June 2

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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on June 2.

Events

• 1969 – Boards of Supervisors in Greene County, Madison County, and Orange County adopt concurrent resolution to create the Rapidan Service Authority
• 2011 – Chairwoman of the Jefferson Area Tea Party holds press conference to express concern that some sustainability initiatives constitute a "radical political agenda that strives to impose big government-style central planning under the guise of well-intentioned environmentalism."
• 2022 – Construction officially begins on the Football Operations Center as part of the second phase of the Athletics Master Plan.
• 2023 – UVA Board of Visitors endorses name of Virginia Guesthouse for the new hotel and convention center

Births

• 1800 – Nicholas Trist is born in Charlottesville. The husband of Virginia Jefferson Randolph (Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter) and a former owner of the Virginia Advocate newspaper, Trist later served as a diplomat and negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 at the end of the Mexican–American War, greatly expanding the size of the continental United States.
• 1813 – Future UVA Profesor John B. Minor is born.
• 1913 – Alice Jackson is born in Richmond to Dr. James E. Jackson and Clara Louise Kersey. A life-long educator at various Black colleges throughout the country, Jackson became the first Black applicant to the University of Virginia in August of 1935 (her application was denied on the basis of race and "other good and sufficient reasons," according to a contemporary issue of the Richmond-Times Dispatch).

Deaths

• 1983 – E. Wells Bunyea, a one-time announcer on WINA who had been the subject of a Frances Brand painting