June 3
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1861 - American political figure Stephen Douglas died at age 48 from typhoid fever.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of Britain, married American Wallis Simpson.
1943 - Los Angeles saw the beginning of its “Zoot Suit Riots” as white servicemen clashed with young Latinos wearing distinctive-looking zoot suits; the violence finally ended when military officials declared the city off limits to enlisted personnel.
1948 - The 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated.
1962 - Air France Flight 007, a U.S.-bound Boeing 707, crashed while attempting to take off from Orly Airport near Paris; all but two of the 132 people aboard were killed.
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
1965 - Maj. Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1977 - The United States and Cuba agreed to set up diplomatic interests sections in each other’s countries; Cuba also announced the immediate release of 10 Americans jailed on drug charges.
1979 - The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.
1989 - Chinese army troops headed into Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini died.
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.
2001 - Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.
2004 - President George W. Bush announced the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet amid a controversy over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the September 11 terrorist attacks.
2008 - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
2009 - New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2009 - Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted he had “done wrong” and hurt others but strongly denied breaking the law after federal prosecutors charged him with using $925,000 in under-the-table campaign contributions to hide his mistress and baby during his 2008 White House run. (After a 2012 trial in North Carolina, jurors acquitted Edwards on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other counts; prosecutors decided against retrying the case.)
2010 - BP sliced off a pipe with giant shears to make way for a cap in the latest bid to curtail the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
2011 - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebel rockets barraged his palace; he later went to Saudi Arabia for treatment.
2011 - Physician-assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at a Michigan hospital at age 83.
2020 - Prosecutors charged three more police officers in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge of second-degree murder against Derek Chauvin, the officer who was caught on video pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck. (Chauvin would be convicted on all charges.)
Birthdays
27 - Anne Winters (actress)
28 - Sean Berdy (actor)
34 - Lalaine (singer/actress)
34 - Michelle Keegan (actress)
35 - Josh Segarra (actor)
35 - Rafael Nadal (tennis player)
40 - Nikki M. James (actress)
47 - Arianna Zucker (actress)
50 - Vik Sahay (actor)
54 - Anderson Cooper (TV host)
57 - James Purefoy (actor)
63 - Scott Valentine (actor)
63 - Suzie Plakson (actress)
70 - Jill Biden (wife of President Joe Biden)
71 - Deneice Williams (singer)
75 - Tristan Rogers (actor)
75 - Penelope Wilton (actress)
76 - Hale Irwin (golfer)
86 - Irma P. Hall (actress)
=========================================
Today in Sports History - June 3
1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. They wore straw hats, white shirts and blue trousers.
1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1925 - Eddie Collins records his 3,000th career hit.
1932 - Lou Gehrig became the first American League player to hit four home runs in one game.
1955 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 300th career home run.
1980 - ESPN began televising College World Series baseball games.
1980 - The New York Mets select 18-year-old Darryl Strawberry with the first pick in the MLB Draft.
1987 - The Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros combined for three grand slams in one game.
1989 - Nolan Ryan throws his second one-hitter of the season and 11th of his career.
1989 - The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4. The game lasted 22 innings and took over seven hours to play.
2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.
2012 - In winning the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield, Tiger Woods records his 73rd PGA Tour victory, tying Jack Nicklaus' record.
2016 - Legendary heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali died at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 74.
2018 - Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors breaks Ray Allen's NBA Finals record for most 3-pointers in a game with nine in a 122-103 Game 2 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1861 - American political figure Stephen Douglas died at age 48 from typhoid fever.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of Britain, married American Wallis Simpson.
1943 - Los Angeles saw the beginning of its “Zoot Suit Riots” as white servicemen clashed with young Latinos wearing distinctive-looking zoot suits; the violence finally ended when military officials declared the city off limits to enlisted personnel.
1948 - The 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated.
1962 - Air France Flight 007, a U.S.-bound Boeing 707, crashed while attempting to take off from Orly Airport near Paris; all but two of the 132 people aboard were killed.
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
1965 - Maj. Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1977 - The United States and Cuba agreed to set up diplomatic interests sections in each other’s countries; Cuba also announced the immediate release of 10 Americans jailed on drug charges.
1979 - The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.
1989 - Chinese army troops headed into Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini died.
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.
2001 - Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.
2004 - President George W. Bush announced the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet amid a controversy over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the September 11 terrorist attacks.
2008 - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
2009 - New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2009 - Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted he had “done wrong” and hurt others but strongly denied breaking the law after federal prosecutors charged him with using $925,000 in under-the-table campaign contributions to hide his mistress and baby during his 2008 White House run. (After a 2012 trial in North Carolina, jurors acquitted Edwards on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other counts; prosecutors decided against retrying the case.)
2010 - BP sliced off a pipe with giant shears to make way for a cap in the latest bid to curtail the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
2011 - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebel rockets barraged his palace; he later went to Saudi Arabia for treatment.
2011 - Physician-assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at a Michigan hospital at age 83.
2020 - Prosecutors charged three more police officers in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge of second-degree murder against Derek Chauvin, the officer who was caught on video pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck. (Chauvin would be convicted on all charges.)
Birthdays
27 - Anne Winters (actress)
28 - Sean Berdy (actor)
34 - Lalaine (singer/actress)
34 - Michelle Keegan (actress)
35 - Josh Segarra (actor)
35 - Rafael Nadal (tennis player)
40 - Nikki M. James (actress)
47 - Arianna Zucker (actress)
50 - Vik Sahay (actor)
54 - Anderson Cooper (TV host)
57 - James Purefoy (actor)
63 - Scott Valentine (actor)
63 - Suzie Plakson (actress)
70 - Jill Biden (wife of President Joe Biden)
71 - Deneice Williams (singer)
75 - Tristan Rogers (actor)
75 - Penelope Wilton (actress)
76 - Hale Irwin (golfer)
86 - Irma P. Hall (actress)
=========================================
Today in Sports History - June 3
1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. They wore straw hats, white shirts and blue trousers.
1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1925 - Eddie Collins records his 3,000th career hit.
1932 - Lou Gehrig became the first American League player to hit four home runs in one game.
1955 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 300th career home run.
1980 - ESPN began televising College World Series baseball games.
1980 - The New York Mets select 18-year-old Darryl Strawberry with the first pick in the MLB Draft.
1987 - The Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros combined for three grand slams in one game.
1989 - Nolan Ryan throws his second one-hitter of the season and 11th of his career.
1989 - The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4. The game lasted 22 innings and took over seven hours to play.
2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.
2012 - In winning the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield, Tiger Woods records his 73rd PGA Tour victory, tying Jack Nicklaus' record.
2016 - Legendary heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali died at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 74.
2018 - Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors breaks Ray Allen's NBA Finals record for most 3-pointers in a game with nine in a 122-103 Game 2 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
