June 3

June 3 in recent years

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2023 (Saturday)

2022 (Friday)

2021 (Thursday)

2020 (Wednesday)

2019 (Monday)

2018 (Sunday)

2017 (Saturday)

2016 (Friday)

2015 (Wednesday)

June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 211 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1140 – French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 – Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1539 – Hernando de Soto 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 in 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.
• 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
• 1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
• 1885 – In the 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 transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
• 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.
• 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1932 – Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
• 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.
• 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
• 1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
• 1950 – First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna is summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal
• 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
• 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
• 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.
• 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 3,000,000 barrels of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.
• 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
• 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
• 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
• 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.

Births

• 1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
• 1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
• 1636 – John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)
• 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)
• 1840 – Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
• 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 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
• 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)
• 1900 – Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
• 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Charles R. Drew, American surgeon,(d. 1950)
• 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
• 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 stripper (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
• 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director
• 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
• 1924 – M. Karunanidhi, Indian Politician
• 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 (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
• 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 producer
• 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
• 1935 – Irma P. Hall, American actress
• 1936 – Jim Gentile, baseball player
• 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American author
• 1937 – Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
• 1937 – Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1938 – David L. Mills, American computer engineer
• 1939 – Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
• 1939 – Ian Hunter, English musician
• 1939 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist
• 1940 – Connie Saylor, American racecar driver (d. 1993)
• 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
• 1943 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian film composer
• 1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
• 1944 – Edith McGuire, American runner
• 1944 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
• 1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
• 1945 – Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
• 1945 – Bill Paterson, British actor
• 1946 – Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Eddie Holman, American singer
• 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
• 1946 – Penelope Wilton, British actress
• 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
• 1949 – Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer
• 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) (d. 2009)
• 1952 – David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
• 1953 – John Moulder Brown, English actor
• 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
• 1956 – Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)
• 1957 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1958 – Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
• 1959 – John Carlson, American talk radio host
• 1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
• 1961 – Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
• 1962 – Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
• 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
• 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
• 1964 – Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
• 1964 – James Purefoy, British actor
• 1965 – Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)
• 1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
• 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
• 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
• 1967 – Jason Jones, Canadian actor
• 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 – Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
• 1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
• 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
• 1971 – John Hodgman, American author and humorist
• 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
• 1974 – Arianne Zucker, American actress
• 1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 – Nikos Hatzis, Greek basketball player
• 1976 – Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
• 1976 – Jamie McMurray, American racecar driver
• 1976 – Yuri Ruley, American drummer
• 1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
• 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
• 1978 – Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and songwriter
• 1980 – Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1981 – Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
• 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer
• 1983 – Janine Habeck, German model
• 1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model
• 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
• 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
• 1986 – Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
• 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
• 1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
• 1987 – Lalaine, American actress
• 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Michelle Keegan, British actress
• 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
• 1989 – Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer
• 2006 – Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch royal family

Deaths

• 800 – Staurakios, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
• 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 von Lingenthal, 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, American wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (b. 1875)
• 1955 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
• 1963 – Nâzım 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, Pakistani actor
• 1986 – Anna Neagle, British actress (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)
• 1989 – John McCauley, hockey 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 (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (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 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
• 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)
• 2009 – Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
• 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician (b. 1928)
• 2010 – John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, right-to-die activist (b. 1928)
• 2011 – James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Charles Lwanga and Companions
  • Clotilde
  • Kevin of Glendalough
  • Ovidius
  • Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox)
  • June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee)
• Economist day (Buenos Aires)
• Festival to Bellona (Roman Empire)
• Mabo Day (Australia)
• Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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