June 3rd Events |
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| June 3rd, 2007 (June 03 2007) | Event | USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details) | |
| June 3rd, 2006 (June 03 2006) | Event | The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro s formal declaration of independence. | |
| June 3rd, 1998 (June 03 1998) | Event | Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. | |
| June 3rd, 1991 (June 03 1991) | Event | Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyushu killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. | |
| June 3rd, 1989 (June 03 1989) | Event | The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. | |
| June 3rd, 1984 (June 03 1984) | Event | The Indian National Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar. | |
| June 3rd, 1982 (June 03 1982) | Event | The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. | |
| June 3rd, 1979 (June 03 1979) | Event | 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. | |
| June 3rd, 1973 (June 03 1973) | Event | A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. | |
| June 3rd, 1969 (June 03 1969) | Event | Melbourne-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. | Evans Quotes |
| June 3rd, 1968 (June 03 1968) | Event | Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. | Andy Warhol Quotes |
| June 3rd, 1965 (June 03 1965) | Event | Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk (EVA). | |
| June 3rd, 1965 (June 03 1965) | Event | For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time. | |
| June 3rd, 1963 (June 03 1963) | Event | A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. | |
| June 3rd, 1962 (June 03 1962) | Event | An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashed after aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130. The largest single plane accident to date. | |
| June 3rd, 1956 (June 03 1956) | Event | British Rail renames Third Class passenger facilities as Second Class (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class). | |
| June 3rd, 1943 (June 03 1943) | Event | 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. | |
| June 3rd, 1940 (June 03 1940) | Event | World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. | |
| June 3rd, 1940 (June 03 1940) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat. | |
| June 3rd, 1937 (June 03 1937) | Event | The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. | |
| June 3rd, 1935 (June 03 1935) | Event | One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. | |
| June 3rd, 1916 (June 03 1916) | Event | The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress. | |
| June 3rd, 1916 (June 03 1916) | Event | The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men. | |
| June 3rd, 1907 (June 03 1907) | Event | Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines. | |
| June 3rd, 1889 (June 03 1889) | Event | The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. | |
| June 3rd, 1889 (June 03 1889) | Event | 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. | |
| June 3rd, 1888 (June 03 1888) | Event | The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. | |
| June 3rd, 1885 (June 03 1885) | Event | Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police. | |
| June 3rd, 1866 (June 03 1866) | Event | Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States. | |
| June 3rd, 1864 (June 03 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Cold HarborUnion forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia. | |
| June 3rd, 1850 (June 03 1850) | Event | The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas". | |
| June 3rd, 1800 (June 03 1800) | Event | U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern - the White House was not yet completed). | John Adams Quotes |
| June 3rd, 1770 (June 03 1770) | Event | Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. | |
| June 3rd, 1665 (June 03 1665) | Event | James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft. | |
| June 3rd, 1658 (June 03 1658) | Event | Pope Alexander VII appoints Francois de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| June 3rd, 1621 (June 03 1621) | Event | The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands. | |
| June 3rd, 1620 (June 03 1620) | Event | Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. | |
| June 3rd, 1608 (June 03 1608) | Event | Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec. | |
| June 3rd, 1539 (June 03 1539) | Event | DeSoto claims Florida for Spain. | |
| June 3rd, 1326 (June 03 1326) | Event | Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. | |
| June 3rd, 1140 (June 03 1140) | Event | French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. | Peter Abelard Quotes |
| June 3rd, 1098 (June 03 1098) | Event | First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege. | |
| June 3rd, 0350 (June 03 0350) | Event | Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. | |
