Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 3
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This is a list of selected June 3 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic.
- 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1937 – Months after he abdicated the British throne, Edward, The Duke of Windsor married American socialite Wallis Simpson (pictured) in a private ceremony near Tours, France, a wedding opposed by the Church of England because Simpson was a divorcée with a living ex-spouse.
- 1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its landmark legal decision in Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines.
- 2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro.
