June 3
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June 3 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining after June 3 until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Philippi in Virginia.
- 1889 – The Transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
- 1937 – Almost 6 months after his abdication as King, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marries Wallis Simpson.
- 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends, as Allied forces retreat.
- 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
- 1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It is the first successful ascent of a mountain higher than 8000 metres.
- 1962 – A Boeing 707 plane crashes near Paris, killing 130 people.
- 1973 – The Supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 plane crashes in France, killing 14 people.
- 1979 – The Ixtoc I oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst-ever oil spills.
- 1984 – The Indian government's Operation Blue Star military offensive begins at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
- 1989 – The crushing of protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing begins. Hundreds of people are killed.
- 1989 – Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
- 1991 – Mount Unzen on Kyushu, Japan, erupts, killing 43 people, all of them researchers or journalists.
- 1998 – A major train derailment occurs in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
- 2006 – Montenegro becomes independent.
[change] Births
- 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general (d. 1820)
- 1808 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
- 1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1843 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1844 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
- 1865 – King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
- 1872 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1919)
- 1873 – Otto Loewi, German doctor, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
- 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
- 1899 – Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian physicist and physiologist (d. 1972)
- 1904 – Charles Drew, American surgeon (d. 1950)
- 1906 – Josephine Baker, American-born dancer (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
- 1931 – Raul Castro, President of Cuba
- 1939 – Ian Hunter, English musician
- 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician
- 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American rock musician
- 1952 – Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
- 1956 – George Burley, Scottish football manager
- 1962 – Susannah Constantine, English television presenter
- 1965 – Michael Moore, British politician
- 1965 – James Purefoy, British actor
- 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American broadcast journalist
- 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
- 1980 – Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
- 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
- 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
- 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
- 1987 – Lalaine, American actress
- 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
[change] Deaths
- 1411 – Leopold IV, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
- 1826 – Nikolai 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, 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 (b. 1902)
- 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
- 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
- 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
- 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
- 1977 – Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22, 1949)
- 1991 – Katia and Maurice Krafft, French volcanologists (b. 1942/1946)
- 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
- 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (b. 1945)
- 2009 – Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
- 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
- 2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician and assisted suicide activist (b. 1928)
- 2011 – James Arness, American actor (b. 1923)
