June 3
is the 154th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (155th in
leap years), with 211 days remaining.
*
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.
*
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 - The
Pope 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, DC (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 at
Cold Harbor, Virginia.
*
1866 -
Fenians are driven out of
Fort Erie, Ontario, into the
United States to a heroes' welcome.
*
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 was established by
Librada Avelino and
Carmen de Luna in
Manila,
Philippines.
*
1916 - The
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 beats up everyone perceived to be
Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot (see
Zoot Suit Riots).
*
1956 -
British Rail renamed '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 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from
Paris, killing 130.
*
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 an
NASA crew.
* 1965 - For 21 minutes,
Edward H. White floats free outside the
space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
*
1968 -
Valerie Solanas, author of
The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate
Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
*
1969 - 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.
*
1977 -
Reggae stars
Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album
Exodus, which would be named
Time magazine's "
Album of the Century" in
1999.
*
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. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional
oil spill ever.
*
1982 - The
Israeli ambassador to
Britain,
Shlomo Argov, is shot on a
London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
*
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
Kyushu killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
*
1992 - The
Mabo Decision is handed down, changing
Australian Aboriginal land rights forever.
*
1997 -
Lionel Jospin becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
*
1998 -
Eschede train disaster: an
ICE high speed train derails in
Lower Saxony,
Germany, causing 101 deaths.
*
2002 - The peak day of
Golden Jubilee celebrations occurs in the
United Kingdom.
*
2006 - The union of
Serbia and Montenegro came to an end with
Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
*
1540 - Archduke
Charles II of Austria (d.
1590)
*
1635 -
Philippe Quinault, French writer (d.
1688)
*
1659 -
David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d.
1708)
*
1723 -
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (d.
1788)
*
1726 O.S. -
James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d.
1797)
*
1770 -
Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (d.
1820)
*
1808 -
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d.
1889)
*
1818 -
Louis Faidherbe, French general (d.
1889)
*
1832 -
Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d.
1918)
*
1843 - King
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 - King
George V of the United Kingdom (d.
1936)
*
1866 -
George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d.
1952)
*
1873 -
Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (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, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1972)
*
1901 -
Maurice Evans, English actor (d.
1989)
*
1903 -
Eddie Acuff, American actor (d.
1956)
*
1904 -
Jan Peerce, American tenor (d.
1984)
*
1906 -
Josephine Baker, American dancer, singer, and actress (d.
1975)
*
1911 -
Ellen Corby, American actress (d.
1999)
* 1911 -
Paulette Goddard, American actress (d.
1990)
*
1913 -
Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d.
2000)
*
1918 -
Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d.
1999)
*
1921 -
Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
*
1922 -
Alain Resnais, French director
*
1924 -
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d.
1991)
* 1924 -
Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine* 1924 -
Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d.
1997)
*
1925 -
Tony Curtis, American actor
*
1926 -
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d.
1997)
* 1926 -
Boots Randolph, American musician
*
1929 -
Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine* 1929 -
Chuck Barris, American game show host, producer, and self-purported spy
*
1930 -
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d.
1999)
*
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
*
1939 -
Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
* 1939 -
Ian Hunter, English musician (
Mott the Hoople)
*
1942 -
Curtis Mayfield, American songwriter and musician (d.
1999)
*
1943 -
Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
*
1944 -
Edith McGuire, American runner
*
1946 -
Eddie Holman, American singer
* 1946 -
Michael Clarke (musician), American drummer (
The Byrds) (d.
1993)
*
1950 -
Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
* 1950 -
Deniece Williams, American singer and songwriter
* 1950 -
Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
*
1952 -
Billy Powell, American keyboardist (
Lynyrd Skynyrd)
*
1954 -
Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
*
1956 -
Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
*
1957 -
Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
*
1961 -
Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
*
1963 -
Doro Pesch, German singer (
Doro, ex-
Warlock)
* 1963 -
Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
*
1964 -
Kerry King, American musician (
Slayer)
*
1965 -
Kurt von Finck, American open source advocate
* 1965 -
Mike Gordon, American musician (
Phish), filmmaker
*
1966 -
Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
*
1967 -
Anderson Cooper, American reporter
*
1968 -
Jamie O'Neal, American singer
* 1968 -
Saffron, Nigerian singer (
Republica)
*
1969 -
Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer, and writer
*
1970 -
Esther Hart, Dutch singer
* 1970 -
Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
*
1971 -
Carl Everett, American baseball player
*
1973 -
Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
*
1974 -
Anthony "Krayzie Bone" Henderson, American rapper (
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
* 1974 -
Kelly Jones, Welsh singer
*
1975 -
Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
*
1976 -
Jamie McMurray, American
NASCAR driver
* 1976 -
Yuri Ruley, American drummer (
MxPx)
*
1977 -
Cris, Brazilian footballer
* 1977 -
Travis Hafner, American baseball player
*
1982 -
Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
*
1985 -
Corey "Slick'em" Mathis, American singer (
Pretty Ricky)
*
1986 -
Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
*
1987 -
Lalaine, American actress
* 1987 -
Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
*
1990 -
Young Leek, American rapper
*
2006 -
Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, member of the
Dutch Royal Family*
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)
*
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)
*
1818 -
Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia.
*
1826 -
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b.
1766)
*
1858 -
Julius Reubke, German composer (b.
1834)
*
1861 -
Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b.
1813)
*
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
*
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.
1900)
*
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)
*
1992 -
Robert Morley, English actor (b.
1908)
*
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)
*
2005 -
Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b.
1945)
*
2006 -
Johnny Grande, Original accordian/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. (1932)
*
Roman Empire - Festival to
Bellona.
Liturgical Feast days
*
Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions,
Martyrs of Uganda.
*
Saint Kevin Bokelmann.
*
Saint Clothilde (died 545)
* Blessed
Pope John XXIII*
Saint Paula (died 273)
*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
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