June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 211 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1950
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus , of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor , ending Rome , leading a group of gladiators .
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod determines the border between Russia and the Finnmark region of northern Norway .
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain .
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his 3rd voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec .
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for the New Netherlands .
1665 - Future-King James II of England /James VII of Scotland defeats the Dutch fleet off Lowestoft , Suffolk , England .
1769 – At Tahiti , James Cook observes the transit of Venus .
1781 - American Revolutionary War : Jack Jouett makes a midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
1789 – From Fort Chipewyan , a Alexander MacKenzie -led expedition, to find a river link to the Pacific Ocean coast of Canada , sets off.
1839 - In Humen , China , Lin Tse-hsu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium taken from British merchants, providing the United Kingdom with the "casus belli" to begin hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War .
1858 – Francis Thomas Gregory climbs the world's biggest monolith (single piece of rock ), Mount Augustus in Western Australia . He names the rock after his brother, Augustus Gregory .
1861 – American Civil War : Union troops defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Philippi in Virginia .
1864 – American Civil War : Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia .
1885 - Last military engagement on Canadian soil - Cree leader Big Bear escapes from the North-West Mounted Police .
1889 – The Transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, 14 miles (23 kilometres ) from a Generator at Willamette Falls in Oregon to Portland, Oregon .
1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law , increasing the size of the United States National Guard .
1937 – Almost 6 months after his abdication as King , Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marries Wallis Simpson .
1940 – World War II : The Battle of Dunkirk ends, as Allied forces retreat.
1940 – World War II : The Luftwaffe bombs Paris .
1940 - Franz Redemacher proposes Madagascar as the "Jewish Homeland".
1941 – World War II : The Wehrmacht razes the village of Kandanos, Greece , to the ground, killing 180 of its residents.
1942 – World War II : Japan begins its Aleutian Islands campaign by attacking Unalaska Island.
1947 - Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma announces the planned Partition of India .
1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climb Annapurna in the Himalayas . It is the first successful ascent of a mountain higher than 8000 metres.
From 1951
1959 - Singapore is declared a self-governing state , though remaining within the British Empire .
1961 - US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna , Austria , for talks.
1962 – A Boeing 707 plane crashes near Paris , killing 130 people.
1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia , Canada , killing 101 people.
1965 – NASA Gemini 4 mission: Crew member Edward Higgins White becomes the first American to perform a spacewalk .
1968 - Valerie Solanas attempts to kill artist Andy Warhol .
1969 – Off South Vietnam , Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts United States Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 – The Supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 plane crashes in France , killing 14 people.
1979 – The Ixtoc I oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico , leading to one of the worst-ever oil spills.
1980 – Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska , killing 5 people and destroying many homes.
1982 - Shlomo Argov , Israel 's Ambassador to the United Kingdom , is shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt in London .
1984 – The Indian government's Operation Blue Star military offensive begins at the Golden Temple in Amritsar .
1989 – The crushing of protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing begins. Hundreds of people are killed.
1989 – Iran 's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
1991 – Mount Unzen on Kyushu , Japan , erupts, killing 43 people, all of them researchers or journalists .
1992 - Aboriginal land rights are granted in Australia .
1993 - France and Spain recognize the independence of Andorra .
1998 – A major train derailment occurs in Eschede , Germany , killing 101 people.
2003 - A train crash in Chinchilla, Castile-La Mancha , Spain , kills 19 people and injures around 50.
2006 – Montenegro becomes independent.
2008 – Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States , over Hillary Clinton .
2010 – The name of the Queen Charlotte Islands , British Columbia , Canada , is officially changed back to Haida Gwaii .
2012 – Dana Air Flight 997 crashes into a building in Lagos , Nigeria , killing all 153 people on board and more than 40 on the ground.
2017 - The June 2017 London attack is carried out, killing 8 people in a car-ramming and stabbing attack.
2018 - The Volcan de Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing at least 69 people.
Births
Up to 1900
20 BC - Sejanus , Roman political figure (d. 31 )
1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554 )
1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590 )
1579 - Jens Munk , Danish-Norwegian explorer (d. 1628 )
1635 - Philippe Quinault , French writer (d. 1688 ).
1636 – John Hale , American minister (d. 1700 )
1659 - David Gregory , Scottish astronomer (d. 1708 )
1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian naturalist (d. 1788 )
1726 – James Hutton , Scottish geologist (d. 1797 )
1770 – Manuel Belgrano , Argentine politician and general (d. 1820 )
1808 – Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889 )
1819 - Anton Anderledy , Swiss religious leader (d. 1892 )
1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq , French composer (d. 1918 )
1840 - Michael O'Laughlen , American conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (d. 1867 )
1843 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912 )
1844 – Detlev von Lilencron , German poet (d. 1909 )
1844 – Garret Hobart , Vice President of the United States (d. 1899 )
1853 – Flinders Petrie , English Egyptologist (d. 1942 )
1864 – Ransom E. Olds , American pioneer (d. 1950 )
1865 – King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936 )
1872 – Habibullah Khan , Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1919 )
1873 – Otto Loewi , German doctor , won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961 )
1876 - Nikolay Burdenko , Russian surgeon (d. 1946 )
1877 – Raoul Dufy , French painter (d. 1953 )
1878 - Barney Oldfield , American racing driver (d. 1946 )
1879 - Alla Nazimova , Russian-American movie and theatre actress (d. 1945 )
1881 - Mikhail Larionov , Russian painter (d. 1964 )
1885 – Yakov Sverdlov , Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1919 )
1890 - Baburao Painter , Indian actor , director , producer and screenwriter (d. 1954 )
1895 – Zoltan Korda , movie director (d. 1961 )
1897 – Memphis Minnie , American blues guitarist , singer and songwriter (d. 1973 )
1899 – Georg von Bekesy , Hungarian physicist and physiologist (d. 1972 )
1900 - Leo Picard , German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997 )
1901 – 1950
1901 – Maurice Evans , English actor (d. 1989 )
1901 – Zhang Xueliang , Chinese warlord (d. 2001 )
1903 – Eddie Acuff , American actor (d. 1956 )
1904 – Charles Drew , American surgeon (d. 1950 )
1906 – Josephine Baker , American-born dancer (d. 1975 )
1910 – Paulette Goddard , American actress (d. 1990 )
1910 - Wilfred Thesiger , English explorer and writer (d. 2003 )
1911 – Ellen Corby , American actress (d. 1999 )
1913 - Lloyd Percival , Canadian tennis player, boxer, cricketer and coach (d. 1974 )
1917 – Leo Gorcey , American actor (d. 1969 )
1922 - Alain Resnais , French director (d. 2014 )
1923 - Igor Shafarevich , Russian mathematician (d. 2017 )
1924 - M. Karunanidhi , Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018 )
1924 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig , Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (d. 2018 )
1924 - Bernard Glasser , American actor (d. 2014 )
1924 - Jimmy Rogers , American singer and guitarist (d. 1997 )
1924 – Torsten Wiesel , Swedish neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize winner
1925 – Tony Curtis , American actor (d. 2010 )
1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning , Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001 )
1926 – Allen Ginsberg , American poet (d. 1997 )
1929 – Werner Arber , Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (d. 1999 )
1930 - George Fernandes , Indian journalist and politician
1930 – Dakota Staton , American jazz singer (d. 2007 )
1931 – Raul Castro , President of Cuba
1931 – Lindy Remigino , American athlete
1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah , Emir of Bahrain (d. 1999 )
1935 - Enzo Jannacci , Italian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013 )
1936 - Colin Meads , New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017 )
1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz , American politician
1937 – Edward Winter , American actor
1938 - David L. Mills , American computer engineer
1939 – Ian Hunter , English musician (Mott the Hoople )
1940 - Antonio Brack Egg , Peruvian ecologist and politician (d. 2014 )
1940 - Loretta Long , American actress and singer
1942 – Curtis Mayfield , American musician (d. 1999 )
1943 - Billy Cunningham , American basketball player
1944 - Edith McGuire , American sprinter
1944 - Mary Thom , American feminist
1945 - Ramon Jacinto , Filipino singer , guitarist and businessman
1945 – John Derbyshire , British-American mathematician and political commentator
1945 – Hale Irwin , American golfer
1946 - Michael Clarke , American drummer (d. 1993 )
1946 - Eddie Holman , American singer
1946 - Penelope Wilton , English actress
1947 - Mickey Finn , English singer and musician (d. 1993 )
1948 - Jan Reker , Dutch footballer and manager
1949 - Floyd Lloyd , Jamaican singer
1950 - Melissa Mathison , American film and television screenwriter (d. 2015 )
1950 – Suzi Quatro , American rock musician
1950 - Deniece Williams , American singer
1951 – 1975
1951 - Jill Biden , Second Lady of the United States
1952 – Billy Powell , American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (d. 2009 )
1954 - Dan Hill , Canadian singer
1954 – Bajram Rexhepi , former Prime Minister of Kosovo (d. 2017 )
1956 – George Burley , Scottish football manager
1956 - Danny Wilde , American singer and guitarist (The Quick and The Rembrandts )
1957 - Peter de Villiers , South African rugby coach
1962 – Susannah Constantine , English television presenter
1963 - Rudy Demotte , Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Wallonia
1964 – Kerry King , American rock guitarist (Slayer )
1964 - James Purefoy , British actor
1965 – Michael Moore , British politician
1965 – Thomas Ohrner , German actor and television presenter
1966 – Wasim Akram , Pakistani cricketer
1967 – Anderson Cooper , American broadcast journalist
1968 - Saffron , Nigerian singer and dancer
1970 - Greg Hancock , American motorcycle speedway racer
1972 - Julie Gayet , French actress
1974 – Kelly Jones , Welsh singer (Stereophonics )
From 1976
1976 - Laila Samuelsen , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomes , Brazilian footballer
1979 - Christian Malcolm , British sprinter
1980 – Amauri , Brazilian-Italian footballer
1980 - Ibrahim Yattara , Guinean footballer
1980 - Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani , Emir of Qatar
1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva , Russian pole vaulter
1982 - Jodie Whittaker , English actress
1984 – Emily Scott , Australian model
1984 – Prince Félix of Luxembourg
1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan , Mongolian boxer
1985 - Papiss Cissé , Senegalese footballer
1985 - Lukasz Piszczek , Polish footballer
1986 – Rafael Nadal , Spanish tennis player
1986 – Tomas Verner , Czech ice skater
1986 - Al Horford , Dominican basketball player
1987 - Angela Crawley , Scottish politician
1987 - Michelle Keegan , English actress
1987 - Masami Nagasawa , Japanese actress
1987 – Lalaine , American actress
1989 – Katie Hoff , American swimmer
1989 - Imogen Poots , British actress
1990 – Fabian Götze , German footballer
1992 – Mario Götze , German footballer
1993 - Otto Porter , American basketball player
2006 - Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg , Dutch royal
Deaths
Up to 1975
628 - Liang Shidu , Chinese rebel leader
800 - Staurakios , Byzantine general
1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350 )
1397 - William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury , English commander (b. 1328 )
1411 – Leopold IV , Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1615 - Sanada Yukimura , Japanese samurai (b. 1567 )
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa , Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590 )
1657 – William Harvey , English physician (b. 1578 )
1780 – Thomas Hutchinson , colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711 )
1826 – Nikolai Karamzin , Russian writer (b. 1766 )
1858 – Julius Reubke , German composer (b. 1834 )
1861 – Stephen A. Douglas , American politician (b. 1813 )
1875 – Georges Bizet , French composer (b. 1838 )
1882 - Christian Wiberg , German painter (b. 1839 )
1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae , expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812 )
1899 – Johann Strauss II , Austrian composer (b. 1825 )
1900 – Mary Kingsley , English explorer (b. 1862 )
1906 - John Maxwell , American golfer (b. 1871 )
1918 - Ramon Maximiliano Valdes , 7th President of Panama (b. 1867 )
1924 – Franz Kafka , Austrian novelist (b. 1883 )
1928 – Li Yüan-hung , Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864 )
1946 – Mikhail Kalinin , Soviet-Russian politician (b. 1875 )
1963 – Nazim Hikmet (b. 1902 )
1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881 )
1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpaa , Finnish writer (b. 1888 )
1969 - George Edwin Cooke , American soccer player (b. 1883 )
1970 – Hjalmar Schacht , Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877 )
1971 – Heinz Hopf , German mathematician (b. 1894 )
1975 - Eisaku Sato , Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901 )
1975 – Ozzie Nelson , American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906 )
1976 – 2010
1977 – Roberto Rossellini , Italian movie director, father of Isabella Rossellini , husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906 )
1977 – Archibald Hill , English mathematician , won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886 )
1986 - Anna Neagle , English actress (b. 1904 )
1987 - Will Sampson , American actor and artist (b. 1933 )
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900 )
1990 – Stiv Bators , American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22 , 1949 )
1990 – Robert Noyce , American inventor (b. 1927 )
1991 – Katia Krafft , French volcanologist (b. 1942 )
1991 – Maurice Krafft , French volcanologist (b. 1946 )
1991 – Takeshi Nagata , Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913 )
1992 – Robert Morley , English actor (b. 1908 )
1994 - Puig Aubert , French rugby player (b. 1925 )
1997 - Dennis James , American actor and game show host (b. 1917 )
2000 - Merton Miller , American economist (b. 1923 )
2001 – Anthony Quinn , Mexican-American actor (b. 1915 )
2002 - Lew Wasserman , American talent agent and studio executive (b. 1913 )
2003 – Felix de Weldon , Austrian sculptor (b. 1907 )
2004 – Frances Shand Kydd , mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936 )
2005 – Harold Cardinal , Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (b. 1945 )
2006 - Johnny Grande , American singer (b. 1932 )
2009 – Koko Taylor , American musician (b. 1928 )
2009 – David Carradine , American actor (b. 1936 )
2010 – Vladimir Arnold , Russian mathematician (b. 1937 )
2010 – Rue McClanahan , American actress (b. 1934 )
From 2011
2011 – Jack Kevorkian , American physician and assisted suicide activist (b. 1928 )
2011 – James Arness , American actor (b. 1923 )
2012 – Roy Salvadori , British racing driver (b. 1922 )
2013 - Frank Lautenberg , United States Senator for New Jersey (b. 1924 )
2013 - Jiah Khan , American-born British-Indian actress (b. 1988 )
2013 - Atul Chitnis , German-Indian technician (b. 1962 )
2014 - Gopinath Munde , Indian politician (b. 1949 )
2014 - James Alan Shelton , Australian bluegrass guitarist (b. 1960 )
2014 - Karl Harris , British motorcycle racer (b. 1979 )
2014 - Svyatoslav Belza , Russian scholar, critic and essayist (b. 1942 )
2014 - Virginia Luque , Argentine actress (b. 1927 )
2015 - Avi Beker , Israeli academic (b. 1951 )
2015 - Margaret Juntwait , American radio host (b. 1957 )
2016 - Muhammad Ali , American boxer (b. 1942 )
2016 - Jocelyn Lovell , Canadian cyclist (b. 1950 )
2016 - Sten Lundin , Swedish motocross racer (b. 1931 )
2016 - Luis Salom , Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991 )
2016 - Dave Swarbrick , English musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1941 )
2016 - Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen , Dutch malacologist (b. 1929 )
2017 - David Choby , American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947 )
2017 - Niels Helveg Petersen , Danish politician (b. 1939 )
2017 - Jimmy Piersall , American baseball player (b. 1929 )
2017 - John K. Watts , Australian footballer and broadcaster (b. 1937 )
2017 - Vincent Tshabalala , South African golfer (b. 1942 )
2018 - Robert Brylewski , Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1961 )
2018 - Frank Carlucci , American politician (b. 1930 )
2018 - Jerry Hopkins , American journalist and blogger (b. 1935 )
2018 - Miguel Obando y Bravo , Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926 )
2018 - Mario Toros , Italian politician (b. 1922 )
2018 - Georg von Tiesenhausen , German-American rocket scientist (b. 1914 )
Observances