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

• 1326 –
  Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
• 1620 –
  Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• 1658 –
  Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
• 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.
• 1889 –
  The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
• 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.
• 1968 –
  Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
• 1973 –
  A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
• 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.

Who were born on June 3?

• 1853 –
  William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
• 1907 –
  Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
• 1918 –
  Lili St. Cyr, American stripper (d. 1999)
• 1918 –
  Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
• 1931 –
  John Norman, American author
• 1946 –
  Penelope Wilton, British actress
• 1952 –
  David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
• 1957 –
  Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
• 1969 –
  Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
• 2006 –
  Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch royal family

Who died on June 3?

• 1411 –
  Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
• 1640 –
  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
• 1963 –
  Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 –
  Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 –
  Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
• 1975 –
  Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
• 1987 –
  Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
• 1990 –
  Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
• 1991 –
  Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
• 2009 –
  Koko Taylor, American blues musician (b. 1928)