June 3: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining.

Events

• 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
• 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is 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 - 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.
• 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. General Mola is killed in a plane crash.
• 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 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot (see Zoot Suit Riots).
• 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 space mission by an NASA crew.
• 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
• 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
• 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 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.
• 1973 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which will be named 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. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
• 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1991 - 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 in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
• 2002 - The peak day of Golden Jubilee celebrations occurs in the United Kingdom.

• 1540 - Archduke 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 physician and naturalist (d. 1788)
• 1726 O.S. - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
• 1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (d. 1820)
• 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
• 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
• 1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
• 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
• 1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
• 1873 - Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
• 1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
• 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
• 1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
• 1899 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (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, singer, and actress (d. 1975)
• 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)
• 1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
• 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
• 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
• 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
• 1926 - Boots Randolph, American musician
• 1929 - Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1929 - Chuck Barris, American game show host, producer, and purported spy
• 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
• 1931 - John Norman, American author
• 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
• 1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
• 1936 - Larry McMurtry, American author
• 1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
• 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
• 1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
• 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, American songwriter and musician (d. 1999)
• 1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
• 1944 - Edith McGuire, American runner
• 1946 - Ian Hunter, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
• 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
• 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
• 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
• 1961 - Scott Byrne, American drummer (Instant Death) (d. 2005)
• 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
• 1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
• 1965 - Kurt von Finck, American open source advocate
• 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
• 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
• 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer
• 1968 - Saffron, Nigerian singer (Republica)
• 1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
• 1972 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer
• 1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer (MxPx)
• 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1987 - Lalaine, American actress
• 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress

• 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)
• 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)
• 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
• 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• 1924 - Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
• 1928 - Li Yüan-hung， Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)
• 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
• 1991 - Katia Krafft, French vulcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
• 1991 - Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (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)

• Feast day of St Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda
• Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona
• Jefferson Davis Day - Celebration of the birth of Jefferson Davis

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