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On This Day 2nd June - Hedgehog - 06-03-2009 455: Rome is captured and brutally sacked by Geiseric the Vandal. 1780: The six-day-long Gordon Riots, named after anti-Catholic agitator Lord George Gordon, begin in London. 1953: Elizabeth II is crowned queen in Westminster Abbey, London.