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June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of the year.
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- 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
- 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
- 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
- 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
- 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
- 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
- 1658 - Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
- 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
- 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed).
- 1850 - The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas".
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
- 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
- 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
- 1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
- 1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.
- 1907 - Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
- 1916 - The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
- 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
- 1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
- 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
- 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
- 1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
- 1956 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
- 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashed after aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130. The largest single plane accident to date.
- 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
- 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk (EVA).
- 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
- 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- 1969 - Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
- 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
- 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
- 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
- 1984 - The Indian National Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
- 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
- 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
- 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
- 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
- 2008 - Barack Obama becomes the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, passing the needed number 2,118 delegates and becoming the first African American to win the nomination of any major political party.
[edit] Births
- 1540 - Charles I of Austria (d. 1590)
- 1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
- 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
- 1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
- 1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- 1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
- 1808 - Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
- 1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
- 1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
- 1832 - Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1844 - Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
- 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
- 1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
- 1864 - Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
- 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
- 1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
- 1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
- 1873 - Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
- 1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
- 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
- 1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
- 1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
- 1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
- 1899 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
- 1901 - Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
- 1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1904 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
- 1905 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by execution)
- 1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
- 1907 - Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
- 1911 - Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1911 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
- 1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1918 - Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
- 1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
- 1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
- 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
- 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
- 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
- 1927 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
- 1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1929 - Chuck Barris, American game show host
- 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
- 1931 - Françoise Arnoul, French actress
- 1931 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
- 1931 - John Norman, American author
- 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
- 1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
- 1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
- 1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
- 1936 - Larry McMurtry, American author
- 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
- 1937 - Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
- 1939 - Ian Hunter (singer), English musician
- 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
- 1944 - Edith McGuire, American runner
- 1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
- 1946 - Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993)
- 1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
- 1946 - Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
- 1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
- 1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
- 1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
- 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
- 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
- 1950 - Christos Verelis, Greek politician
- 1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
- 1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1952 - David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
- 1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1954 - Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
- 1956 - Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
- 1956 - George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
- 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
- 1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
- 1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
- 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
- 1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
- 1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
- 1964 - Doro Pesch, German singer
- 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
- 1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician
- 1965 - Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
- 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
- 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
- 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer
- 1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
- 1969 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
- 1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
- 1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
- 1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
- 1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
- 1970 - Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
- 1971 - Carl Everett, American baseball player
- 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
- 1974 - Arianne Zuker, American actress
- 1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
- 1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
- 1976 - Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
- 1977 - Cris, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
- 1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player
- 1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1980 - Olusheyi Banjo, American gospel singer,writer
- 1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
- 1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
- 1986 - Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
- 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
- 1986 - Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
- 1986 - Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
- 1986 - Al Horford, American basketball player
- 1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer
- 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
- 2002 - Prince Tirso of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
- 2006 - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family
[edit] Deaths
- 1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
- 1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
- 1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
- 1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
- 1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
- 1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
- 1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
- 1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
- 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
- 1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
- 1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
- 1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
- 1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
- 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
- 1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
- 1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
- 1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
- 1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
- 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
- 1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- 1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
- 1933 - William Muldoon, wrestler (b. 1852)
- 1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
- 1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
- 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- 1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
- 1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
- 1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
- 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
- 1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
- 1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
- 1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
- 1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
- 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1902)
- 1989 - John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
- 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
- 1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
- 1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
- 1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)
- 1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
- 1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
- 1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
- 2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- 2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
- 2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
- 2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
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