Updated 06/02/2009 12:01 AM
June 2nd In NYC History
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On this date in...
1874...President Grant lays the cornerstone for the Museum of Natural History on West 77th Street.
1941...Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at age 37 of the muscular disease that now bears his name.