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What happened in history on this day: June 3?
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- 1098 - Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey.
- 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands".
- 1761 - Birth of Henry Scrapnel English inventor (shrapnel shell).
- 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California.
- 1780 - Birth of William Hone in England; author/bookseller (The Every-Day Book).
- 1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack.
- 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada).
- 1804 - Birth of Richard Cobden; founder Anti-Corn-Law League.
- 1808 - Birth of Jefferson Davis in Kentucky, USA; President of Confederate States of America (1861-65).
- 1810 - Birth of Robert Mallet in Dublin, Ireland; engineer, inventor of the word seismology, considered the first seismologist.
- 1833 - Antonio López de Santa Anna resigns (1st time) as President of Mexico.
- 1844 - Birth of Garret Augustus Hobart; 24th US Vice President (Republican, 1897-99).
- 1847 - The first US postage stamps are delivered to the post Office Department in Washington DC.
- 1861 - First land battle of the War Between the States: USA defeats Confederacy at Philippi, Virginia.
- 1864 - Birth of Ransom Eli Olds; auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer.
- 1865 - Birth of George Frederick Ernest Albert in Marlborough House, London, United Kingdom; King George V of England (1910-36).
- 1875 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #144 Vibilia and #145 Adeona.
- 1877 - Birth of Raoul Dufy in France; Fauvist painter (The Palm).
- 1881 - Japanese giant salamander dies in Dutch zoo at age 55; oldest amphibian.
- 1882 - Birth of Saly Mayer in Switzerland; dragged out negitiations with German SS from August 1944 to February 1945 for release of Jews, resulting saving about 230,000 from death.
- 1888 - Casey at the Bat is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 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.
- 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
- 1900 - Birth of Gordon Sinclair in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; journalist (Toronto Star, "Let's Be Personal" on CFRB), panelist (Front Page Challenge).
- 1901 - Birth of Maurice Evans in Dorchester, England; actor (Maurice - Bewitched).
- 1904 - Birth of Charles Drew in Washington DC, USA; pioneer of blood plasma preservation, first director of the Red Cross blood bank.
- 1904 - Birth of Jan Peerce [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth] in New York City, New York, USA; tenor (New York Metropolitan Opera).
- 1906 - Birth of Josephine Baker; dancer/singer/Parisian night club owner.
- 1911 - Birth of Dr Mason Gross; TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money).
- 1911 - Birth of Olaf Okern in Norway; Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948).
- 1911 - Birth of Paulette Goddard [Marion Levy] in Switzerland; actress (The Great Dictator).
- 1913 - Birth of Ellen Corby in Racine, Wisconsin, USA; actress (Grandma Walton - The Waltons).
- 1916 - Reserve Officers' Training Corps is established by Act of US Congress.
- 1918 - US Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional.
- 1921 - A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA.
- 1922 - Birth of Alain Resnais in France; director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour).
- 1924 - Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service.
- 1924 - Birth of Colleen Dewhurst in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; actress (Between Two Women (Emmy Award 1986), Those She Left Behind (Emmy Award 1989), Murphy Brown (Emmy Award 1991), Maggie Geyser - The Blue and the Gray, Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea), president of Actor's Equity (1985-1991).
- 1925 - Birth of Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz] in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze, Hollywood Babylon, McCoy, The Persuaders).
- 1925 - Goodyear airship Pilgrim makes first flight (first with enclosed cabin).
- 1926 - Birth of Allen Ginsberg; beat poet (Howl) (dies 1997).
- 1926 - Birth of Colleen Dewhurst in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; actress (Maggie - Blue and Grey).
- 1929 - Birth of Chuck Barris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; TV game show producer/host (The Gong Show).
- 1929 - Border dispute between Peru and Chile resolved.
- 1931 - Birth of Raúl Castro; President of Cuba.
- 1932 - Birth of Dakota Staton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; jazz and blues singer ("The Late Late Show", "Crazy He Calls Me", "Time to Swing").
- 1932 - Lou Gehrig hits four consecutive home runs; New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Athletics 20-13.
- 1933 - Philadelphia Athletics score 11 runs in 2nd inning, New York Yankees score 10 in 5th and win 17-11.
- 1933 - Pope Pius XI encyclical On oppression of the Church in Spain.
- 1933 - William Muldoon, US boxing commissioner, dies at age 88.
- 1934 - Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted.
- 1935 - French passenger liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours.
- 1935 - Birth of Irma P. Hall; actress (Soul Food, All Souls).
- 1937 - Duke Edward of Windsor and Wallis Warfield marry at the Château de Candé in France's Loire Valley.
- 1939 - British Winston Churchill writes in Collier's magazine: "Unless some change of heart or change of regime takes place in Germany she will deem it in her interest to make war, and this is more likely to happen in the present year than later on."
- 1940 - Italian constitution incorporates Albania as part of Italian Empire.
- 1942 - Birth of Curtis Mayfield in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer, writer, producer, record company owner (the Impressions - "For Your Precious Love" (1958), "It's All Right" (1963), "Freddie's Dead", "Superfly").
- 1943 - Birth of Billy Cunningham; NBA/ABA (Philadelphia 76ers, Carolina Cougers).
- 1944 - Birth of Michael Clarke; drummer (The Byrds).
- 1945 - Birth of Hale Irwin; PGA golfer (US Open 1974, 1979).
- 1946 - Birth of Ian Hunter in England; rocker (Mott the Hoople - "All the Young Dudes").
- 1946 - Birth of Tristan Rogers in Australia; actor (Robert Scorpio - General Hospital).
- 1946 - Hungary issues the world's largest denomination paper money note, 100 million-billion pengo (100,000,000,000,000,000 pengo).
- 1948 - Birth of Too Slim; bassist (Riders in the Sky).
- 1948 - 200-inch (5.08m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory.
- 1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore.
- 1949 - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America, dies at age 79.
- 1949 - Dragnet is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
- 1949 - The last episode of comedy variety program The Admiral Broadway Revue is broadcast, after only 7 episodes.
- 1950 - Birth of Suzi Quatro in Detroit, Michigan, USA; singer ("Stumblin' In") / actress (Happy Days).
- 1951 - Birth of Deniece Williams; singer ("Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait").
- 1952 - Birth of Billy Powell; keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd - "That Smell", "Freebird").
- 1956 - Birth of Suren Nalbandyan in the USSR; lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976).
- 1958 - Birth of Scott Valentine; actor (Nick - Family Ties, My Demon Lover, Black Scorpion).
- 1959 - First US Air Force Academy graduation.
- 1962 - Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130.
- 1963 - Death of Paul Maxey of a heart attack at age 57; actor (Matt - Lassie TV show, Mayor - The People's Choice).
- 1963 - Pope John XXIII dies at age 81.
- 1964 - Birth of Kerry King; guitarist (Slayer).
- 1965 - Gemini 4 launched; second US two-man flight (McDivitt and White).
- 1965 - US President Lyndon Johnson proposes to Congress to authorize replacing silver in circulation coins with cheaper base metals.
- 1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US two-man flight (Stafford and Cernan).
- 1968 - New York Yankees turn 21st triple-play in their history, but lose 4-3 to Minnesota Twins.
- 1969 - NBC airs the final episode of TV show Star Trek.
- 1971 - Chicago Cubs' Ken Holtzman second no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 1-0.
- 1971 - Birth of Ariel and Gabriel Hernandez; twin singers (No Mercy).
- 1972 - New York Yankees score eight times in 13th beating Chicago White Sox 18-10.
- 1975 - Death of Ozzie Nelson of liver cancer at age 69; bandleader/actor/producer (Red Skelton Show on radio, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet TV and radio show).
- 1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta.
- 1977 - Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 versus Kansas City Royals).
- 1978 - The Congo Republic recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
- 1979 - The Mexican Ixtoc I exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico (80km northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche) explodes, spilling an estimated 530 million litres of oil.
- 1979 - General elections are held in Italy.
- 1979 - Death of Arno Schmidt in Celle, Germany; novelist (Die Gelehrtenrepublik 1957, Nobodaddys Kinder 1963, Abend mit Goldrand 1975).
- 1980 - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35.
- 1980 - ESPN begins televising college World Series games.
- 1980 - U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination. Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination as US President.
- 1980 - A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and injuring over 250.
- 1981 - Dr Carleton Coon, anthropology professor (What in the World), dies at age 76.
- 1981 - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life.
- 1983 - MGM releases the film WarGames to theaters.
- 1984 - Patty Shoehan wins LPGA by a record 10 strokes.
- 1984 - At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show, the Amiga Corporation demonstrates a graphics-oriented computer code-named "Lorraine".
- 1986 - E F Helin discovers asteroid #3767.
- 1986 - Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine - Woman to Remember), dies at age 42.
- 1987 - Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros tie Baltimore Orioles' and Texas Rangers' record of three grand slams in a game.
- 1987 - Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at age 54.
- 1987 - Birth of Lalaine Dupree; actress (Lizzie McGuire).
- 1988 - Fox releases the film Big to theaters.
- 1989 - Chinese troops kill hundreds of pro-democracy students in Beijing.
- 1989 - Houston Astros beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09).
- 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran, dies at age 86 of internal bleeding (born 1900).
- 1990 - Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founded Intel, dies (born 1927).
- 1990 - Death of Stiv Bators; American singer (The Dead Boys) (born 1949).
- 1991 - Death of Eva LeGallienne of a heart attack at age 92; actress (Dupont Show of the Month TV show, Hallmark Hall of Fame TV show, Ford Theatre Hour TV show, Playhouse 90 TV show, Studio One TV show, St. Elsewhere TV show).
- 1991 - In Japan, Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
- 1991 - Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mount Unzen Volcano in Japan.
- 1991 - Death of Maurice Krafft, (born 1946) and Katia Krafft (born 1942), volcanologists.
- 1991 - Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son of Los Angeles Dodgers' manager, dies of pneumonia at age 33.
- 1993 - British tanker British Trent collides with Panamanian bulk carrier Western Winner in thick fog, spilling 4.8 million litres of gasoline which ignites, killing seven British crewmen.
- 1998 - A German Federal Railway InterCityExpress high-speed train derails between Hannover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths and 88 injuries. The train, ICE 884 "Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen", was traveling at 200 kilometres per hour when a wheel broke and it derailed and crashed into a bridge.
- 2002 - The "Party in the Palace" takes place at Buckingham Palace, London for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
- 2004 - All outgoing flights from the United Kingdom are temporarily grounded following an air traffic control computer failure.
- 2004 - Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet tenders his resignation, citing "personal reasons". John E. McLaughlin, US Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director, becomes the acting Director until a permanent Director is chosen and confirmed by Congress.
- 2006 - Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum.
- 2006 - In Ontario, Canada, seventeen men are arrested in the Greater Toronto Area for alleged ties to a terrorist plot to blow up targets in the region.
- 2006 - Birth of Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, daughter of Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands.
- 2007 - The Valley of Geysers in Russia is destroyed by a mudflow.
- 2008 - US Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama wins the support of a group of uncommitted delegates, giving him more than the required 2118 to win the party's nomination.
- 2009 - Death of David Carradine at age 72; American actor ((Kwai Chang Caine - Kung Fu TV show, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Kill Bill). Carradine was found hanging naked by a rope in a hotel closet in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2010 - US actress Rue McClanahan (Blanche - The Golden Girls, Golden Palace) dies following a stroke at age 76.
- 2010 - A fire caused by the explosion of an electrical transformer in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka kills more than 116 people, as flames quickly spread to at least six apartment buildings and about 15 stores.
- 2010 - Six astronauts are sealed in a container in Moscow, Russia, to begin a 520-day simulated round-trip to Mars and back, in an experiment to test how isolation affects people.
- 2017 - An Islamic terror attack on London Bridge, United Kingdom kills 8 and injures 48.
- 2018 - At least 109 people are killed and hundreds wounded by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala's deadliest volcano for over a century.
- 2019 - More than 100 people are killed when Sudanese troops and Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a protest camp outside of a military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.
- 2019 - (to June 5) U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the United Kingdom, meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. Trump also attends D-Day commemorative ceremonies.
- 2020 - SpaceX successfully launches and deploys 60 Starlink satellites into a low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, bringing the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to 482.
- 2020 - Russian President Vladimir Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil leaked into the Ambarnaya River near the Siberian city of Norilsk within the Arctic Circle on May 26.
- 2021 - Death of Sir Anerood Jugnauth, 2nd Prime Minister and 4th President of Mauritius (born 1930).
- 2022 - Death of Ann Turner Cook at age 95 at home in Saint Petersburg, Florida; novelist, teacher, face of Gerber baby foods for over 90 years.
- 2023 - Death of Jim Hines at age 76; sprinter (two Olympic gold medals first to run 100 metres in under 10 seconds).
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