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What Happened on June 3rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.
2017	London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.
2015	An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills more than 200 people.
2013	The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
2013	At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
2012	A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and six people on the ground.
2012	The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
2006	The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
1998	After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
1992	Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Australia, overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius, in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo and leading to the Native Title Act 1993.
1991	Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1989	The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1984	Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1982	The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
1980	An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
1980	The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $987 million in 2021) worth of damage.
1979	A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1973	A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
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; resulting in 74 deaths.
1965	The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
1963	Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1962	At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
1950	Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
1943	In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.
1942	World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1941	World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
1940	World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940	Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1937	The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1935	One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
1916	The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1889	The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1885	In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
1866	The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario back into the United States.
1864	American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1861	American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
1844	The last pair of great auks is killed.
1839	In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1781	Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
1665	James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1658	Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1621	The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
1608	Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.
1602	An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay
1539	Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1326	The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1140	The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1098	After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (today's Turkey).
713	The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
350	The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.

Famous People Born on June 3

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Year	Name
1965	Michael Moore, British accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1936	Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1976	Nikos Chatzis, Greek basketball player
1913	Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author (d. 2000)
1454	Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (d. 1523)
1950	Larry Probst, American businessman
1662	Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter (d. 1747)
1986	Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner
1950	Deniece Williams, American singer-songwriter
1950	Juan José Muñoz, Argentinian businessman (d. 2013)

Famous People Deaths On June 3

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on June 3. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2021	F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (b. 1933)
2014	Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1942)
1970	Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
2010	Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
1906	John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
628	Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
1657	William Harvey, English physician and academic (b. 1578)
1411	Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1371)
1553	Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker and architect (b. 1485)
1977	Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)