On This Day: Thursday June 2, 2005 This is the 153rd day of the year, with 212 days remaining in 2005. Holidays Feast day of St Erasmus, St Oda, St Attalus, Saints Marcellinus and Peter, St Eugenius I, pope, St Nicholas the Pilgrim, St Stephen of Sweden, and St Pothinus and his Companions. Belgium: Procession of the Golden Chariot. Bhutan: Coronation Day. Bulgaria: Hristo Botev Day. Italy: Republic Day. UK: Coronation Day of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Events 1774 - The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, is reenacted. 1851 - Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol. 1865 - Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signed the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators, marking the end of the Civil War. 1896 - Great Britain granted Guglielmo Marconi the first wireless radio patent. 1924 - Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the US. 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. 1966 - The US space probe Surveyor I landed on the Moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. 1987 - President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Births 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French nobleman and writer. 1840 - Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist. 1890 - Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), gossip columnist, radio commentator, actress. 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, actor.