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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

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Weird history on June 2

1692 First ever
Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she is found guilty the same day and hanged on June 10.
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1979 First ever
Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
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1780 Oddly true
The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1903

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas), June 2, 1903, (LAST EDITION)

Page 8 · mentions "bizarre" · printed on this very day

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Image and text from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site.

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