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 155th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 21, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,717,372,800 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 ‘hectapentacontapentagon’ 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 240 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 4,182 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 3 Historical Events
- 1140 –French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
- 1326 –Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
- 1608 –Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- 1620 –Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
- 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.
- 1889 –The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 mi between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
- 1963 –A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
- 1968 –Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
Who were born on June 3?
- 1808 –Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
- 1879 –Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
- 1924 –Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
- 1924 –M. Karunanidhi, Indian Politician
- 1937 –Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1959 –John Carlson, American talk radio host
- 1970 –Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
- 1971 –John Hodgman, American author and humorist
- 1976 –Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
- 1976 –Yuri Ruley, American drummer
Who died on June 3?
- 1548 –Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
- 1649 –Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
- 1659 –Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
- 1899 –Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
- 1928 –Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
- 1963 –Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- 1991 –Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
- 1991 –Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
- 2010 –John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
- 2010 –Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
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