June 3

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June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining.

Events

1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey
1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac Quebec Canada.
1620 - Building of oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands
1658 - The Pope appoints [[Fran�ois de Laval]] vicar apostolic in New France.
1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
1800 - President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern -- the White House was not yet completed)
1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario into the United States to a heroes' welcome.
1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
1888 - The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
1889 - The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 - The ROTC is established by the United States Congress
1935 - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris
1944 - Charles de Gaulle becomes Prime Minister of France
1960 - In Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court rules that all accused persons must be given the right to an attorney
1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris killing 130
1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia killing 101
1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi day mission by an American crew
1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. The show premiered on September 8, 1966.
1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev TU-144 crashed near Goussainville, France killing 14 marking the first crash of a supersonic aircraft
1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters. The worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons.
1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation
1997 - Lionel Jospin becomes Prime Minister of France
1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails, causing 101 deaths.