On June 3 in history
1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral 1098 - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey 1357 - Peace of Aat 1509 - Henry VIII married wife No 1, Catherine of Aragon 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain 1540 - Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY) 1621 - WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded 1665 - Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft 1748 - Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service 1752 - Moscow houses & churchs destroyed by fire 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif 1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn 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) 1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 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 1 of a series of tornadoes 1861 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV 1864 - Gen 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 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) 1899 - W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days 1906 - Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession 1911 - "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1 1913 - Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws 1916 - National Defense Act establishes ROTC 1918 - Supreme Court 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 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 - Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved 1929 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area 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 - 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 Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours 1937 - Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France 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 aboard 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 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn 1941 - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports 1942 - Battle of Midway Island begins 1943 - United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms 1944 - 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard 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 - Intl Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals 1946 - US Supreme court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional 1947 - British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan 1948 - "Sleepy Hallow" 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 founded baseball & not Abner Doubleday 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 1959 - 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo 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 Neth 1962 - WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting 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 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 - Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female US rabbi 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, crashes 1973 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic 1973 - Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed 1974 - Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government 1976 - Queen's "Bhoemian 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 govt 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 1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship 1979 - World's worst oil spillage occurred in the Gulf of Mexico 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 - Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing 1989 - Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone 1989 - Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09) 1989 - Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die 1989 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall 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 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 - Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27) 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
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