Alexandru Nicolschi Born, Belgrade Declaration Inked, Red Poland

On This Progressive Day: June 2

The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries (1955)

Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country (1979)

The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan in its first voyage to another planet (2003)

President B. Hussein Obama hosts a concert at The White House honoring Sir Paul McCartney (2010)

b: Alexandru Nicolschi (1915), Cornel West (1953); d: Karl Brandt (1948), Karl Gebhardt (1948), Melita Norwood (2005)

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