June 3
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 Franois 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
* 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
* 1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules
that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney
* 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of
Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation
* 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 - Gnther Rhle, 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 Miranda, actress
Deaths
* 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
* 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, band leader, producer, director, actor
* 1987 - Andrs Segovia, musician
* 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shi'ite Islamic leader
* 1992 - Robert Morley, actor
* 2001 - Anthony Quinn, actor
Holidays and observances
* Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona
