What happened on June 3? There are more than 275 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 3
June 3 is the 155th day of the year 2024. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 23rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Moselle, Mississippi 39459 sunrise will occur at 05:51 AM and sunset will occur at 07:59 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 240 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 3
- 350Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
- 1140French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
- 1326Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
- 1539Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1608Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- 1620Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
- 1621The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
- 1658Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
- 1665James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- 1839In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
- 1861American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
- 1864American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
- 1866The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
- 1885In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
- 1888The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1889The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 mi between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
- 1889The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
- 1916The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
- 1932Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
- 1935One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
- 1937The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
- 1940World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
- 1940World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
- 1941World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
- 1942World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
- 1943In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
- 1950First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna is summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal
- 1962An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
- 1963A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
- 1963The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
- 1965Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
- 1968Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- 1969Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
- 1973A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
- 1979A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3000000 oilbbl of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
- 1980The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.
- 1982The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
- 1984Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
- 1989The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
- 1991Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
- 1992Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
- 1998Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
- 2006The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.
Who Were Born On June 3?
- 1537John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
- 1540Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
- 1635Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
- 1636John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)
- 1659David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
- 1723Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
- 1726James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- 1770Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
- 1808Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
- 1818Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
- 1819Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
- 1832Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1840Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
- 1843Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1844Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
- 1844Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
- 1853William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
- 1864Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
- 1864Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
- 1865George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
- 1866George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
- 1873Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
- 1877Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
- 1878Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
- 1879Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
- 1879Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
- 1881Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
- 1888Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
- 1899Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
- 1900Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
- 1901Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
- 1901Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (d. 2001)
- 1903Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1904Charles R. Drew, American surgeon,(d. 1950)
- 1904Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
- 1905Martin Gottfried Weiss, German commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)
- 1906Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
- 1906Nate Barragar, American football player (d. 1985)
- 1907Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
- 1910Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1911Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1913Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
- 1917Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1918Lili St. Cyr, American stripper (d. 1999)
- 1918Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
- 1921Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
- 1922Alain Resnais, French director
- 1923Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
- 1924Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
- 1924Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1924M. Karunanidhi, Indian Politician
- 1924Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
- 1924Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1925Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
- 1925Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1926Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
- 1927Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
- 1929Chuck Barris, American game show host
- 1929Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1930Ben Wada, Japanese television producer
- 1930Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
- 1930George Fernandes, Indian politician
- 1930Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
- 1931Françoise Arnoul, French actress
- 1931John Norman, American author
- 1931Lindy Remigino, American athlete
- 1931Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
- 1933Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
- 1934Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
- 1935Irma P. Hall, American actress
- 1936Jim Gentile, baseball player
- 1936Larry McMurtry, American author
- 1937Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1937Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
- 1938David L. Mills, American computer engineer
- 1939Ian Hunter, English musician
- 1939Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist
- 1939Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
- 1940Connie Saylor, American racecar driver (d. 1993)
- 1940Loretta Long, American actress
- 1942Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1943Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
- 1943Ilaiyaraaja, Indian film composer
- 1944Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
- 1944Edith McGuire, American runner
- 1945Bill Paterson, British actor
- 1945Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
- 1945John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
- 1946Eddie Holman, American singer
- 1946Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1946Penelope Wilton, British actress
- 1946Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
- 1947John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
- 1947Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T.Rex) (d. 2003)
- 1947Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
- 1949Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1950Christos Verelis, Greek politician
- 1950Deniece Williams, American singer
- 1950Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
- 1950Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
- 1952Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
- 1952David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
- 1953John Moulder Brown, English actor
- 1954Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1954Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
- 1956Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
- 1956Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)
- 1956George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
- 1957Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
- 1958Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
- 1959John Carlson, American talk radio host
- 1961Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
- 1961Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
- 1961Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
- 1962Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
- 1963Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
- 1963Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
- 1964James Purefoy, British actor
- 1964Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
- 1965Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
- 1965Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)
- 1966Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
- 1967Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
- 1967Jason Jones, Canadian actor
- 1968Jamie O'Neal, American singer
- 1968Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
- 1969Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
- 1969Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
- 1970Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
- 1970Esther Hart, Dutch singer
- 1970Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
- 1970Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
- 1971Carl Everett, American baseball player
- 1971John Hodgman, American author and humorist
- 1974Arianne Zucker, American actress
- 1974Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
- 1975Jeff Soto, American painter
- 1975Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1976Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
- 1976Jamie McMurray, American racecar driver
- 1976Nikos Hatzis, Greek basketball player
- 1976Yuri Ruley, American drummer
- 1977Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
- 1977Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer
- 1977Travis Hafner, American baseball player
- 1978Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and songwriter
- 1980Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1980Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1981Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
- 1981Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
- 1982Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer
- 1982Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
- 1983Janine Habeck, German model
- 1984Emily Scott, Australian model
- 1985Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
- 1986Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
- 1986Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
- 1986Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
- 1986Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
- 1986Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
- 1987Lalaine, American actress
- 1987Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
- 1987Michelle Keegan, British actress
- 1989Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer
- 1989Katie Hoff, American swimmer
- 1992Mario Götze, German footballer
- 2006Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch royal family
Who Died On June 3?
- 800Staurakios, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
- 1395Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
- 1397William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
- 1411Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
- 1548Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
- 1594John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
- 1615Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
- 1640Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
- 1649Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
- 1657William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
- 1659Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
- 1780Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
- 1826Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
- 1858Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
- 1861Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
- 1865Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
- 1875Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
- 1877Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
- 1882Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- 1894Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
- 1899Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
- 1924Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- 1928Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
- 1933William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
- 1946Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (b. 1875)
- 1955Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
- 1963Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
- 1963Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- 1964Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1970Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
- 1971Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
- 1973Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
- 1975Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
- 1975Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
- 1977Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
- 1977Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
- 1983Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Pakistani actor
- 1986Anna Neagle, British actress (b. 1904)
- 1987Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
- 1989Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)
- 1989John McCauley, hockey official (b. 1945)
- 1990Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
- 1990Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
- 1991Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
- 1991Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
- 1991Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
- 1992Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1994Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
- 1997Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
- 1998Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
- 2001Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
- 2003Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- 2004Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
- 2004Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
- 2005Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
- 2006Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley’s Comets (b. 1932)
- 2009David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2009Koko Taylor, American blues musician (b. 1928)
- 2009Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
- 2010John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
- 2010Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
- 2011Andrew Gold, American singer, musician and songwriter (b. 1951)
- 2011Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, right-to-die activist (b. 1928)
- 2011James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)
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