On this day in History - Jun 3

• 0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey.
• 1140 - French scholar, Peter Abelard found guilty of heresy.
• 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1411 - Leopold IV dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
• 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.
• 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa dies (b. 1590). Portuguese historian and poet.
• 1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 1659 - David Gregory was born (d. 10 Oct 1708). Scottish mathematician.
• 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• 1726 - James Hutton was born (d. 26 Mar 1797). Scottish geologist.
• 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
• 1770 - Manuel Belgrano was born (d. 1820). Argentine lawyer and politician.
• 1780 - Thomas Hutchinson dies (b. 1711). American colonial governor of Massachusetts
• 1793 - Antoni Malczewski was born (d. 2 May 1826). Polish writer.
• 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 (d. 18 Dec 1882). American philosophical theologian.
• 1832 - Charles Lecocq was born (24 Oct 1918). French composer of operettas.
• 1844 - Pail Mansion was born (d. 16 Apr 1919). Belgian mathematician.
• 1844 - Detlev von Liliencron was born (d. 1909). German poet.
• 1849 - Leopold Gegenbauer dies (b. 2 Feb 1849). Aistrian mathematician.
• 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".
• 1856 - Cullen Whipple of Providence, RI patented the screw machine.
• 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.1
• 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae dies (b. 1812). Expert on Byzantine Law.
• 1896 - Inventor Guglielmo Marconi was granted his first patent in Britain for the radio.
• 1898 - Rosa Chacel was born. Spanish novelist.
• 1899 - Johann Strauss II dies (b. 1825). Austrian composer.
• 1899 - Georg von Békésy was born in Budapes (d. 13 Jun 1972). Hungarian-born 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. Brazilian 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.
• 1907 - Centro Escolar University was established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
• 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 born. 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). Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis).
• 1925 - Tony Curtis was born. American actor (Some Like It Hot, The Great Impostor, The Defiant Ones, Houdini, Trapeze, The Boston Strangler, Christmas in Connecticut, The Count of Monte Cristo)
• 1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz was born. Writer
• 1926 - Allen Ginsberg was born in Paterson, N.J. (d. 5 April 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 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
• 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 - The Band Wagon, a Broadway musical, opened in New York City. The show ran for 260 performances.
• 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.
• 1941 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
• 1942 - World War II - US and Japanese naval forces began the Battle of Midway, in the Pacific.
• 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 sprinter1946 - Ian Hunter, was born. Musician ("Mott the Hoople") .
• 1944 - Charles de Gaulle became Prime Minister of France.
• 1946 - Estados Unidos e Inglaterra restituem a Portugal as bases açorianas.
• 1947 - Michael Burton was born. American Olympic Gold medalist: 1,500-meter freestyle [1968, 1972], 400-meter freestyle [1968].
• 1948 - Juan Manuel Frutos Escurra assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1950 - Melissa Mathison was born. American screenwriter.
• 1950 - Deniece Williams was born. Ssinger (Let’s Hear It for the Boy, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late [w/Johnny Mathis], Free, It’s Gonna Take a Miracle)
• 1950 - Suzi Quatro was born. American musician, actress
• 1950 - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
• 1950 - Paulo Branco was born in Lisbon. Portuguese film producer. Founder of production companies Madragoa Filmes (Portugal), Gemini Films (France) and Spider Pictures (England). Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.
• 1951 - Denniece_Williams was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1951 - Christopher Cross was born in Texas. American singer (Sailing)
• 1952 - Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
• 1952 - Frank Sinatra recorded the classic Birth of the Blues for Columbia Records.
• 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.
• 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel was born. German field hockey player
• 1959 - Real Madrid wins 4th Champions Europeans Cup.
• 1959 - Singapore became self-governing.
• 1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney.
• 1961 - Lawrence Lessig was born. American lawyer, author, Free Culture advocate
• 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.
• 1963 - Pope John XXIII dies (b. 1881)
• 1964 - Kerry King was born. American musician.
• 1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää dies (b. 1888). Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 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 was born. American reporter
• 1968 - Saffron was born. Nigerian lead singer of Republica.
• 1968 - Jamie O'Neal was born. American singer
• 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him in his New York film studio, The Factory.
• 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 - Luigi Di Biagio was born. Italian footballer.
• 1971 - Ariel Hernandez and Gabriel Hernandez were born in Havana, Cuba. Singers (No Mercy)
• 1971 - Heinz Hopf dies (b. 19 Nov 1894). German mathematician.
• 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.
• 1974 - Kelly Jones was born. Welsh singer.
• 1975 - Eisaku Sato dies. Prime- Minister of Japan (1964-1972).
• 1976 - Yuri Ruley was born. American drummer (MxPx)
• 1977 - Cristiano Marques Gomez was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1977 - Roberto Rossellini dies (b. 1906). Italian film director (Roma citt… aperta).
• 1979 - 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win
• 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.
• 1980 - Naum Il'ich Akihieaer dies in Karkhov (b. 6 Mar 1901). Belarussian mathematician.
• 1984 - 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
• 1985 - José Pedro Costigliolo dies. Uruguyan painter
• 1986 - Rafael Nadal was born. Spanish tennis player
• 1986 - Morte do naturalista brasileiro Augusto Ruschi (o "cientista dos beija-flores")
• 1987 - Lalaine was born. American 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.
• 1990 - 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win
• 1991 - In an incident at Hankuk University in Seoul, South Korea, students throw eggs at South Korean prime minister Chung Won Shik.
• 1991 - Em Lisboa, no Instituto de Oncologia, Manuel Abecassis, cirurgião português, realiza pela primeira vez um autotransplante de medula congelada a uma criança de 10 anos de idade.
• 1992 - World's largest environmental summit opens (Rio De Janeiro Brazil)
• 1992 - Os dinamarqueses votaram NÃO aos acordos de Maastrich
• 1992 - Robert Morley dies (b. 1908). English actor.
• 1995 - John Eckert dies (b. 9 Apr 1919). American engineer and mathematician.
• 1996 - 29 people were arrested in Bahrain, foiling what was thought to be an Iranian-backed coup attempt against the minority Sunni Muslim al-Khalifa family that has ruled Bahrain since the late 18th century.
• 1996 - Pol Pot dies. Leader of the Khmer Rouge.
• 1996 - Dr. Fernando Jose de Franca Dias Van Dunem assume (2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Angola.
• 1996 - Tito Okello dies. President of Uganda (1985-1986)
• 1996 - Peter Glenville dies. Actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)
• 1997 - Lionel Jospin, the Socialist Party leader, 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.
• 1999 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
• 2000 - Estelle Gullit /Ruud Gullit wedding.
• 2000 - Merton Miller dies. American economist who won The Nobel Prize in 1990.
• 2001 - Mel Brooks' musical comedy ''The Producers'' won a record 12 Tony Awards.
• 2001 - Alejandro Toledo is elected to President of Peru.
• 2001 - Anthony Quinn dies (b. 1915). Mexican-American actor
• 2003 - Felix de Weldon dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
• 2003 - Amelia Veja, Miss República Dominicana, is elected Miss Universe.
• 2004 - Frances Shand Kydd dies (b. 1936). Mother of Diana, Princess of Wales .
• 2005 - Harold Cardinal dies (b. 1945). Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer.
• Feast day of St Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda
• Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona