June 3rd
June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining.
Events
- 1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey
- 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac Quebec Canada.
- 1620 - Building of 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.
- 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
- 1800 - President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern -- the White House was not yet completed)
- 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.
- 1916 - The ROTC is established by the United States Congress
- 1935 - 1,000 unemployed men 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
- 1944 - Charles de Gaulle becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney
- 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 mission by an American crew
- 1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The show premiered on September 8, 1966.
- 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev TU-144 crashed near Goussainville, France killing 14 marking the first crash of a supersonic aircraft
- 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc 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.
- 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation
- 1997 - Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
Births
- 1726 - James Hutton, geologist († 1797)
- 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America († 1889)
- 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, poet († 1909)
- 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, automobile pioneer
- 1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom († 1936)
- 1877 - Raoul Dufy, painter († 1953)
- 1878 - Barney Oldfield, auto racer († 1946)
- 1901 - Maurice Evans, actor († 1989)
- 1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer, singer and actress († 1975)
- 1911 - Paulette Goddard, actress († 1990)
- 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, ecdysiast (†1999)
- 1922 - Alain Resnais, director
- 1924 - Günther Rühle, journalist, theater director
- 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress († 1991)
- 1925 - Tony Curtis, actor
- 1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, writer
- 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet († 1997)
- 1926 - Boots Randolph, musician
- 1929 - Chuck Barris, game show host, producer, purported spy
- 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author († 1999)
- 1936 - Larry McMurtry, author
- 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, songwriter, musician († 1999)
- 1943 - Billy Cunningham, basketball star, executive
- 1946 - Ian Hunter, musician ("Mott the Hoople")
- 1950 - Suzi Quatro, musician, actress
- 1987 - Lalaine, actress
Deaths
- 1858 - Julius Reubke, composer
- 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, politician
- 1875 - Georges Bizet, composer
- 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law
- 1899 - Johann Strauss II, composer
- 1963 - Pope John XXIII
- 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank under Hitler
- 1971 - Heinz Hopf, mathematician
- 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, band leader, producer, director, actor
- 1987 - Andrés Segovia, musician
- 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shi'ite Islamic leader
- 1992 - Robert Morley, actor
- 2001 - Anthony Quinn, actor
- 2003 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor
Holidays and observances
See Also:
June 2 - June 4 - May 3 - July 3 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
Referenced By
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