About June 3

June 3, 2025 is the 154th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 259 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 3

  • 350 –
    Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
  • 1326 –
    Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
  • 1621 –
    The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1889 –
    The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 mi 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.
  • 1932 –
    Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
  • 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 Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3000000 oilbbl of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.

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