Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 3
This is a list of selected June 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| ; Shavuot begins at sunset (Judaism, 2014) | unreferenced section |
Roman Emperor, entering Rome with a group of gladiators .
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too short |
| 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 1941 – World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos and killed about 180 of its inhabitants. | insufficient inline citations |
Mexican American youths in Los Angeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots .
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too much trivia |
Golden Temple based on accusations they were stockpiling weapons there.
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neutrality issues, refimprove |
| . | multiple issues |
| , Germany, causing 101 deaths and 100 injuries. | refimprove |
| 2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- vicar apostolic of New France.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett made a "midnight ride" to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
- 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1940 – Franz Rademacher, a Nazi government official, proposed that Madagascar should be made available for the resettlement of the Jews of Europe.
- 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launched two aircraft carrier raids on the United States Army barracks and the US Navy base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
- Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130 out of 132 passengers and crew members.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese Army soldiers attacked protesting Buddhists in Huế, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
- broke up in mid-flightand disintegrated, killing the six members of the crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
- 1982 – An assassination attempt on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, failed; this was later used as justification for the 1982 Lebanon War.
- 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established.
- Humen, precipitating the First Opium War.
- abdicated the British throne, he married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony near Tours, France.
- 1968 – American artist Andy Warhol (pictured) and two others were shot and wounded at his New York City studio "The Factory" by radical feminist Valerie Solanas.
- , Nigeria, suffered dual engine failure and crashed into a building, resulting in the deaths of all 153 on board and ten more on the ground.