What are the important events that happened on June 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 3 is the 154^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 21, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,748,908,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontatetragon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 259 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,547 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 3 Historical Events

• 1621 –
  The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
• 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.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
• 1866 –
  The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
• 1888 –
  The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
• 1916 –
  The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1932 –
  Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
• 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.
• 1991 –
  Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
• 2006 –
  The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.

Who were born on June 3?

• 1844 –
  Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
• 1864 –
  Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
• 1879 –
  Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
• 1899 –
  Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
• 1927 –
  Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
• 1933 –
  Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
• 1946 –
  Eddie Holman, American singer
• 1946 –
  Penelope Wilton, British actress
• 1968 –
  Jamie O'Neal, American singer
• 1987 –
  Michelle Keegan, British actress

Who died on June 3?

• 1657 –
  William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• 1946 –
  Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (b. 1875)
• 1963 –
  Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1970 –
  Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
• 1991 –
  Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
• 1991 –
  Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
• 1992 –
  Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
• 2004 –
  Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
• 2009 –
  David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2010 –
  John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)