Tukuk-OS📅 June 3
21 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on June 3? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2025 — Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned after weeks of protests.
Prime Minister of MongoliaLuvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene2025 Mongolian protests
- 1982 — A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, triggering an Israeli decision to invade Lebanon three days later.
- 1979 — Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
- 1973 — At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
Paris Air ShowTupolev Tu-1441973 Paris Air Show Tupolev Tu-144 crash
- 1969 — During a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea, a collision between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans resulted in the latter vessel being cut in two and the deaths of 74 personnel.
Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationSouth China SeaMelbourne–Evans collision
- 1968 — American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, the Factory.
- 1963 — Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese soldiers attacked Buddhist protesters in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
- 1950 — Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
Maurice HerzogLouis Lachenal1950 French Annapurna expedition
- 1941 — World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the German Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos, Greece, and killed about 180 of its inhabitants.
- 1940 — Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
- 1937 — Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in France.
- 1921 — At his trial for the assassination of Talaat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted after arguing: "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer."
Assassination of Talaat PashaArmenian genocideSoghomon Tehlirian
- 1917 — A socialist convention in Leeds, United Kingdom, called for an end to the First World War and the establishment of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates across the country.
Leeds ConventionWorld War ICouncil of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates
- 1892 — Liverpool F.C. (stadium pictured), one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
- 1882 — The British merchant ship Virago sank off Alderney with the loss of 26 crew.
- 1844 — The last known pair of great auks (one pictured), the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed on Eldey, Iceland.
- 1781 — American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
- 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.
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de CarmeloSpanish missions in CaliforniaCarmel-by-the-Sea, California
- 1658 — Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
- 1602 — Anglo-Spanish War: The English navy defeated a Spanish–Portuguese fleet off Sesimbra, Portugal, and captured a carrack.
- 1326 — The Treaty of Novgorod established the border between Norway and the Novgorod Republic in Finnmark.
Births
- 2011 — Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, Turkish chess prodigy and grandmaster
- 2005 — Désiré Doué, French footballer
- 2002 — Tyrell Sloan, Australian rugby league player
- 2001 — Jalen Suggs, American basketball player
- 2000 — Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter
- 1999 — Cameron Green, Australian cricketer
- 1999 — Dzhem Yamenov, Bulgarian politician
- 1998 — Sam Curran, English cricketer
- 1997 — Louis Hofmann, German actor
- 1994 — Harrison Bader, American baseball player
- 1993 — Otto Porter Jr., American basketball player
- 1992 — Dilraba Dilmurat, Chinese actress
Deaths
- 2025 — Jim Marshall, American football player (born 1937)
- 2025 — Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1936)
- 2025 — Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)
- 2024 — Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)
- 2024 — William Russell, English actor (born 1924)
- 2021 — F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (born 1933)
- 2016 — Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)
- 2015 — Avi Beker, Israeli political scientist and academic (born 1951)
- 2014 — Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (born 1942)
- 2014 — Gopinath Munde, Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1949)
- 2013 — Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)
- 2013 — Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances: Martyrs' Day (Uganda)
- Christian feast day: Clotilde
- Christian feast day: Blessed Francis Ingleby
- Christian feast day: Juan Grande Román
- Christian feast day: Kevin of Glendalough
- Christian feast day: Ovidius
- Christian feast day: Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox)
- Christian feast day: June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, and Tennessee, United States)
- Economist day (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Mabo Day (Australia)
- Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)
- World Bicycle Day
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