On June 2, 1774, Britain’s Parliament passed the Quartering Act, the last of the Coercive Acts, meant to punish the American colonies and reassert British control. Eventually, the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution would prohibit the forcible quartering of soldiers in private homes.
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commanding forces west of the Mississippi, surrendered on June 2, 1865, and this date is generally considered the end of the Civil War.
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on June 2, 1953.
On June 2, 1962, Georgia-born Ray Charles hit #1 on the charts with “I Can’t Stop Loving You.”
On June 2, 1989, Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams, was released in theaters.
Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections
DeKalb County’s recount of District Commission 2 appears to produce different results, according to the AJC.
The results announced Wednesday evening — more than a week after election day and two days after the manual count was completed — showed Michelle Long Spears leading the way in the race for the District 2 commission seat, with Lauren Alexander finishing second.
If the results stand, those two would be in a position for a runoff later this month.
Marshall Orson, a longtime DeKalb school board member looking make the transition to the county government, would be in third place and out of the running.
That would be a dramatic departure from the preliminary results first reported in the race to represent the district that covers parts of the Decatur, Brookhaven and Atlanta areas in northwest DeKalb.
Results posted the morning after the May 24 Democratic primary showed that none of the candidates had eclipsed the 50% mark to avoid a June 21 runoff election. Orson and Alexander were at the time reported as the top two vote-getters, with Spears on the outside looking in.
Orson, who would be out of the runoff if the updated results stand, said he and his team were reviewing the new data but there were “serious questions as to the administration of the election and the administration of the results.”
“The idea that problems related to the programming of the voting machines and the calculation of votes could not ultimately taint every aspect of the process, including the production of paper ballots, defies belief,” he said in a statement provided to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We will continue to review our options, keeping at the forefront that any decision should work to foster the integrity and trustworthiness of our electoral process.”
Delta Air Lines says fuel prices are driving higher fates, according to the AJC.
Delta Air Lines says its air fares are 25-30% higher this summer on average compared with 2019, the year before the pandemic, as high fuel prices and strong demand drive up the cost of flying.
Ed Bastian, the CEO of Atlanta-based Delta, cited the figures during an investor conference Wednesday, adding that “we’ve never seen anything of that scale.”
Delta, like other airlines, is battling inflation, soaring fuel costs and labor shortages, amid robust demand for travel as people are more willing to take vacations and travel for business after two years of pandemic-depressed demand. The Consumer Price Index for airline fares rose 33.3% over the last year, the largest such increase since 1980, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report in May.
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