Today
in History ~ June 3
Events
1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Basilica
1098 - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders Christian knights under Bohemond of Taranto captured Antioch
1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" now
known as New York.
1770 - Father Junipero Serra founded the Carmel Mission.
1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1789 - Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
1800 - John Adams, the second president of the United States, became the first president to reside in Washington, D.C., when he took up residence at Union Tavern in Georgetown.
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1861 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1864 - General 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
1875 - Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
1886 - 24 Christians burned to death in Namgongo Uganda
1888 - "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published in the Sunday
edition of the San Francisco Examiner.
1916 - ROTC established by Act of Congress
1918 - Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1929 - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
1929 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
1932 - Lou Gehrig hits 4 consecutive HRs Yanks beat A's 20-13
1932 - Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1933 - Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1935 - French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
1937 - Duke of Windsor (abdicated King Edward VIII of England) Weds American divorcee, Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson [H]
1941 - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1944 - Nazis pull out of Rome
1946 - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1946 - Intl Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 accused Japanese war criminals
1946 - US Supreme court rules race separation on buses unconstitutional
1948 - 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1949 - "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
1949 - 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1950 - French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1957 - Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1959 - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
1961 - JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
1965 - Major Edward H. White II, opened the hatch of Gemini 4 and stepped out of the space capsule, becoming the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space
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1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight
1968 - Poor Peoples' March on Washington
1968 - Yanks turn 21st triple play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
1969 - Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
1970 - 1st artificial gene synthesized
1972: - Sally Jan Priesand was ordained a rabbi at Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio becoming the first woman rabbi in North America.
1974 - Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
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
1980 - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1980 - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1981 - Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three
weeks after assassination attempt
1982 - Israel's ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, was shot and critically
wounded outside a London hotel. The assassination attempt was followed by
Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
1985 - An accord between Italy and the Vatican ended Roman Catholicism's
position as "sole religion of the Italian state."
1986 - Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
1989 - Chinese Government Crackdown at
Tiananmen begins as Chinese army troops began their sweep of Beijing to crush
student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1990 - President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ended their summit in
Washington, D.C., with commitments to trust and consultation, despite their
discord over Lithuania and German unity.
1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1991 - France signed the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which prohibits
signatories from helping other countries to acquire nuclear weapons.
1992 - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Ghali opened the largest meeting on the
environment in history amid tight security in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992 - Undeclared presidential candidate Ross Perot announced he'd hired
Hamilton Jordan and Edward Rollins to help steer his campaign.
1992 - Democrat Bill Clinton appeared on "The Arsenio Hall
Show."
1993 - After reading her writings, President Clinton announced he was
withdrawing the nomination of University of Pennsylvania law professor Lani
Guinier to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department. The
decision sparked sharp criticism from black civil rights leaders.
1994 - North Korea's refusal to allow inspections of two of its nuclear power
plants prompted the United States to ask the United Nations about new economic
sanctions against Pyongyang.
1997 - French Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin became prime minister.
1997 - After a bloody coup, 1,200 foreigners fled Sierra Leone aboard an
American warship.
1997 - The U.S. government banned most slaughtered-animal parts from U.S.
livestock feed because of concerns over "mad cow disease."
2000 - President Clinton and Russian President Putin met in Moscow to discuss a
wide range of subjects. But they were unable to agree on the proposed U.S.
missile defense system.
2001 - Alejandro Toledo defeated ex-president Alan Garcia in Peru's presidential
election.
Birthdays
Today
1610 - Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1771 - Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1780 - William Hone, English author bookseller (The Every-Day Book)
1808 - Jefferson Davis (the first and only President of the Confederate States of America [1861-1865]; U.S. Senator and Secretary of War)
was born in Christian County, Ky.
1844 - Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th U.S. vice-president (1897-99)
1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
1865 - George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain
1877 - Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm)
1878 - Barney Oldfield (Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer: the first American to dive a mile in a minute [1903]; testimonial for Firestone tires: "my only life insurance.")
1901 - Maurice Evans (actor: Macbeth, Planet of the Apes, Batman, Bewitched)
1904 - Jan Pierce (Jacob Perelmuth) (opera singer: tenor)
1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner
1911 - Paulette Goddard (Levee) (actress: So Proudly We Hail, Time of Indifference, Sins of Jezebel, Reap the Wild Wind, The Women)
1913 - Ellen Corby,
1915 - Leo Gorcey (actor: Bowery Buckaroos, Here Come the Marines, 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge, Smuggler's Cove)
1917 - Lili St. Cyr (Maria Schaak) (actress: The Naked and the Dead, Son of
Sinbad)
1922 - Alain Resnais (director: Last Year at Marienbad, Stavisky, Providence)
1924 - Country blues singer Jimmy Rogers
1925 - Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) (actor: Some Like It Hot, The Great Impostor, The Defiant Ones, Houdini, Trapeze, The Boston Strangler, Christmas in Connecticut, The Count of Monte
Cristo)
1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet (Howl)
1926 - Colleen Dewhurst (Tony Award-winning actress: All the Way Home [1960], A Moon for the Misbegotten [1974]; Desire Under the Elms, Long Day's Journey into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra)
1929 - Chuck Barris (Gong Show;)
1932 - Dakota Staton (Aliyah Rabia) (jazz singer: No Man is Going to Change Me, The Late Late Show, Dynamic!, Crazy He Calls Me, Time to Swing)
1934 - Jim Gentile (baseball: Baltimore Orioles: Individual major league record holder for grand slams in one game [2] - shared with 6 others)
1942 - Curtis Mayfield (songwriter; Grammy Award-winning singer: Superfly, Freddie's Dead; group: The Impressions)
1943 - Billy Cunningham (Kangaroo Kid: Basketball Hall of Famer: basketball: Philadelphia 76ers; Carolina Cougars: ABA player of the year [1972]; coach of Philadelphia '76ers)
1944 - Mike Clark (musician: drummer: group: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1945 - Hale Irwin (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1974, 1979, 1990]: The Majors oldest champion [45 years])
1946 - Ian Hunter (singer, songwriter: group: Mott the Hoople)
1947 - Michael Burton (Olympic Gold medalist: 1,500-meter freestyle [1968, 1972], 400-meter freestyle [1968] - the only swimmer to win this event twice; founded Des Moines, Iowa Aquatic Club)
1950 - Suzie Quatro (singer: Stumblin' In [w/Chris Norman]; actress: Happy Days)
1951 - Deniece Williams (singer: Let's Hear It for the Boy, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late w/Johnny Mathis)
1952 - Billy Powell (musician: keyboards: group: Lynryd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama)
1954 - Dan Hill (singer: Sometimes When We Touch)
Famous
deaths
1594 - Michel Renichon, priest, executed
1661 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67
1732 - Pieter Vuyst, Dutch gov-gen of Ceylon, executed
1809 - John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1861 - Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (Carmen, Pearl Fishers), dies at 36
1877 - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1899 - Johann Strauss, Jr., Austria, composer ("Waltz King"), dies at 73
1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81. He was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
1970 - Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, pres Germany Reichsbank/minister of Eco, dies
1975 - Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 69
1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director dies at 71
1989 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, leader of the Islamic revolution,
died at 89.
1992 - William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70
1992 - Actor Robert Morley died in Reading, England, at age 84
2001 - Actor Anthony Quinn died in Boston at age 86.
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