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History of 3 June

History of 3 June

1923 – In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.

1932 – Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs.

1937 – The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.

1938 – The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”

1952 – A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.

1959 – The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Denver, CO.

1965 – Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a “space walk” when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.

1970 – Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.

1985 – After five years, the characters of Nancy and Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV’s “As the World Turns.”

1989 – Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

1999 – Slobodan Milosevic’s government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.

1999 – Dennis Muren received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2003 – Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat. (Illinois, Florida)

2003 – Toys “R” Us, Inc. announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement with Albertson to become the exclusive toy provider for all of Albertson’s food and drug stores.

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, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and 10 people on the ground.

2012 – The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.

2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

2013 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

2015 – An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.

2017 – London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.

Celebrating Birthday Today

  • 1980 – Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
  • 1981 – Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
  • 1982 – Manfred Mölgg, Italian skier
  • 1983 – Pasquale Foggia, Italian footballer
  • 1985 – Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
  • 1985 – Łukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
  • 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
  • 1986 – Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner
  • 1986 – Rafael Nadal, a Spanish tennis player
  • 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver
  • 1986 – Tomáš Verner, Czech ice skater
  • 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
  • 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
  • 1991 – Lukasz Teodorczyk, Polish footballer
  • 1991 – Sami Vatanen, Finnish ice hockey defenceman
  • 1991 – Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (d. 2017)
  • 1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
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