3 June
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.
- 1140 - French scholar, Peter Abelard found guilty of heresy.
- 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- 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.
- 1665 - English naval forces defeat the Dutch fleet.
- 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).
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Confederate forces attack Union 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.
- 1916 - The ROTC is established by the United States Congress.
- 1916 - The National Defense Act was signed into law, increasing the size of the National Guard by 450,000 men.
- 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.
- 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German tactical victory and with Allied forces in full evacuation.
- 1943 - A mob of 60 members of the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot.
- 1950 - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
- 1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.
- 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.
- 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him thrice.
- 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.
- 1969 - Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the American 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 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.
- 1991 - In an incident at Hankuk University in Seoul, South Korea, students throw eggs at South Korean prime minister Chung Won Shik.
- 1997 - Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
- 1998 - Teen idol Brad Renfro is arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee, charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine.
Births
- 1726 - James Hutton, geologist (d. 1797)
- 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
- 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, poet (d. 1909)
- 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
- 1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
- 1877 - Raoul Dufy, painter (d. 1953)
- 1878 - Barney Oldfield, auto racer (d. 1946)
- 1888 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (d. 1958)
- 1901 - Maurice Evans, actor (d. 1989)
- 1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer, singer and actress (d. 1975)
- 1911 - Paulette Goddard, actress (d. 1990)
- 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, ecdysiast (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Alain Resnais, director
- 1924 - Günther Rühle, journalist, theater director
- 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, scientist, winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1925 - Tony Curtis, actor
- 1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, writer
- 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet (d. 1997)
- 1926 - Boots Randolph, musician
- 1929 - Chuck Barris, game show host, producer, purported spy
- 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author (d. 1999)
- 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
- 1936 - Larry McMurtry, author
- 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, songwriter, musician (d. 1999)
- 1943 - Billy Cunningham, basketball star, executive
- 1944 - Edith McGuire, American sprinter
- 1946 - Ian Hunter, musician ("Mott the Hoople")
- 1950 - Suzi Quatro, musician, actress
- 1987 - Lalaine, actress (Lizzie McGuire)
Deaths
- 1858 - Julius Reubke, composer (b. 1834)
- 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, politician (b. 1813)
- 1875 - Georges Bizet, composer (b. 1838)
- 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
- 1899 - Johann Strauss II, composer (b. 1825)
- 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank under Hitler (b. 1877)
- 1971 - Heinz Hopf, mathematician (b. 1894)
- 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, band leader, producer, director, actor (b. 1906)
- 1977 - Roberto Rossellini, film director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
- 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Robert Morley, actor (b. 1908)
- 2001 - Anthony Quinn, actor (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (b. 1907)
- 2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances
June 2 - June 4 - May 3 - July 3 -- listing of all days
