June 3rd, 2015 - This Date in History.

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350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
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.
1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
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.
1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
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.
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.
1862 – A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
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, the 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 transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
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.
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.
1940 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
1950 – The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
1959 – Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire.
1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
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.
1968 – Valerie Solanas, the 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 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
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 the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1987 – The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
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 (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

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Today's Canadian Headline....

1987 MULRONEY AND PREMIERS INK DEAL
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- and the 10 provincial premiers initial the Meech Lake Accord constitutional deal after an all-night meeting in the Langevin Block; if approved by Parliament and all 10 provincial legislatures within three years, it will give Quebec special status within Canada and increase the powers of the provinces.

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Gravesend England - Medart Chouart des Groseilliers 1618-1690 sets sail on the ketch Nonsuch on a trade voyage to Hudson Bay, after convincing a group of London merchants to back him; the trading voyage will be a success, leading to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670.



In Other Events....

1995 New York City -Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a #1 pop chart hit with his Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
1994 London England - Queen Elizabeth unveils war memorial in Green Park to honour Canadians who fought and died in both world wars.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets Premiers over dinner at the Canadian Museum of Civilization to discuss the Meech Lake Accord; meeting stretches to week long closed-door conference, but Newfoundland and Manitoba will be unable to keep their part of the bargain.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Official opening of SkyDome, Toronto's $500 million domed stadium; 50,000 baseball fans soaked by rain when retractable roof opens.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises Petroleum Compensation Charge by $1.25 per barrel; to offset drop in value of Canadian dollar; Lougheed levy raised $1.10.
1972 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young's Old Man peaks at #31 on the pop singles chart.
1972 Vancouver BC - Mob of 2,000 fans fail to crash a Rolling Stones rock concert; 31 policemen injured before crowd dispersed.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Ontario stops construction of Spadina Expressway in Toronto, after strong civic opposition; construction started in 1964.
1970 Romania - Canada grants up to $7.5 million in relief assistance to flood victims in Romania.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Mint to replace silver in coins with a nickel alloy, beginning in August.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 12 Mile Limit; (19.3 km) exclusive fisheries zone off the Canadian coast; effective May, 1964.
1961 Regina Saskatchewan - Temperatures soar above 32 degrees to start 10 day Prairie heat wave.
1959 Washington DC - US President Eisenhower bounces a message off the moon to Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
1955 Vancouver BC - CP Airlines starts first Vancouver-Amsterdam service over North Pole.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia starts four-day visit to Canada.
1953 London England - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 attends six-day meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers.
1948 Newfoundland - First Newfoundland referendum returns 69,000 votes for self-government, 64,000 for union with Canada; 22,000 for no change (colonial status).
1935 Vancouver BC - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver to begin the On to Ottawa protest trek.
1934 London England - Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, knighted by King George V.
1922 Niagara Falls Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Harold Cockshutt unveils the Memorial Tower, designed by architect Charles Wilmott, to honor Niagara residents killed during the First World War.
1918 Quebec - Post office starts new airmail service linking Montreal and Quebec City with Boston and New York.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet sets up Board of Pension Commissioners to administer naval and military pensions.
1909 Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King sworn in as first Canada's Deputy Minister of Labour.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa carpenters go on strike for higher wages and union certification.
1889 Saint John New Brunswick - First Canadian Pacific train beyond Montreal arrives in the ice-free port of Saint John, marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier elected Leader of the Liberal Party.
1885 Steele Narrows Saskatchewan - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 leads the NWMP detachment against Big Bear, but the Cree leader again escapes; last military engagement fought on Canadian soil.
1876 London England - Montreal team introduces the sport of lacrosse to Britain.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - George Peacocke leads British regulars and Canadian militia to relieve Fort Erie; O'Neill's Fenians escape across the border, meeting a heroes' welcome.
1856 Windsor Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government opens the Windsor Branch Railway from Windsor to Windsor Junction; oldest constituent of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.
1813 Kingston Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 leaves for Niagara with reinforcements, stores and 300 soldiers.
1799 PEI Canada - Island of St. John officially proclaimed as Prince Edward Island.
1789 Fort Chipewyan NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sets out from Fort Chipewyan down the Slave River, to find a way to ship furs to the west coast; the Yellowknife Indians will tell him of a river flowing northwest from Great Slave Lake, and he will travel down the Mackenzie River, reaching the Arctic Delta on July 10; a North West Company partner.
1778 Montreal Quebec - First issue of the Literary Gazette (Gazette Littéraire) published; will become the Montreal Gazette.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Louis La Corne 1703-1761 sets out to command western fur trading posts; builds Fort St-Louis on the Saskatchewan.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais Youville 1701-1771 gets the administration of 'Hôpital Général de Montréal transferred permanently to the Grey Nuns.
1658 France - François de Laval 1623-1688 appointed vicar apostolic in New France by the Pope.
1620 Quebec Quebec - Récollets lay cornerstone of Notre-Dame-des-Anges; both a church and a monastery, it is today the oldest stone church in French North America.
1613 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reaches site of Ottawa.
1608 Tadoussac Quebec Canada - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Tadoussac with Etienne Brulé his third voyage to New France.

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