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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

• 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1098 – First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
• 1140 – French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 – Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1539 – DeSoto claims Florida for Spain.
• 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
• 1620 – Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
• 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
• 1800 – U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern because the White House was not yet completed).
• 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
• 1850 – 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".
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
• 1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
• 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
• 1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
• 1889 – The coast to coast Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
• 1889 – 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.
• 1916 – The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
• 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
• 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
• 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground.
• 1956 – British Railways renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
• 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130.
• 1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
• 1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
• 1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
• 1969 – 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.
• 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• 1979 – 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.
• 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
• 1984 – The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
• 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1989 – SkyDome is officially opened in Toronto, Ontario
• 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought about by Eddie Mabo.
• 1998 – Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
• 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• 2007 – USS Carter Hall engages pirates after they board the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.

Births

• 1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
• 1636 – John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)
• 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
• 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
• 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
• 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
• 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
• 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
• 1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
• 1840 – Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
• 1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
• 1844 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
• 1853 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
• 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
• 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
• 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
• 1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
• 1873 – Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
• 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
• 1878 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
• 1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
• 1888 – Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
• 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
• 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Zhang Xueliang {d. 2001}
• 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
• 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
• 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director
• 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
• 1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor
• 1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host
• 1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
• 1931 – Françoise Arnoul, French actress
• 1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
• 1931 – John Norman, American author
• 1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete
• 1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
• 1935 – Irma P. Hall, American actress
• 1936 – Jim Gentile, baseball player
• 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American author
• 1937 – Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
• 1937 – Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1939 – Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
• 1939 – Ian Hunter (singer), English musician
• 1939 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist
• 1940 – Connie Saylor, American NASCAR racecar driver. (d. 1993)
• 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
• 1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
• 1944 – Edith McGuire, American runner
• 1944 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
• 1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
• 1945 – Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
• 1946 – Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Eddie Holman, American singer
• 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
• 1947 – Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T.Rex) (d. 2003)
• 1947 – Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
• 1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
• 1949 – Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer
• 1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
• 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
• 1950 – Christos Verelis, Greek politician
• 1950 – Deniece Williams, American singer
• 1952 – Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
• 1952 – David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
• 1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1954 – Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
• 1956 – Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
• 1956 – George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
• 1956 – Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)
• 1957 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1958 – Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
• 1959 – John Carlson, American talk radio host
• 1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
• 1962 – Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
• 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
• 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
• 1964 – Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
• 1964 – James Purefoy, British actor
• 1965 – Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)
• 1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
• 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
• 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
• 1967 – Jason Jones, Canadian actor
• 1968 – Jamie O'Neal, American singer
• 1968 – Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
• 1969 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
• 1969 – Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
• 1970 – Esther Hart, Dutch singer
• 1970 – Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
• 1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
• 1970 – Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
• 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
• 1971 – John Hodgman, American author and humorist
• 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
• 1974 – Arianne Zucker, American actress
• 1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 – Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
• 1976 – Yuri Ruley, American drummer
• 1976 – Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
• 1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
• 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
• 1978 – Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer
• 1980 – Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer
• 1983 – Janine Habeck, German model and Playboy Playmate
• 1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model
• 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
• 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
• 1986 – Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
• 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
• 1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
• 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
• 2006 – Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

Deaths

• 1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
• 1397 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
• 1411 – Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• 1594 – John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
• 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
• 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• 1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
• 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
• 1826 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
• 1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
• 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
• 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• 1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
• 1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1955 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
• 1963 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
• 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
• 1983 – Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
• 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1902)
• 1989 – John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
• 1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
• 1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
• 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
• 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire – Festival to Bellona.
• Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
• Vladimirskaya (in Russia)
• Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda.
• Saint Kevin of Glendalough
• Saint Clothilde (d. 545)
• Blessed Pope John XXIII
• Saint Paula (d. 273)
• Saint Ovidius

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~ W. Clement Stone

• selected by Kalki

2005

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~ Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961)

• selected by Kalki

2006

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. ~ Lawrence Lessig

• selected by Kalki

2007

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." ~ Lawrence Lessig

• selected by Kalki

2008

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ~ Lawrence Lessig

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ Sydney Smith

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

You can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, no matter how much we pay him. ~ Lawrence Lessig

• 4 because the dead remains dead...and the dead doesn't continue to please the public. The hint of this is to cherish something while it is still alive. Zarbon 17:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ~ Sydney Smith (born June 3)

• 2 because he says it as it is. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. ~ Sydney Smith

• 3 because there's ignorance of some things, and there's complete ignorance of all things around, which can abound to weakness. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort. ~ Sydney Smith

• 3 because I agree. Many people who are timid, don't make an effort...but the possibilities would be endless if they did. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

No man can ever end with being superior, who will not begin with being inferior. ~ Sydney Smith

• 3 because everyone starts inferior at something. It takes time to become superior, it doesn't happen overnight. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~ Sydney Smith

• 2 because this one is rather comical, although it holds some abundant truth to it. Zarbon 16:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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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

• 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
• 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain
• 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac.
• 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
• 1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
• 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed).
• 1850 - The traditional founding date of Kansas City. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County as the "City of Kansas".
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops at Cold Harbor.
• 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, into the United States to a heroes' welcome.
• 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
• 1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
• 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
• 1889 - 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, United States.
• 1907 - Centro Escolar University was established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
• 1916 - The ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1932 - New York Yankee great Lou Gehrig hits four home runs in one game against the Philadelphia Athletics. Final score 20-13 in favour of the Yankees.
• 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
• 1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
• 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
• 1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
• 1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchie Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.
• 1956 - 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).
• 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashed after aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130. The largest single plane accident to date.
• 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
• 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.
• 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
• 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
• 1969 - 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.
• 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• 1977 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which would be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999.
• 1979 - 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.
• 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
• 1984 - The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
• 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
• 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

Births

• 1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
• 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
• 1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
• 1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
• 1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
• 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
• 1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
• 1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
• 1832 - Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
• 1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
• 1844 - Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
• 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
• 1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
• 1864 - Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
• 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
• 1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
• 1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
• 1873 - Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
• 1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
• 1878 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
• 1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
• 1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
• 1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
• 1899 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
• 1901 - Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1904 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
• 1905 - Martin Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentartion camp (d. 1946)
• 1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
• 1907 - Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
• 1911 - Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1911 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
• 1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
• 1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
• 1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
• 1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
• 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
• 1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
• 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
• 1927 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
• 1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1929 - Chuck Barris, American game show host
• 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
• 1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
• 1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
• 1931 - John Norman, American author
• 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
• 1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
• 1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
• 1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
• 1936 - Larry McMurtry, American author
• 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
• 1937 - Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
• 1939 - Ian Hunter, English musician
• 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
• 1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
• 1944 - Edith McGuire, American runner
• 1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
• 1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
• 1946 - Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993)
• 1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
• 1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
• 1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
• 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
• 1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
• 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
• 1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• 1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1956 - Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
• 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
• 1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
• 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
• 1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
• 1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
• 1964 - Doro Pesch, German singer
• 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
• 1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician
• 1965 - Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
• 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
• 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
• 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer
• 1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
• 1969 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
• 1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
• 1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
• 1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
• 1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
• 1971 - Carl Everett, American baseball player
• 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
• 1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
• 1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
• 1976 - Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
• 1977 - Cris, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
• 1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player
• 1979 - Tim Howard, American footballer
• 1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 - Joseph Arand, American national racewalking champion
• 1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
• 1986 - Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
• 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 - Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
• 1986 - Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
• 1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer
• 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
• 2002 - Prince Tirso of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
• 2006 - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

Deaths

• 1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
• 1397 - William Montacute, English military leader (b. 1328)
• 1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• 1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
• 1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1640 - Theophilus Howard, English politician (b. 1584)
• 1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
• 1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
• 1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
• 1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800
• 1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
• 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
• 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• 1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
• 1933 - William Muldoon, wrestler (b. 1852)
• 1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
• 1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
• 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
• 1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
• 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
• 1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
• 1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
• 1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
• 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900)
• 1989 - John McCauley, NHL official
• 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
• 1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
• 1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
• 1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)
• 1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
• 1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908
• 1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
• 1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
• 1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
• 2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona.
• Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee.

Liturgical Feast days

• Vladimirskaya (in Russia)
• Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda.
• Saint Kevin of Glendalough
• Saint Clothilde (died 545)
• Blessed Pope John XXIII
• Saint Paula (died 273)
• Saint Ovidius
• Saint Gorg Preca

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada

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