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2005-06-03

On this day in History - Jun 03

1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey.
1140 - French scholar, Peter Abelard found guilty of heresy.
1411 - Leopold IV, dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1539 - Capitão Martín Galeano funda a cidade de Vélez - Colômbia
1540 - Archduke Charles II of Austria, was born (d. 1590). Regent of Inner Austria.
1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1620 - Building of oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 - English naval forces defeat the Dutch fleet.
1726 - James Hutton, was born. Scottish geologist.
1770- Manuel Belgrano, was born. Argentine lawyer, politician, military and creator of Argentina's flag.
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, DC (in a tavern -- the White House was not yet completed).
1808 - Jefferson Davis, was born (d. 1889). President of the Confederate States of America.
1811 - Henry James was born. Philosophical theologian.
1844 - Detlev von Liliencron, was born (d. 1909). German poet.
1858 - Julius Reubke, dies. (b. 1834). German composer
1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, dies (b. 18913). American politician
1864 - Ransom E. Olds, was born (d. 1950). American automobile pioneer.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Confederate forces attack Union troops at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1936) .
1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario into the United States to a heroes' welcome.
1873 - Otto Loewi was born (d. 25 Dec 1961). German-born American physician and pharmacologist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with Sir Henry Dale) "for their discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
1875 - Georges Bizet, dies (b. 1834). French composer.
1879 - Raymond Pearl was born (d. 17 Nov 1940). American zoologist, one of the founders of biometry, the application of statistics to biology and medicine. Pearl was chief statistician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1919-35). In 1926, he first reported health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption (as opposed to both abstinence and heavy drinking) in a modern medical light.
1877 - Raoul Dufy, was born (d. 1953). French painter.
1878 - Barney Oldfield, was born (d. 1946). American auto racer.
1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
1886 - Andrés Avelino Cáceres assume a presidência do Peru e Pedro Alejandrino del Solar Gabans assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro
1887 - Fundação do Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata - Argentina
1888 - The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1888 - Tom Brown, was born (d. 1958). American jazz musician.
1888 - Jim Tully, was born (d. 1947). Novelist.
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
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.
1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, dies (b. 1812). Expert on Byzantine Law.
1899 - Johann Strauss II, dies (b. 1825). Austrian composer.
1899 - Georg von Békésy was born (d. 13 Jun 1972). American physicist and physiologist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea by which sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, a portion of the inner ear.
1901 - Maurice Evans, was born (d. 1989). English actor.
1901 - José Lins do Rego was born. Brazilien writer.
1904 - Jan Peerce, was born (d. 1894). American tenor.
1904 - Charles Richard Drew was born (d. 1 April 1950). Black American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion.
1906 - Josephine Baker, was born (d. 1975). American dancer, singer and actress.
1911 - Paulette Goddard, was born (d. 1990). American actress.
1916 - The ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
1916 - National Defense Act was signed into law, increasing the size of the National Guard by 450,000 men.
1918 - Lili St. Cyr, was born (d. 1999). American ecdysiast.
1922 - Alain Resnais, was born. French director
1924 - Colleen Dewhurst,was born (d. 1991). Canadian actress.
1924 - Günther Rühle, was born. Journalist, theater director
1924 - Torsten Nils Wiesel, was Swedish neurobiologist, corecipient (with Americans David Hunter Hubel and Roger Wolcott Sperry) of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. All three scientists were honoured for their investigations of brain function
1924 - Franz Kafka, dies (b. 1883). Austrian novelist.
1925 - Tony Curtis, was born. American actor
1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, was born. Writer
1926 - Allen Ginsberg, was born in Paterson, N.J. (d. 1997). American poet. An outspoken member of the beat generation, Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking the American values of the 1950s.
1926 - Boots Randolph, was born. Musician
1929 - Chuck Barris, was born. American game show host, producer, purported spy
1929 - Werner Arber was born. Swiss microbiologist, corecipient (with Americans Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith) of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, was born (d. 1999). American science fiction author
1931 - Lindy Remigino, was born. American athlete.
1932 - Édouard Herriot assume (pela 3º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da França
1934 - Rolland D. McCune, was born. American theologian, Fundamentalist
1935 - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1936 - Larry McMurtry, was born. American author
1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, was born. American politician
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 tactical victory and with Allied forces in full evacuation.
1942 - Curtis Mayfield, was born (d. 1999). American songwriter, musician
1943 - Billy Cunningham, was born. Basketball star, executive
1943 - A mob of 60 members of the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot (see Zoot Suit Riots).
1944 - Edith McGuire, was born. American sprinter
1946 - Ian Hunter, was born. Musician ("Mott the Hoople") .
1946 - Estados Unidos e Inglaterra restituem a Portugal as bases açorianas.
1948 - Juan Manuel Frutos Escurra assume a presidência do Paraguai.
1950 - Melissa Mathison, was born. American screenwriter
1950 - Suzi Quatro, was born. American musician, actress
1950 - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.
1958 - Proclamada a independência de Singapura.
1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney.
1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris killing 130.
1962 - Fundação da Igreja Pentecostal 'Deus é Amor' (Brasil).
1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia killing 101.
1963 - Rudy Demotte, was born. Belgian politician.
1961 - Lawrence Lessig was born , American lawyer, author, Free Culture advocate
1963 - Pope John XXIII dies (b. 1881)
1964 - Kerry King, was born. American musician.
1964 - Morte do escritor finlandês Frans Eemil Sillanpaa. Prémio Nobel em 1939.
1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi day mission by an American crew. Edward H. White floated free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time for 21 minutes.
1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
1968 - Saffron, was born. Nigerian lead singer of Republica.
1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him thrice.
1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The show premiered on September 8, 1966.
1969 - Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1970 - Esther Hart, was born. Dutch singer .
1971 - Nascimento de Luigi Di Biagio. Jogador italiano de futebol.
1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1973 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which will be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999.
1974 - Portugal estabece relações diplomáticas com a Roménia
1975 - Morte de Eisaku Sato. Primeiro-ministro do Japão (1964-1972)
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. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
1985 - Morte do pintor uruguaio José Pedro Costigliolo
1986 - Rafael Nadal, was born. Spanish tennis player
1986 - Morte do naturalista brasileiro Augusto Ruschi (o "cientista dos beija-flores")
1987 - Lalaine, was born. Actress.
1988 - A Espanha e a Argentina firmaram um Acordo de Cooperação e Amizade
1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1989 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini died.
1991 - In an incident at Hankuk University in Seoul, South Korea, students throw eggs at South Korean prime minister Chung Won Shik.
1992 - Os dinamarqueses votaram NÃO aos acordos de Maastrich
1996 - Dr. Fernando Jose de Franca Dias Van Dunem assume (2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Angola.
1996 - Morte de Tito Okello . Presidente do Uganda (1985-1986)
1997 - Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister of France.
1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.
1998 - Teen idol Brad Renfro is arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee, charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine.
2000 - Morte do economista americano Merton Miller. Prémio Nobel em 1990.
2001 - Eleição de Alejandro Toledo para a presidência do Perú.
2001 - Anthony Quinn, dies (b. 1915). Mexican-American actor
2003 - Felix de Weldon, dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
2003 - Amelia Veja , Miss República Dominicana, é a nova Miss Universo.
2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, dies (b. 1936). Mother of Diana, Princess of Wales .
Feast day of St Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda
Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona


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