Notable Historical Events on June 3rd
June 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
350 |
Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. |
1083 |
Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral |
1098 |
After 5-month siege in First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (now in modernTurkey) |
1140 |
French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. |
1326 |
Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. |
1357 |
Peace of Aat |
1539 |
Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain |
1540 |
Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so |
1620 |
Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. |
1621 |
Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa) |
1658 |
Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. |
1665 |
Duke of York (future James II) defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft |
1748 |
Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service |
1752 |
Moscow houses & churches destroyed by fire |
1770 |
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif |
1781 |
Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack |
1789 |
Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) |
1818 |
Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends |
1833 |
4th national black convention meets (Phila) |
1851 |
1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers |
1856 |
Cullen Whipple patents screw machine |
1860 |
Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes |
1861 |
1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV |
1864 |
General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor |
1871 |
Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000 |
1876 |
Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada |
1884 |
John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair |
1886 |
24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo, Uganda |
1888 |
"Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner) |
1889 |
The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. |
1899 |
W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days |
1906 |
Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession |
1907 |
Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines. |
1911 |
"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1 |
1913 |
Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws |
1915 |
The Austro-German forces recapture Przemysl, a crucial city in southeastern Poland, and the entire Russian front begins to collapse |
1916 |
US National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps |
1918 |
US Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart rules child labor laws unconstitutional |
1919 |
Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks |
1921 |
A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado |
1924 |
Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service |
1925 |
Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits |
1925 |
Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin) |
1925 |
White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit |
1929 |
1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light) |
1929 |
Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area resolving border dispute |
1930 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies |
1932 |
John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants |
1932 |
Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13 |
1932 |
Paul Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament |
1933 |
A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11 |
1933 |
Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain" |
1934 |
Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted |
1935 |
French liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours |
1935 |
One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. |
1937 |
Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580' drive) |
1938 |
German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery |
1939 |
71st Belmont: James Stout riding Johnstown wins in 2:29.6 |
1939 |
Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe |
1940 |
Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk |
1941 |
Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol |
1941 |
German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports |
1943 |
United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms |
1943 |
A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots. |
1944 |
76th Belmont: G L Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2 |
1944 |
Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution |
1944 |
Nazis pull out of Rome |
1946 |
1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris) |
1946 |
International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals |
1947 |
British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan |
1948 |
The musical "Sleepy Hollow" opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1948 |
200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory |
1948 |
Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore |
1949 |
1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown) |
1949 |
Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles) |
1949 |
GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer |
1950 |
French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal |
1952 |
Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president |
1953 |
Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving |
1953 |
KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins |
1953 |
Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball |
1955 |
KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Stan Musial hits his 300th HR |
1956 |
3rd class travel on British Railways ends |
1956 |
KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open |
1957 |
Howard Cosell's 1st TV show |
1958 |
Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers |
1959 |
1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
1959 |
Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon |
1959 |
Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1 |
1959 |
Singapore adopts constitution |
1961 |
"Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances |
1961 |
93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2 |
1961 |
JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna |
1962 |
Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 |
1962 |
Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1962 |
Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands |
1962 |
WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. |
1964 |
Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis & pharyngitis |
1964 |
Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee) |
1965 |
Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White) |
1966 |
European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners) |
1966 |
Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan) |
1967 |
99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8 |
1967 |
Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1 |
1968 |
Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins |
1968 |
Poor Peoples March on Washington |
1968 |
Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins |
1968 |
Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. |
1969 |
Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder) |
1970 |
1st artificial gene synthesized |
1970 |
Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban |
1971 |
Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0 |
1971 |
Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, v Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19) |
1972 |
"Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9 |
1972 |
1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25 |
1972 |
Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10 |
1973 |
"Smith" closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances |
1973 |
At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed |
1973 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic |
1974 |
Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government |
1976 |
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold |
1976 |
Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley v West Indies (0 & 17) |
1976 |
US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta |
1977 |
Balt Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals) |
1977 |
Belgium government of Tindemans forms |
1977 |
US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations |
1978 |
Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year |
1979 |
"Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway |
1979 |
33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win |
1979 |
Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
1979 |
Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled in one of world's worst oil spills |
1979 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
1980 |
"It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs |
1980 |
Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35 |
1980 |
ESPN begins televising college world series games |
1980 |
Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination |
1980 |
NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1 |
1981 |
Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt |
1982 |
55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis |
1982 |
Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians |
1984 |
"Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances |
1984 |
30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
1984 |
38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win |
1985 |
Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1 |
1985 |
Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques |
1986 |
Battles in Beirut; 53 killed |
1987 |
"Little Shop of Horrors" released in France |
1987 |
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" released in France |
1987 |
Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game |
1988 |
"Big" premieres in US |
1988 |
Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony |
1989 |
Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing |
1989 |
Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09) |
1989 |
Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die |
1989 |
Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall |
1989 |
Sportscasting legend Vin Scully broadcasts 23 innings in two different cities on one day |
1990 |
3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560 |
1990 |
44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win |
1990 |
Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1991 |
Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history |
1991 |
NY Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft |
1991 |
Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title |
1991 |
Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf |
1992 |
Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support |
1992 |
World's largest environmental summit opens (Rio De Janeiro Brazil) |
1993 |
66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze |
1994 |
5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed) |
1994 |
WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air |
1995 |
Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0 |
1995 |
1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood |
1998 |
Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. |
2001 |
55th Tony Awards: The Producers & Proof win |
2001 |
Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period |
2006 |
The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence. |
2007 |
USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details) |
2010 |
Canadian sportscaster Ron MacLean saves a man from drowning in the Delaware River in Philadelphia |
2012 |
Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria |
2012 |
Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground |
2012 |
Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record |
2013 |
20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan |
2013 |
US extends sanctions against Iran through its automotive industry and currency |
2013 |
119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China |
2014 |
Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team |
2016 |
Boy abandoned in Japan for being naughty found alive, unharmed |
2016 |
Trump will reopen controversial Trump University after litigation ends |
2016 |
Blue Angels, Thunderbird plane crashes leave one dead |
2016 |
Middle East peace talks to start in Paris |
2017 |
Putin suggests US hackers could have interfered with election, blamed Russia |
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