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Today in history, 3 June
eduguru 0 Comments 000, 000 barrels (480, 000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, 000 men, 000-metre peak, 1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy, 1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark, 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain, 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland, 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France, 1665 – James Stuart, 1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton, 1839 – In Humen, 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, 1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, 1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson, 1940 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat, 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris, 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants, 1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island, 1943 – In Los Angeles, 1950 – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8, 1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, 1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, 1969 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3, 1980 – An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty, 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1984 – Operation Blue Star, 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation, 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, 1992 – Aboriginal land rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), 1998 – After suffering a mechanical failure, 2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence, 2012 – A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, 2012 – The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames, 2013 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China, 2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, 2017 – London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists, 3 June, 3 june in history, 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, a case brought by Eddie Mabo, a crew member, a high speed train derails at Eschede, a military offensive, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, all of them either researchers or journalists, also known as the Golden Temple, an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl, and its related observances, Argentina), beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Big Bear, California, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $891 million in 2017) worth of damage, Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), China, Christian feast day, Clotilde, Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky Louisiana and Tennessee United States), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), Economist day (Buenos Aires, Ed White, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators, escapes the North-West Mounted Police, Evans in half, Events on 3 june, France, Germany, He is succeeded by Anastasios II, holiday on 3 june, in Amritsar, in excess of 5, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed, Japan, June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), Kevin of Glendalough, killing 101 people, killing 130, killing 14, killing 43 people, killing everyone on board and 10 people on the ground, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1, Mabo Day (Australia), Martyr's Day (Uganda), Maryland, most of them civilians, Navy destroyer USS Frank E, Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots, Nigeria, now West Virginia, of the Constantinian dynasty, Ontario back into the United States, Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan), Oregon, Ovidius, performs the first American spacewalk, proclaims himself Roman emperor, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, Quebec, resulting in the First Opium War, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, s, Shlomo Argov, South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U, the Cree leader, The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, The operation continues until June 6, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded, Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police, Today in History, Today in history 3 June, Virginia, Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox), What Happened on June 3, white U, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army, with casualties, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, World Bicycle Day, World Clubfoot Day
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