Template:On this day/June 2

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

June 2:

• 1781 – Thomas Jefferson’s term as Governor ended but the Assembly had not yet had an opportunity to choose a replacement. In the confusion and disruption of normal government activity, the Assembly was unable to elect a new Governor, and so the state remained leaderless for almost a week.
• 1800 – Nicholas Trist, lawyer, diplomat, planter, and businessman, was born in Charlottesville. He negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 at the end of the Mexican–American War.
• 1913 – Alice Jackson, the first African American to apply to the University of Virginia, was born in Richmond.
• 1917 – Charles E. Moran, Clerk of the Corporation Court, named Miss Lizzie A. Flannagan as his Deputy - the first women appointed under the authority given by statue adopted at the 1916 session of the Virginia Legislature.