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June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (155th in
leap years ), with 211 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
4.1 Liturgical Feast days
5 Fictional 6 External links
Events 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 - 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 ).
1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchie Bridge , according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe Bobbie Gentry , and the movie which followed.
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.
1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia , killing 101.
1965 - Launch of Gemini 4 ,NASA crew.
1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV 1968 - Valerie Solanas , author of The SCUM Manifesto 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 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.
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 Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1992 - The Mabo Decision is handed down, recognising the land rights of Australian Aborigines .
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.
2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro 's formal declaration of independence.
2006 - Canada conducts largest domestic anti-terrorism operation, arresting 17 suspected of planning attacks in Ontario.
Births 1540 - 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 naturalist (d. 1788 )
1726 - James Hutton , Scottish geologist (d. 1797 )
1770 - Manuel Belgrano , Argentine politician (d. 1820 )
1808 - Jefferson Davis , 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 )
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 )
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 - 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 )
1926 - Boots Randolph , American musician
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 )
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 (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 - Eddie Holman , American singer
1946 - Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993 )
1950 - Melissa Mathison , American screenwriter
1950 - Deniece Williams , American singer
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
1963 - Rudy Demotte , Belgian politician
1964 - Kerry King , American musician (Slayer )
1964 - James Purefoy , British actor
1965 - Mike Gordon , American musician
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
1970 - Esther Hart , Dutch singer
1970 - Julie Masse , French Canadian singer
1970 - Peter Tägtgren , Swedish musician (Hypocrisy ) and producer
1971 - Carl Everett , American baseball player
1974 - Kelly Jones , Welsh singer (Stereophonics )
1975 - Jose Molina , Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 - Jamie McMurray , American NASCAR driver
1976 - Yuri Ruley , American drummer
1977 - Cris , Brazilian footballer
1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim , American football player
1977 - Travis Hafner , American baseball player
1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos , Greek basketball player
1981 - Danielle DiLorenzo , American Survivor contestant
1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva , Russian pole vaulter
1985 - Pretty Ricky , American singer
1986 - Rafael Nadal , Spanish tennis player
1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou , Greek archer
1987 - Lalaine , American actress and singer.
1987 - Masami Nagasawa , Japanese actress
2006 - Countess Leonore , Member of the Dutch Royal Family
Deaths 1235 - Charle Edwin Shottzburger, French Noble
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 (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. 1900 )
1989 - John McCauley , NHL official
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 accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932 )
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