Saturday, June 3, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― JUNE 3

June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of the year.

NATIONAL REPEAT DAY 



1083 ― Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral in his first Italian campaign, defeating the Lombards


1098 ― After 5-month siege in the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (now in modern Turkey).

1539 ― Explorer Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.


1620 
― Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

1621 ― The Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa).

1864 
― General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor.


1871 
― Jesse Woodson James and his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000.


1889 
― The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. The last spike was driven by Donald Smith, known as Lord Strathcona, at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

1906 
― Belgian King Leopold II claims the Congo as his private possession.


1916 
― The U.S. National Defense Act, signed by President Woodrow Wilson,  establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).

1918 
― The U.S. Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional in Hammer v. Dagenhart.


1935 
― French liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours.


1937 
― In France, the Duke of Windsor–formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland–marries Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne in December 1936.


1940 ― On this day in 1940, the German air force bombs Paris, killing 254 people, most of them civilians.

1940 ― The last British/French troops are evacuated from Dunkirk to England during the German invasion of France in WWII.


1943 
― A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.


1944 
― The Nazis abandon Rome to the Allies during WWII.


1949 
― The first African American graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown).

1957 ― On this day in 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the chemical company E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. must give up its large stock interest in the Detroit-based automobile company General Motors on the grounds that it constituted a monopoly, or a concentration of power that reduced competition or otherwise interfered with trade.


1959 ― The first U.S. Air Force Academy graduation takes place in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


1961 ― President John F. Kennedy and Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna.


1964 
― The Rolling Stones begin their first U.S. tour (with Bobby Goldsboro and  Bobby Vee).



1974 ― Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government.

1976 
― The United States is presented with oldest known copy of the Magna Carta (signed in 1215), written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin.


1981 
― Pope John Paul II is released from hospital after an assassination attempt.

1989 
― In a freak and tragic accident, a natural-gas pipeline explodes in Russia’s Ural Mountains just as two trains pass it, killing 500.


1990 ― U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev end their three-day summit meeting with warm words of friendship but without any concrete agreement concerning German reunification.

2001 ― Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period.

2007 ― The USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details). -- CNN.com


2012 
― Dana Air Flight 992 crashes in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground.

2013 
― The United States extends sanctions against Iran through its automotive industry and currency.


BORN TODAY

1554Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1604)

1865George V of the United Kingdom, Monarch and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II (d. 1936)

1931Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba


From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.  

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