Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac Quebec Canada. 1620 - Building of 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. 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California 1800 - President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern -- the White House was not yet completed) 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario 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, Oregon. 1916 - The ROTC is established by the United States Congress 1935 - 1,000 unemployed men 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 1944 - Charles de Gaulle becomes Prime Minister of France 1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed shortly after 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 mission by an American crew 1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The show premiered on September 8, 1966. 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev TU-144 crashed near Goussainville, France killing 14 marking the first crash of a supersonic aircraft 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc 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. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons. 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation 1997 - Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister of France 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths. Births 1726 - James Hutton, geologist († 1797) 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America († 1889) 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, poet († 1909) 1864 - Ransom E. Olds, automobile pioneer 1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom († 1936) 1877 - Raoul Dufy, painter († 1953) 1878 - Barney Oldfield, auto racer († 1946) 1901 - Maurice Evans, actor († 1989) 1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer, singer and actress († 1975) 1911 - Paulette Goddard, actress († 1990) 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, ecdysiast (†1999) 1922 - Alain Resnais, director 1924 - Günther Rühle, journalist, theater director 1924 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress († 1991) 1925 - Tony Curtis, actor 1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, writer 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet († 1997) 1926 - Boots Randolph, musician 1929 - Chuck Barris, game show host, producer, purported spy 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author († 1999) 1936 - Larry McMurtry, author 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, songwriter, musician († 1999) 1943 - Billy Cunningham, basketball star, executive 1946 - Ian Hunter, musician ("Mott the Hoople") 1950 - Suzi Quatro, musician, actress 1987 - Lalaine Miranda, actress Deaths 1858 - Julius Reubke, composer 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, politician 1875 - Georges Bizet, composer 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law 1899 - Johann Strauss II, composer 1963 - Pope John XXIII 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank under Hitler 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, band leader, producer, director, actor 1987 - Andrés Segovia, musician 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shi'ite Islamic leader 1992 - Robert Morley, actor 2001 - Anthony Quinn, actor 2003 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor Holidays and observances Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona See Also: June 2 - June 4 - May 3 - July 3 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.