June 3

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 350 &ndash; Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, ending Rome, leading a group of gladiators.
* 1326 &ndash; The Treaty of Novgorod determines the border between Russia and the Finnmark region of northern Norway.
* 1539 &ndash; Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
* 1608 &ndash; Samuel de Champlain completes his 3rd voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
* 1621 &ndash; The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for the New Netherlands.
* 1665 &ndash; Future–King James II of England/James VII of Scotland defeats the Dutch fleet off Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.
* 1769 &ndash; At Tahiti, James Cook observes the transit of Venus.
* 1781 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett makes a midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
* 1789 &ndash; From Fort Chipewyan, a Alexander MacKenzie–led expedition, to find a river link to the Pacific Ocean coast of Canada, sets off.
* 1839 &ndash; In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium taken from British merchants, providing the United Kingdom with the "casus belli" to begin hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
* 1858 &ndash; Francis Thomas Gregory climbs the world's biggest monolith (single piece of rock), Mount Augustus in Western Australia. He names the rock after his brother, Augustus Gregory.
* 1861 &ndash; American Civil War: Union troops defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Philippi in Virginia.
* 1864 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
* 1885 &ndash; Last military engagement on Canadian soil – Cree leader Big Bear escapes from the North–West Mounted Police.
* 1889 &ndash; The Transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
* 1889 &ndash; The first long–distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, 14 miles (23 kilometres) from a Generator at Willamette Falls in Oregon to Portland, Oregon.
* 1916 &ndash; The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard.
* 1937 &ndash; Almost 6 months after his abdication as King, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marries Wallis Simpson.
* 1940 &ndash; World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends, as Allied forces retreat.
* 1940 &ndash; World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
* 1940 &ndash; Franz Redemacher proposes Madagascar as the "Jewish Homeland".
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the village of Kandanos, Greece, to the ground, killing 180 of its residents.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: Japan begins its Aleutian Islands campaign by attacking Unalaska Island.
* 1947 &ndash; Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma announces the planned Partition of India.
* 1950 &ndash; Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It is the first successful ascent of a mountain higher than 8000 metres.

### From 1951 
* 1959 &ndash; Singapore is declared a self–governing state, though remaining within the British Empire.
* 1961 &ndash; US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna, Austria, for talks.
* 1962 &ndash; A Boeing 707 plane crashes near Paris, killing 130 people.
* 1963 &ndash; A Northwest Airlines DC–7 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada, killing 101 people.
* 1965 &ndash; NASA Gemini 4 mission: Crew member Edward Higgins White becomes the first American to perform a spacewalk.
* 1968 &ndash; Valerie Solanas attempts to kill artist Andy Warhol.
* 1969 &ndash; Off South Vietnam, Australian aircraft carrier HMAS *Melbourne* cuts United States Navy destroyer USS *Frank E. Evans* in half.
* 1973 &ndash; The Supersonic Tupolev Tu–144 plane crashes in France, killing 14 people.
* 1979 &ndash; The Ixtoc I oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst–ever oil spills.
* 1980 &ndash; Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, killing 5 people and destroying many homes.
* 1982 &ndash; Shlomo Argov, Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt in London.
* 1984 &ndash; The Indian government's Operation Blue Star military offensive begins at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
* 1989 &ndash; The crushing of protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing begins. Hundreds of people are killed.
* 1989 &ndash; Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
* 1991 &ndash; Mount Unzen on Kyushu, Japan, erupts, killing 43 people, all of them researchers or journalists.
* 1992 &ndash; Aboriginal land rights are granted in Australia.
* 1993 &ndash; France and Spain recognize the independence of Andorra.
* 1998 &ndash; A major train derailment occurs in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
* 2003 &ndash; A train crash in Chinchilla, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, kills 19 people and injures around 50.
* 2006 &ndash; Montenegro becomes independent.
* 2008 &ndash; Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, over Hillary Clinton.
* 2010 &ndash; The name of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, is officially changed back to Haida Gwaii.
* 2012 &ndash; Dana Air Flight 997 crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board and more than 40 on the ground.
* 2017 &ndash; The June 2017 London attack is carried out, killing 8 people in a car–ramming and stabbing attack.
* 2018 &ndash; The Volcan de Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing at least 69 people.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 20 BC &ndash; Sejanus, Roman political figure (d. 31)
* 1537 &ndash; John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
* 1540 &ndash; Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
* 1579 &ndash; Jens Munk, Danish–Norwegian explorer (d. 1628)
* 1635 &ndash; Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688).
* 1636 &ndash; John Hale, American minister (d. 1700)
* 1659 &ndash; David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
* 1723 &ndash; Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian naturalist (d. 1788)
* 1726 &ndash; James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
* 1770 &ndash; Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general (d. 1820)
* 1808 &ndash; Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
* 1819 &ndash; Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader (d. 1892)
* 1832 &ndash; Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
* 1840 &ndash; Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (d. 1867)
* 1843 &ndash; King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
* 1844 &ndash; Detlev von Lilencron, German poet (d. 1909)
* 1844 &ndash; Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
* 1853 &ndash; Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
* 1864 &ndash; Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
* 1865 &ndash; King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
* 1872 &ndash; Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1919)
* 1873 &ndash; Otto Loewi, German doctor, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
* 1876 &ndash; Nikolay Burdenko, Russian surgeon (d. 1946)
* 1877 &ndash; Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
* 1878 &ndash; Barney Oldfield, American racing driver (d. 1946)
* 1879 &ndash; Alla Nazimova, Russian–American movie and theatre actress (d. 1945)
* 1881 &ndash; Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
* 1885 &ndash; Yakov Sverdlov, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1919)
* 1890 &ndash; Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1954)
* 1895 &ndash; Zoltan Korda, movie director (d. 1961)
* 1897 &ndash; Memphis Minnie, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
* 1899 &ndash; Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian physicist and physiologist (d. 1972)
* 1900 &ndash; Leo Picard, German–Israeli geologist (d. 1997)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
* 1901 &ndash; Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (d. 2001)
* 1903 &ndash; Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
* 1904 &ndash; Charles Drew, American surgeon (d. 1950)
* 1906 &ndash; Josephine Baker, American–born dancer (d. 1975)
* 1910 &ndash; Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
* 1910 &ndash; Wilfred Thesiger, English explorer and writer (d. 2003)
* 1911 &ndash; Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
* 1913 &ndash; Lloyd Percival, Canadian tennis player, boxer, cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
* 1917 &ndash; Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
* 1922 &ndash; Alain Resnais, French director (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician (d. 2017)
* 1924 &ndash; M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)
* 1924 &ndash; Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (d. 2018)
* 1924 &ndash; Bernard Glasser, American actor (d. 2014)
* 1924 &ndash; Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
* 1924 &ndash; Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize winner
* 1925 &ndash; Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
* 1925 &ndash; Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001)
* 1926 &ndash; Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
* 1929 &ndash; Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
* 1930 &ndash; Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
* 1930 &ndash; George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician
* 1930 &ndash; Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
* 1931 &ndash; Raul Castro, President of Cuba
* 1931 &ndash; Lindy Remigino, American athlete
* 1933 &ndash; Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
* 1935 &ndash; Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
* 1936 &ndash; Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
* 1937 &ndash; Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
* 1937 &ndash; Edward Winter, American actor
* 1938 &ndash; David L. Mills, American computer engineer
* 1939 &ndash; Ian Hunter, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
* 1940 &ndash; Antonio Brack Egg, Peruvian ecologist and politician (d. 2014)
* 1940 &ndash; Loretta Long, American actress and singer
* 1942 &ndash; Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
* 1943 &ndash; Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
* 1944 &ndash; Edith McGuire, American sprinter
* 1944 &ndash; Mary Thom, American feminist
* 1945 &ndash; Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist and businessman
* 1945 &ndash; John Derbyshire, British–American mathematician and political commentator
* 1945 &ndash; Hale Irwin, American golfer
* 1946 &ndash; Michael Clarke, American drummer (d. 1993)
* 1946 &ndash; Eddie Holman, American singer
* 1946 &ndash; Penelope Wilton, English actress
* 1947 &ndash; Mickey Finn, English singer and musician (d. 1993)
* 1948 &ndash; Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
* 1949 &ndash; Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican singer
* 1950 &ndash; Melissa Mathison, American film and television screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1950 &ndash; Suzi Quatro, American rock musician
* 1950 &ndash; Deniece Williams, American singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States
* 1952 &ndash; Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
* 1954 &ndash; Dan Hill, Canadian singer
* 1954 &ndash; Bajram Rexhepi, former Prime Minister of Kosovo (d. 2017)
* 1956 &ndash; George Burley, Scottish football manager
* 1956 &ndash; Danny Wilde, American singer and guitarist (The Quick and The Rembrandts)
* 1957 &ndash; Peter de Villiers, South African rugby coach
* 1962 &ndash; Susannah Constantine, English television presenter
* 1963 &ndash; Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Wallonia
* 1964 &ndash; Kerry King, American rock guitarist (Slayer)
* 1964 &ndash; James Purefoy, British actor
* 1965 &ndash; Michael Moore, British politician
* 1965 &ndash; Thomas Ohrner, German actor and television presenter
* 1966 &ndash; Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
* 1967 &ndash; Anderson Cooper, American broadcast journalist
* 1968 &ndash; Saffron, Nigerian singer and dancer
* 1970 &ndash; Greg Hancock, American motorcycle speedway racer
* 1972 &ndash; Julie Gayet, French actress
* 1974 &ndash; Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Laila Samuelsen, Norwegian singer–songwriter
* 1977 &ndash; Cristiano Marques Gomes, Brazilian footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Christian Malcolm, British sprinter
* 1980 &ndash; Amauri, Brazilian–Italian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Ibrahim Yattara, Guinean footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
* 1982 &ndash; Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
* 1982 &ndash; Jodie Whittaker, English actress
* 1984 &ndash; Emily Scott, Australian model
* 1984 &ndash; Prince Félix of Luxembourg
* 1985 &ndash; Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
* 1985 &ndash; Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Lukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
* 1986 &ndash; Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
* 1986 &ndash; Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
* 1987 &ndash; Angela Crawley, Scottish politician
* 1987 &ndash; Michelle Keegan, English actress
* 1987 &ndash; Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
* 1987 &ndash; Lalaine, American actress
* 1989 &ndash; Katie Hoff, American swimmer
* 1989 &ndash; Imogen Poots, British actress
* 1990 &ndash; Fabian Götze, German footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Mario Götze, German footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Otto Porter, American basketball player
* 2006 &ndash; Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal

## Deaths 
### Up to 1975 
* 628 &ndash; Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
* 800 &ndash; Staurakios, Byzantine general
* 1395 &ndash; Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350)
* 1397 &ndash; William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1328)
* 1411 &ndash; Leopold IV, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
* 1615 &ndash; Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
* 1649 &ndash; Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
* 1657 &ndash; William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
* 1780 &ndash; Thomas Hutchinson, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
* 1826 &ndash; Nikolai Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
* 1858 &ndash; Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
* 1861 &ndash; Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
* 1875 &ndash; Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
* 1882 &ndash; Christian Wiberg, German painter (b. 1839)
* 1894 &ndash; Karl Eduard Zachariae, expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
* 1899 &ndash; Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
* 1900 &ndash; Mary Kingsley, English explorer (b. 1862)
* 1906 &ndash; John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
* 1918 &ndash; Ramon Maximiliano Valdes, 7th President of Panama (b. 1867)
* 1924 &ndash; Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
* 1928 &ndash; Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
* 1946 &ndash; Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet–Russian politician (b. 1875)
* 1963 &ndash; Nazim Hikmet (b. 1902)
* 1963 &ndash; Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
* 1964 &ndash; Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer (b. 1888)
* 1969 &ndash; George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
* 1970 &ndash; Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
* 1971 &ndash; Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
* 1975 &ndash; Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
* 1975 &ndash; Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)

### 1976 &ndash; 2010 
* 1977 &ndash; Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
* 1977 &ndash; Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
* 1986 &ndash; Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)
* 1987 &ndash; Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
* 1989 &ndash; Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
* 1990 &ndash; Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22, 1949)
* 1990 &ndash; Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
* 1991 &ndash; Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
* 1991 &ndash; Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
* 1991 &ndash; Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
* 1992 &ndash; Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
* 1994 &ndash; Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
* 1997 &ndash; Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
* 2000 &ndash; Merton Miller, American economist (b. 1923)
* 2001 &ndash; Anthony Quinn, Mexican–American actor (b. 1915)
* 2002 &ndash; Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and studio executive (b. 1913)
* 2003 &ndash; Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
* 2004 &ndash; Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
* 2005 &ndash; Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (b. 1945)
* 2006 &ndash; Johnny Grande, American singer (b. 1932)
* 2009 &ndash; Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
* 2009 &ndash; David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
* 2010 &ndash; Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
* 2010 &ndash; Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)

### From 2011 
* 2011 &ndash; Jack Kevorkian, American physician and assisted suicide activist (b. 1928)
* 2011 &ndash; James Arness, American actor (b. 1923)
* 2012 &ndash; Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
* 2013 &ndash; Frank Lautenberg, United States Senator for New Jersey (b. 1924)
* 2013 &ndash; Jiah Khan, American–born British–Indian actress (b. 1988)
* 2013 &ndash; Atul Chitnis, German–Indian technician (b. 1962)
* 2014 &ndash; Gopinath Munde, Indian politician (b. 1949)
* 2014 &ndash; James Alan Shelton, Australian bluegrass guitarist (b. 1960)
* 2014 &ndash; Karl Harris, British motorcycle racer (b. 1979)
* 2014 &ndash; Svyatoslav Belza, Russian scholar, critic and essayist (b. 1942)
* 2014 &ndash; Virginia Luque, Argentine actress (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Avi Beker, Israeli academic (b. 1951)
* 2015 &ndash; Margaret Juntwait, American radio host (b. 1957)
* 2016 &ndash; Muhammad Ali, American boxer (b. 1942)
* 2016 &ndash; Jocelyn Lovell, Canadian cyclist (b. 1950)
* 2016 &ndash; Sten Lundin, Swedish motocross racer (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
* 2016 &ndash; Dave Swarbrick, English musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
* 2016 &ndash; Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, Dutch malacologist (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; David Choby, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
* 2017 &ndash; Niels Helveg Petersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)
* 2017 &ndash; Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; John K. Watts, Australian footballer and broadcaster (b. 1937)
* 2017 &ndash; Vincent Tshabalala, South African golfer (b. 1942)
* 2018 &ndash; Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
* 2018 &ndash; Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Jerry Hopkins, American journalist and blogger (b. 1935)
* 2018 &ndash; Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926)
* 2018 &ndash; Mario Toros, Italian politician (b. 1922)
* 2018 &ndash; Georg von Tiesenhausen, German–American rocket scientist (b. 1914)

## Observances 
* **World Bicycle Day** 
* European Bicycle Day 
* Montenegro Independence Day
* Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee)