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THIS DAY
On May 30, 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

Well done, Juliet.

 

May 30:

70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
1416 – The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 – Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Elba.
1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913, is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill 10 labor demonstrators.
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
1942 – World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
2012 – The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Births:

1010 – Emperor Renzong of Song
1220 – Saint Alexander Nevsky
1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary, and philosopher, and theorist
1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler
1878 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player
1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor
1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor
1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader
1914 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna
1918 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur and businessman, founder of Bob Evans Restaurants
1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transgender
1934 – Alexey Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
1943 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist
1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter
1952 – Kerry Fraser, Canadian ice hockey referee
1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
1964 – Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Billy Donovan, American basketball player and coach
1965 – Abderraouf Jdey, Tunisian terrorist
1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist
1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican-American baseball player
1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
1976 – Rasho Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player
1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player
1985 – Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths:

1159 – Władysław II the Exile of Poland
1252 – Ferdinand III of Castile
1431 – Saint Joan of Arc, French military figure
1574 – Charles IX of France
1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai retainer
1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright
1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter
1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England
1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer
1778 – Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and author
1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company
1912 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer
1947 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austro-Hungarian navy officer
1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer
1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1967 – Claude Rains, English actor
1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer
1994 – Marcel Bich, French businessman and industrialist, co-founder of BIC Corp.
2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster

 

ON THIS DAY

On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.

 

Yay!

 

I was at the museum there once years ago. It's really disgusting when you think of how the owners of the dam ignored all the warnings to fix it for years, because it all could have been avoided. (I also have a friend whose mother works there)

May 30:

1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
526 – A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1678 – Lady Godiva's procession through Coventry begins.
1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
1911 – The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1935 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
1941 – A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1981 – The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 – 1985 United States–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1989 – A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat

Births:

1443 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, English mother of Henry VII of England
1557 – Feodor I of Russia
1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet
1852 – Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish
1857 – Pope Pius XI
1892 – Erich Neumann, German Nazi politician
1892 – Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician
1898 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author
1923 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor and director
1943 – Joe Namath, American football player and actor
1948 – John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter
1957 – Jim Craig, American ice hockey player
1960 – Chris Elliott, American actor, comedian, and writer
1961 – Lea Thompson, American actress
1962 – Corey Hart, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1964 – Darryl McDaniels, American rapper and producer
1965 – Brooke Shields, American actress and model
1967 – Kenny Lofton, American baseball player
1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
1976 – Matt Harpring, American basketball player
1981 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player
1984 – Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1990 – Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Deaths:

455 – Petronius Maximus, Roman emperor
1162 – Géza II of Hungary
1246 – Isabella of Angoulême, queen consort of King John of England
1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun
1495 – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
1740 – Frederick William I of Prussia
1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, English actor and comedian, created the clown
1960 – Walther Funk, Nazi leader
1962 – Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official
1970 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player
1996 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and writer
2000 – Tito Puente, American musician and producer
2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder
2009 – Millvina Dean, English, the last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
2009 – George Tiller, American physician
2012 – Orlando Woolridge, American basketball player

 

ON THIS DAY

On June 1, 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life, died in Westport, Conn.

 

June 1:

193 – The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1204 – King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2013 – The One World Trade Center opens in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Birth:

719 – Yang Guifei, Chinese princess
1076 – Mstislav I of Kiev
1801 – Brigham Young, American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
1815 – Otto of Greece
1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician, missionary and scientist, developed fingerprinting
1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor
1907 – Frank Whittle, English engineer and inventor, developed the jet engine
1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and writer
1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American model, actress, singer, and producer
1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut
1934 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and director
1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist
1953 – David Berkowitz, American serial killer and arsonist
1955 – Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary
1956 – Lisa Hartman, American actress
1960 – Vladimir Krutov, Soviet ice hockey player
1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Greg Schiano, American football player and coach
1969 – Teri Polo, American actress
1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball player
1973 – Heidi Klum, German model, actress, fashion designer, and producer
1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actress
1977 – Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1977 – Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1979 – Santana Moss, American football player
1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
1985 – Nick Young, American basketball player
1985 – Sam Young, American basketball player
2000 – Willow Shields, American actress

Deaths:

195 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han
193 – Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor
1434 – Jogaila of Poland
1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun
1846 – Pope Gregory XVI
1864 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel, led the Taiping Rebellion
1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States
1879 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial French son of Napoleon III of France
1927 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer
1946 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Romania
1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher and theorist
1960 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Paula Hitler, Austrian-German sister of Adolf Hitler
1965 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach, founded the Green Bay Packers
1968 – Helen Keller, American author, activist, and lecturer
1999 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer and inventor, invented the hovercraft
2001 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist
2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player
2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer

 

Deaths
2013: Jean Stapleton, American Actress

 

ON THIS DAY

On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

 

Death. **** yeah!

 

June 2:

455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
1994 – An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011.
1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Births:

926 – Emperor Murakami of Japan
1535 – Pope Leo XI
1731 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French author
1835 – Pope Pius X
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English writer
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer
1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader, victim of the RMS Titanic sinking
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor
1931 – Larry Jackson, baseball player
1940 – Constantine II of Greece
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Lou Nanne, Canadian ice hockey player
1941 – Charlie Watts, English drummer, producer, and composer
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
1949 – Jack Pierce, American baseball player
1949 – Frank Rich, American critic and columnist
1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Gary Bettman, American businessman, commissioner of the NHL, total douchebag (YOU SUCK, BETTMAN!!!)
1955 – Dana Carvey, American actor
1958 – Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
1965 – Russ Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1972 – Wayne Brady, American comedian and actor
1972 – Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 – Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor and producer
1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1986 – Curtis Lofton, American football player

Deaths:

891 – Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid regent
1418 – Catherine of Lancaster, Spanish wife of Henry III of Castile
1567 – Shane O'Neill, Irish king of the O'Neill dynasty
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician
1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player
1948 – Karl Brandt, German SS officer
1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer
1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor
1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player
1996 – Ray Combs, American comedian, actor, and game show host
2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress
2008 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and musician
2012 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian, and game show host
2012 – LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player
2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress

 

Deaths:
2003: 'Classy' Freddie Blassie, American pro - wrestler, and wrestling manager. (Rest in Peace, you pencil necked geek!)

 

ON THIS DAY

On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.

and no, jp-30, nobody died doing this.

 

You need to try harder.

 

Oh, just saw your previous post. Well done, keep the dream alive

 

June 3:

350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
1862 – A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1932 – Lou Gehrig and his 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.
1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1968 – Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1998 – Eschede train disaster: an ICE high-speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

Births:

1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal
1540 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria
1636 – John Hale, American pastor during the Salem witch trials
1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician, President of the Confederate States of America
1840 – Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark
1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company
1865 – George V of the United Kingdom
1879 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, scriptwriter, and producer
1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer
1906 – Josephine Baker, American dancer, singer, and actress
1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress
1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress
1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor
1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet
1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author
1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban politician, 17th Prime Minister of Cuba
1936 – Larry McMurtry, American author
1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
1967 – Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author
1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
1971 – John Hodgman, American author, actor, and humorist
1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player

Deaths:

628 – Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
1411 – Leopold IV, Duke of Austria
1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer
1955 – Barbara Graham, American criminal and convicted murderer
1963 – Pope John XXIII
1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor, bandleader, producer, and director
1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist
1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran
2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
2009 – David Carradine, American actor
2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress
2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician, pathologist, author, and activist

 

2013: NBA Star Jason Kidd retires after a 19 year career.

 

Retired is kinda like dying but not really. Try more.

 

ON THIS DAY

On June 4, 1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds - possibly thousands - of people died.

2013- Deacon Jones, considered by many to be the best NFL Defensive Player of all time, passes away at age 74.