About June 3

June 3, 2020 is the 155th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 254 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 3

  • 1140 –
    French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
  • 1326 –
    Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
  • 1621 –
    The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
  • 1943 –
    In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
  • 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.
  • 1982 –
    The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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