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Events on the 3rd of June in history

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03 Jun 0350 The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
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03 Jun 0713 The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
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03 Jun 1098 After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
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03 Jun 1140 The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
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03 Jun 1326 The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
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03 Jun 1357 Peace of Aat
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03 Jun 1509 Henry VIII married wife No 1, Catherine of Aragon
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03 Jun 1539 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
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03 Jun 1540 Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so
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03 Jun 1608 Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
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03 Jun 1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY)
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03 Jun 1621 WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded
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03 Jun 1621 The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
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03 Jun 1658 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
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03 Jun 1665 Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
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03 Jun 1665 James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
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03 Jun 1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
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03 Jun 1752 Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire
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03 Jun 1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
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03 Jun 1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
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03 Jun 1781 Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
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03 Jun 1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
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03 Jun 1818 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends
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03 Jun 1833 4th national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
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03 Jun 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.
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03 Jun 1851 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers
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03 Jun 1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine
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03 Jun 1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
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03 Jun 1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, West Virginia
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03 Jun 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
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03 Jun 1862 A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
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03 Jun 1864 Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
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03 Jun 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
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03 Jun 1866 The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
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03 Jun 1871 Jesse James and his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000
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03 Jun 1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
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03 Jun 1876 Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada
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03 Jun 1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party National convention chair
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03 Jun 1885 In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
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03 Jun 1886 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda
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03 Jun 1888 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
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03 Jun 1888 The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
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03 Jun 1889 The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
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03 Jun 1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
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03 Jun 1906 Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession
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03 Jun 1911 "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
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03 Jun 1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
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03 Jun 1916 National Defense Act establishes ROTC
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03 Jun 1916 The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
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03 Jun 1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
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03 Jun 1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
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03 Jun 1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
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03 Jun 1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
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03 Jun 1925 Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
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03 Jun 1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
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03 Jun 1925 White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit
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03 Jun 1929 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
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03 Jun 1929 Border dispute between Peru and Chile resolved
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03 Jun 1929 Chile, Peru and Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
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03 Jun 1930 Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
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03 Jun 1932 John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
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03 Jun 1932 Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
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03 Jun 1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
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03 Jun 1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
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03 Jun 1935 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
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03 Jun 1935 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
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03 Jun 1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
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03 Jun 1937 The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
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03 Jun 1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
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03 Jun 1939 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
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03 Jun 1939 Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
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03 Jun 1940 Last British / French troop leave Dunkirk
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03 Jun 1940 World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
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03 Jun 1940 World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
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03 Jun 1940 Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
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03 Jun 1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
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03 Jun 1941 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
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03 Jun 1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
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03 Jun 1941 World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
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03 Jun 1942 Battle of Midway Island begins
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03 Jun 1942 World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
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03 Jun 1943 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms
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03 Jun 1943 In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
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03 Jun 1944 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
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03 Jun 1944 Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
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03 Jun 1944 Nazis pull out of Rome
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03 Jun 1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
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03 Jun 1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
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03 Jun 1946 US Supreme court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional
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03 Jun 1947 British Viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
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03 Jun 1948 "Sleepy Hallow" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 12 performances
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03 Jun 1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
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03 Jun 1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
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03 Jun 1949 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
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03 Jun 1949 Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
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03 Jun 1949 GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer
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03 Jun 1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
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03 Jun 1950 The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
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03 Jun 1952 Romanian Premier Petru Groza chosen President
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03 Jun 1953 Alexander Cartwright founded baseball and not Abner Doubleday
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03 Jun 1953 Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving
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03 Jun 1953 KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham / Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
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03 Jun 1955 KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Jun 1955 Stan Musial hits his 300th HR
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03 Jun 1956 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
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03 Jun 1956 KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Jun 1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open
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03 Jun 1958 Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
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03 Jun 1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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03 Jun 1959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
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03 Jun 1959 Eisenhower routes Canadian Premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
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03 Jun 1959 Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1
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03 Jun 1959 Singapore adopts constitution
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03 Jun 1959 Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire.
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03 Jun 1961 "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances
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03 Jun 1961 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2
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03 Jun 1961 JFK and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
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03 Jun 1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
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03 Jun 1962 Betsy Rawls and Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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03 Jun 1962 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
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03 Jun 1962 WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Jun 1962 At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
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03 Jun 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.
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03 Jun 1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis
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03 Jun 1964 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
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03 Jun 1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
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03 Jun 1965 The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
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03 Jun 1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
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03 Jun 1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
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03 Jun 1967 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8
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03 Jun 1968 Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
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03 Jun 1968 Poor Peoples March on Washington
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03 Jun 1968 Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
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03 Jun 1968 Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
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03 Jun 1969 Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
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03 Jun 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.
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03 Jun 1970 1st artificial gene synthesized
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03 Jun 1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola, " (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
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03 Jun 1971 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0
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03 Jun 1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln, " by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
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03 Jun 1972 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
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03 Jun 1972 Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female US rabbi
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03 Jun 1972 Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
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03 Jun 1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
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03 Jun 1973 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic
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03 Jun 1973 Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed
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03 Jun 1973 A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
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03 Jun 1974 Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
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03 Jun 1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
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03 Jun 1977 Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs. Kansas City Royals)
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03 Jun 1977 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
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03 Jun 1977 US and Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
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03 Jun 1978 Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
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03 Jun 1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
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03 Jun 1979 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win
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03 Jun 1979 Ex-President Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya
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03 Jun 1979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
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03 Jun 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
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03 Jun 1979 A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
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03 Jun 1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
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03 Jun 1980 ESPN begins televising college world series games
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03 Jun 1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
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03 Jun 1980 New York Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
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03 Jun 1980 The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
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03 Jun 1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
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03 Jun 1982 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
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03 Jun 1982 Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians
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03 Jun 1982 The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
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03 Jun 1984 "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances
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03 Jun 1984 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
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03 Jun 1984 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing and La Cage Aux Folles win
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03 Jun 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.
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03 Jun 1985 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
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03 Jun 1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
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03 Jun 1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
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03 Jun 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors, " released in France
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03 Jun 1987 Cubs and Astro tie Oriole and Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
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03 Jun 1987 The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.
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03 Jun 1988 "Big, " premieres in US
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03 Jun 1988 Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
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03 Jun 1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
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03 Jun 1989 Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
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03 Jun 1989 Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
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03 Jun 1989 Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
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03 Jun 1989 Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall
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03 Jun 1989 The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
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03 Jun 1990 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath and City of Angels win
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03 Jun 1990 Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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03 Jun 1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
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03 Jun 1991 New York Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft
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03 Jun 1991 Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title
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03 Jun 1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
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03 Jun 1992 Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
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03 Jun 1992 Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
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03 Jun 1993 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
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03 Jun 1994 5.9 earthquake / floods SE Java (150+ killed)
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03 Jun 1994 Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27)
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03 Jun 1994 WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
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03 Jun 2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
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03 Jun 2013 The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
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