About June 3
June 3, 2024 is the 155th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 240 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 3
- 1326 –Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
- 1539 –Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1620 –Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
- 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.
- 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 transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
- 1940 –World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
- 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.
- 1962 –An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, 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.
- 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.
- 1992 –Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
- 2006 –The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.
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