WillDekkard
06-03-2010, 05:16 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 3rd
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* 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 Franηois 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-hsό 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, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
* 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 The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attacks 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.
* 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.
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- June 3rd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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 Franηois 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-hsό 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, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
* 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 The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attacks 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.
* 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.
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