Today in History - June 3
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1083 Jun 3, Henry
IV of Germany stormed Rome capturing St. Peter's Basilica.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1098 Jun 3, Christian Crusaders of
the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.
(HN, 6/3/99)
1539 Jun 3, Hernando De Soto
claimed Florida for Spain. In 1922 Lippincott published "Narratives of
de Soto in Florida." The translated texts included "A Narrative of de
Soto's Expedition Based on the Diary of Rodrigo Rangel" by Gonzalo
Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes."
(HN, 6/3/98)(ON, 4/01, p.5)
1594 Jun 3, Michel Renichon,
priest, was executed.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1610 Jun 3, Jacob Neefs, Flemish
engraver, publisher, was baptized.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1621 Jun 3, The Dutch West
India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, now known as New
York.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1661 Jun 3, Gottfried Scheidt
(67), composer, died.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1726 Jun 3, James Hutton, Scottish
geologist, was born. He founded the science of geology and wrote "A
Theory of the Earth."
(HN, 6/3/99)
1732 Jun 3, Pieter Vuyst, Dutch
gov-gen. of Ceylon, was executed.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1770 Jun 3, Father Junipero Serra
founded Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo on the shores of
Monterey Bay as a chapel for the new Spanish Presidio of Monterey. A
year later he moved the mission to Carmel.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.C5)(www.sancarloscathedral.net/)
1771 Jun 3, Sydney Smith,
preacher, reformer, author, was born in Woodford, Essex.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1804 Jun 3, Richard Cobden,
English economist and politician, was born. He became known as 'the
Apostle of free trade.' He led the Anti-Corn League, which in 1839-1846
fought to remove price controls and import barriers for wheat.
(HN, 6/3/99)(Econ, 6/5/04, p.10)
1808 Jun 3, Jefferson Davis, the
first and only president of the Confederacy (1861-1865), was born in
Christian County, Ky. He was imprisoned and indicted for treason, but
the case was dropped.
(AP, 6/3/97)(HN, 6/3/99)
1809 Jun 3, John "Christmas"
Beckwith (58), composer, died.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1814 Jun 3, Nicolas Appert
(b.1749), French cook, died. He was the winner of a 12,000 franc prize
offered by Napoleon for developing a method to preserve food. His
original canning method took 14 years to develop and used glass jars
sealed with wax reinforced with wire.
(WSJ, 1/21/03, p.A1)(www.foodreference.com)
1861 Jun 3, In the first Civil War
land battle, Union forces defeated Confederates at Philippi, in Western
Virginia.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1861 Jun 3, Stephen A Douglas,
"Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), died.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1863 Jun 3, Gen. Lee, with 75,000
Confederates, launched a second invasion of the North. Lee led his
troops into Maryland and then Pennsylvania, to meet the Army of the
Potomac again, this time around a small town called Gettysburg.
(HNQ, 9/22/00)
1864 Jun 3, Some 7,000 Union
troops were killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor
in Virginia. General Lee won his last victory of the Civil War at the
Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia
(HN, 6/3/98)(MC, 6/3/02)
1865 Jun 3, George V,
Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain, was born.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1871 Jun 3, Jesse James and his
gang robbed Obocock Bank in Corydon, Iowa, of $15,000.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1875 Jun 3, Georges Bizet
(36), French composer (Carmen, Pearl Fishers), died.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1877 Jun 3, Raoul Dufy, French
Fauvist painter (Palm), was born.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1877 Jun 3, Frank Pocock, British
explorer, drowned in the Congo.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1886 Jun 3, 24 Christians were
burned to death in Namgongo, Uganda.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1888 Jun 3, The poem “Casey at the
Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was 1st published in the SF Daily
Examiner. The poem was based on a game played in Stockton, Ca.
(SFC, 4/28/05, p.A1)(www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE23.html)
1899 Jun 3, A French court
overturned the 1894 guilty verdict against Capt. Dreyfus.
(ON, 2/09, p.7)
1899 Jun 3, Johann Strauss (73),
Jr., composer ("Waltz King"), died.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1904 Jun 3, Charles R. Drew
(d.1950), American black surgeon, was born. He invented blood plasma
banks. He helped develop methods to preserve blood plasma and protested
the US Army's policy of segregating donated blood by race. While
working on his doctorate at Columbia University, Drew researched ways
to use and preserve blood plasma for use in transfusion. He quickly
became a leading authority on "blood banks" and oversaw programs in the
U.S. and Britain in the early years of World War II. He left this
enterprise when the armed forces insisted on storing the blood plasma
of blacks and whites separately. Taking jobs at Howard University and
Freedman's Hospital in Washington, DC, he worked as an educator until
his untimely death in a car accident in 1950.
(SFC,11/12/97, p.A3)(HN, 6/3/00)(HNQ, 2/7/01)
1906 Jun 3, Josephine Baker,
dancer, singer, Parisian nightclub owner, was born to an Indian and
African mother and a Creole father in St. Louis. She was a talented
singer and dancer who got her show business start with the Dixie
Steppers vaudeville troupe and was the first black, female American
entertainer to achieve international stardom. She left home at 13 to
tour on the southern vaudeville circuit, later appeared on Broadway and
was noted in New York as a comedienne. Frustrated by the racism she
encountered in her homeland, Baker moved to France in 1925 and joined
the Folies Bergere. Her sensuous performances with La Revue Negre
earned her rave reviews and admiring fans. She returned to America in
1935 after 10 years in France only to find that racial barriers still
prevented her from attaining the same status she enjoyed in Europe. She
appeared in New York's Ziegfeld Follies but, when she did not achieve
any success there she returned to France, became a citizen, and married
a Frenchman. During World War II, Baker became active in undercover
work for the French Resistance movement. She later adopted twelve
orphans from around the world, calling them her "Rainbow Tribe."
Josephine Baker died in France in 1975 and was buried in Paris with
full military honors.
(HNQ, 6/3/98)(HN, 6/3/98)(HNQ, 12/28/98)
1915 Jun 3, Leo Gorcey, actor
(Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar), was born in NYC.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1918 Jun 3, The US Supreme Court
ruled child labor laws unconstitutional.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1918 Jun 3, The Finnish Parliament
ratified its treaty with Germany.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1922 Jun 3, Alain Resnais, French
film director, was born.
(HN, 6/3/01)
1923 Jun 3, In Italy, dictator
Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1924 Jun 3, The US Forest Service
designated 750,000 acres of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico as
the Gila Wilderness, America’s first wilderness area. The Forest
Service extended itself in a conservation direction promoted by Aldo
Leopold, Arthur Carhart, and other agency staff.
(www.foresthistory.org/research/usfscoll/policy/Wilderness/1924_Gila.html)
1924 Jun 3, Franz Kafka (b.1883),
Czech writer, died. He was born in Prague and authored "The Castle" and
"The Trial," both published after his death. Kafka had requested that
his papers be burned after his death, but his friend, Max Brod, kept
them and carried them to Tel Aviv when he fled Prague in 1939. A
critical German edition of The Castle was published in 1982 and an
English translation of that edition came out in 1998. In 1927 Max Brod
edited Kafka’s unfinished manuscript called "The Man Who Disappeared"
and published it as "Amerika." In 2005 Roberto Calasso authored “K,” a
contemporary evaluation of Kafka’s work.
(WSJ, 10/10/96, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/5/98, BR p.11)(SSFC,
12/8/02, p.M4)(SSFC, 2/20/05, p.B1)(SFC, 8/18/08, p.A12)
1926 Jun 3, Allen Ginsberg
(d.1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey.
(SFC, 4/16/97, p.E3)
1926 Jun 3, Colleen Dewhurst,
actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey), was born in Montreal, Canada.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1928 Jun 3, Commander Amelia
Earhart departed with pilot Bill Stultz from Boston Harbor to Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and then to Trepassey, Newfoundland. From there on June 17
they embarked on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to the
British Isles.
(AP, 6/17/97)(HNQ, 3/8/02)(ON, 12/07, p.8)
1928 Jun 3, Manchurian warlord
Chian Tso-Lin died as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese,
who were planning to invade and claim Manchuria.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1929 Jun 3, The 1st trade show at
Atlantic City Convention Center featured electric light.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1929 Jun 3, Chile, Peru &
Bolivia signed an accord about the Tacna-Arica area. Chile and Peru
accepted a proposal by Pres. Herbert Hoover over the outcome of the
1879-1893 War of the Pacific. Chile would retain Arica and return Tacna
to Peru and grant access to the Arica port as a compromise. The accord
was not implemented until 1999.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A22)(MC, 6/3/02)
1932 Jun 3, Von Hindenburg
disbanded the German Parliament.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1933 Jun 3, Pope Pius XI
encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain."
(MC, 6/3/02)
1934 Jun 3, Dr. Frederick Banting,
co-discoverer of insulin, was knighted.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1935 Jun 3, The French liner
Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after
crossing the Atlantic in just four days, 11 hours and 42 minutes.
(AP, 6/3/05)
1936 Jun 3, Larry McMurtry,
novelist (The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment), was born.
(HN, 6/3/01)
1936 Jun 3, Britain’s Air Ministry
placed a £1.25 million order for 310 Spitfire fighters.
(ON, 3/07, p.2)
1937 Jun 3, The Duke of Windsor,
who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson
in Monts, France. In 2003 secret police records revealed that Simpson
was also having an affair with Guy Marcus Trundle, a used car salesman.
(AP, 6/3/97)(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A10)
1938 Jun 3, The German Reich voted
to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."
(HN, 6/3/98)
1940 Jun 3, In a special Maine
election Margaret Chase Smith was elected to serve out the unexpired
term of her late husband, Clyde Smith. At the next regular election,
held 3 months later, Smith was voted to a full term in the House. She
was elected to the Senate in 1948.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000590)
1940 Jun 3, Last British and
French troops left Dunkirk.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1940 Jun 3, The German Luftwaffe
hit Paris with 1,100 bombs.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1941 Jun 3, German occupiers
stamped "J" on Jewish passports.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1942 Jun 3, Japanese carrier-based
planes strafed Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of
the attack on Midway island.
(HN, 6/3/99)
1943 Jun 3, United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration formed.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1944 Jun 3, Nazis pulled out of
Rome.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1946 Jun 3, A Supreme Court
decision struck down Virginia's segregation statute on interstate
buses. The case stemmed from the 1944 incident where Irene Morgan was
jailed for refusing to give up her bus seat.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.D2)
1946 Jun 3, Intl. Military
Tribunal opened in Tokyo against 28 accused Japanese war criminals.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1946 Jun 3, US Supreme court ruled
that race separation on buses is unconstitutional.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1947 Jun 3, In Britain an
announcement was made in the House of Commons that India was to be
partitioned and that independence would follow. In 2007 Yasmin Khan
authored “The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan.”
(Econ, 7/21/07, p.81)
1948 Jun 3, Korczak Ziolkowski
(1908-1982), a self-taught sculptor, began blasting a figure of Crazy
Horse into rock in the Black Hills of South Dakota under an invitation
by the Lakota Sioux. Ziolkowski had worked under Gutzon Borglum at the
Mount Rushmore site. The face of Crazy Horse, at the site known as
Thunder Mountain, was completed and dedicated in 1998.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, Par p.11)(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.C4)
1948 Jun 3, The 200-inch
reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California
was dedicated. The nearly 5.1 meter Hale telescope was operated by
Caltech.
(AP, 6/3/97)(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.C14)
1948 Jun 3, Newfoundland and
Labrador voted by a slim margin to relinquish status as a British
colony and to become the 10th province of Canada.
(Econ, 10/13/07,
p.42)(www.heritage.nf.ca/law/referendums.html)
1949 Jun 3, Wesley Anthony Brown
became the 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1949 Jun 30, In Greece Prime
Minister Sophoulis died and was succeeded by Alexander Diomedes.
(EWH, 1968, p.1192)
1950 Jun 3, French expedition
reached the top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna)
1952 Jun 3, A rebellion by North
Korean prisoners in the Koje POW camp in South Korea was put down by
American troops.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1961 Jun 3, JFK and Khrushchev met
in Vienna.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1962 Jun 3, Lee Harvey Oswald
arrived by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1967 Jun 3, Arthur Ransome
(b.1884), English author of children’s adventure stories, died. He is
best known for writing the “Swallows and Amazons” series of children's
books. It is believed that he served as a double agent and worked in
the Russian service after the collapse of the Czarist regime. In 1918
he wrote a propaganda pamphlet titled: “On Behalf of Russia: An Open
Letter to America.” In 2009 Roland Chambers authored “The Last
Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome.”
(Econ, 8/29/09,
p.73)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome)
1963 June 3, Pope John XXIII died
at the age of 81, ending a papacy marked by innovative reforms in the
Roman Catholic Church. He was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1965 Jun 3, Astronaut Edward White
became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of
Gemini 4.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1968 Jun 3, There was a Poor
Peoples' March on Washington.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1968 Jun 3, Valerie Solanas,
founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM), and author of the
"SCUM Manifesto," shot Andy Warhol with a .32 automatic in his New York
film studio, known as The Factory. Warhol survived but Solanas was
judged insane and served three years in a psychiatric prison. She died
in 1989 at 52 in a welfare hotel in San Francisco of bronchial
pneumonia and emphysema. A film titled "I Shot Andy Warhol" opened in
1996 and featured Lili Taylor as Solanas.
(SFC, 5/15/96, p.E-1)(AP, 6/3/98)
1969 Jun 3, Last episode of Star
Trek aired on NBC (Turnabout Intruder).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek)
1970 Jun 3, Hjalmar Horace Greeley
Schacht (b.1877), President of Germany’s Reichsbank (1933-1939),
minister of Economics (1934-1936), died. Schacht was tried for crimes
against peace in Nuremberg in 1946. His defense was that he was only a
banker and economist.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Schacht)
1972 Jun
3, Sally J. Priesand (25) was ordained the 1st female US rabbi by
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Upon ordination Rabbi Pries accepted a position at Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue in NYC where she served for seven years, first as Assistant
Rabbi and then as Associate Rabbi. From 1979-1981, she was Rabbi of
Temple Beth El in Elizabeth, New Jersey and also served as Chaplain at
Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. Since 1981, she has served as Rabbi of
Monmouth Reform Temple in New Jersey.
(www.monmouth.com/~mrt/rabbi/bio.html)
1973 Jun 3, A Soviet supersonic
Tupelov 144, nicknamed Concordski, exploded in flight at the Paris Air
Show and crashed into a nearby village, killing the six-man crew and
seven people on the ground. The plane beat the French and English
through the sound barrier.
(SFEC, 10/10/99, p.T4)(AP,
7/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144)
1974 Jun 3, The last Air America
aircraft crossed the border from Laos into Thailand. American forces
left Laos and abandoned some 36,000 Laotians hired to battle North
Vietnamese troops. The Hmong and Iu Mien were 2 hill tribes hired by
the Americans to break codes and rescue downed pilots. Many of the
soldiers fled to Thailand where they lived in refugee camps. Some
35,000 Iu Mien later moved to the US.
(SFC,12/27/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 1/24/99,
p.A8)(http://tinyurl.com/3mzgcy)
1974 Jun 3, Charles Colson, an
aide to President Richard Nixon, pleaded guilty to obstruction of
justice.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1974 Jun 3, Yitzhak Rabin
(1922-1995) formed a new Israeli government.
(www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Government/Memorial/PrimeMinisters/Rabin.htm)
1975 Jun 3, The musical "Chicago"
opened on Broadway with a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, and music by
John Kander.
(WSJ, 11/15/96,
p.A14)(http://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/chicago.htm)
1975 Jun 3, Ozzie Nelson (b.1906),
actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0625651/bio)
1976 Jun 3, Britain presented to
the US the oldest known copy of the Magna Carta.
(www.magnacharta.org/enews82000.htm)
1977 Jun 3, Roberto Rossellini
(b.1906), Italian director died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini)
1979 Jun 3, In the 33rd Tony
Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd won.
(http://tinyurl.com/2lytw4)
1979 Jun 3, Ixtoc 1, an
exploratory oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, blew and spilled an
estimated 140 gallons of crude oil.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.A14)
1981 Jun 3, Pope John Paul II left
a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after the
attempt on his life.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1982 Jun 3, Israel's ambassador to
Britain, Shlomo Argov (1929-2003), was shot and critically wounded
outside a London hotel. Israel's invasion of Lebanon followed the
assassination attempt. The attack was blamed on Abu Nidal’s Palestinian
Fatah group.
(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A18)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)(AP,
6/3/07)
1983 Jun 3, Gordon Kahl (b.1920),
a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two US marshals in
North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials
near Smithville, Ark. Kahl was a former member of the anti-tax Posse
Comitatus movement founded in 1969 by Henry L Beach.
(AP,
6/3/97)(http://law.jrank.org/pages/9290/Posse-Comitatus.html)
1984 Jun 3, In San Francisco the
cable cars on California Street returned to service after nearly 20
months and $58.2 million in re-design and construction costs.
(SSFC, 5/31/09, DB p.50)
1985 Jun 3, Jerry A. Whitworth was
arrested by the FBI, accused of being part of a spy ring headed by John
A. Walker Jr. Whitworth was later sentenced to 365 years in prison.
(AP, 6/3/05)
1986 Jun 3, In Beirut, Lebanon,
Shiite Moslem militiamen clashed in separate battles with Palestinians
and a pro-Palestinian Sunni Moslem faction. 53 people were killed.
(http://tinyurl.com/ygh5ls)
1987 Jun 3, President Reagan
arrived in Italy to prepare for a summit of major industrialized
democracies, the 13th such gathering of world leaders.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1987 Jun 3, Patricia Lopez (9)
disappeared after leaving school in Santa Ana, Ca. Her body was found 2
days later bludgeoned to death in a feeder tunnel of the Santa Ana
riverbed. In 2007 DNA evidence identified her brother, Rosendo Lopez
(42), as the murderer.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.D12)
1987 Jun 3, Andres Segovia
(b.1893), Spanish classical guitarist, died in Madrid.
(WSJ, 8/7/00,
p.A6)(www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Andr%E9s_Segovia)
1988 Jun 3, President Reagan
returned home from the superpower summit in Moscow after a stopover in
London.
(AP, 6/3/98)
1988 Jun 3, Amber Swartz-Garcia
(7) was abducted from her home in Pinole, Ca. In 2009 police identified
cab driver Curtis Dean Anderson (d.2007), the 1999 killer of Xiana
Fairchild(7), as the person who abducted Amber Swartz-Garcia, drove her
to Arizona and killed her. Amber’s body was never found.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A18)(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.B2)(SFC,
7/7/09, p.A1,7)
1989 Jun 3, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini (89), Iran's spiritual and supreme leader, died.
(AP, 6/3/97)(SFC, 8/15/97, p.A15)
1989 Jun 3, Japan’s Foreign
Minister Sousuke Uno was named prime minister. He replaced Noboru
Takeshita, who resigned to save his ruling Liberal Democratic Party
from further embarrassment over an influence peddling scandal.
(www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,957926,00.html)
1989 Jun 3, An explosion of a
liquefied gas pipeline engulfed two Trans-Siberian Railroad trains
parked outside the Central Asian city of Ufa in the Soviet Union. 575
people were killed.
(AP, 4/23/04)
1989 Jun 3-1989 Jun 4, Chinese
troops entered Beijing. They fired into the crowd at Tiananmen Square
and killed at least hundreds of demonstrators.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)
1990 Jun 3, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded their Washington summit
with a joint news conference at the White House. Gorbachev and his
delegation then flew to Minnesota for a whirlwind tour of
Minneapolis-St. Paul.
(AP, 6/3/00)
1990 Jun 3, "City of Angels" won
Best Musical and "The Grapes of Wrath" won Best Play at the 44th Tony
Awards.
(AP, 6/3/00)
1990 Jun 3, Robert Noyce (b.1927),
co-inventor of the integrated circuit, co-founder and 1st CEO of Intel
Corp. (1968), died at age 62. In 2005 Leslie Berlin authored “The Man
Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley.
(www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/legacies/noyce.html)(SSFC,
7/10/05, p.E1)
1991 Jun 3, Pope John Paul the
Second, visiting the Polish city of Kielce, indirectly criticized
abortion, appealing to his listeners to "prevent further destruction of
the Polish family."
(AP, 6/3/01)
1991 Jun 3, Mount Unzendake in
southern Japan erupted and left 43 people dead and nearly 2,300
homeless.
(SFC, 3/31/00, p.A17)(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A17)(AP,
6/3/01)
1992 Jun 3, Undeclared
presidential candidate Ross Perot announced he'd hired Hamilton Jordan
and Edward Rollins to help steer his campaign. Democrat Bill Clinton
appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show."
(AP, 6/3/97)
1992 Jun 3, Actor Robert Morley
died in Reading, England, at age 84.
(AP, 6/3/02)
1992 Jun 3, William Gaines (70),
MAD magazine publisher died in New York.
(AP, 6/3/02)
1993 Jun 3, President Clinton
abandoned his nomination of Lani Guinier to head the Justice
Department's civil rights division, hearing critics who accused her of
far-out views on minority rights.
(AP, 6/3/98)
1994 Jun 3, President Clinton,
continuing his tour of Italy, visited the graves of American soldiers
killed in the Anzio landing during World War II.
(AP, 6/3/99)
1994 Jun 3, The US began
consultations with South Korea, Japan and Russia on how to retaliate
for North Korea's removal of vital evidence about its nuclear weapons
capability.
(AP, 6/3/99)
1995 Jun 3, Bosnian Serb officials
made contradictory statements about the whereabouts of an American
pilot, a day after his Air Force jet was shot down. Bosnian Serb
military sources claimed that the pilot, later identified as Captain
Scott F. O'Grady, was in Bosnian Serb hands—a claim that proved false.
(AP, 6/3/00)
1995 Jun 3, In Bosnia Mladic
forces seized a Dutch observation post.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 3, The FBI pulled the
plug on electricity at the Freemen ranch in Montana in an attempt to
persuade the occupants to negotiate an end to the 71-day-old standoff.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1996 Jun 3, During joint war games
in the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer mistakenly shot down an American
attack plane; two Navy aviators ejected safely.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1996 Jun 3, The Rising Star
Baptist Church in Greensboro, Ala., burned down. Arson was suspected
and investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 Jun 3, In the Ukraine a
hepatitis epidemic has hospitalized nearly 3,000 residents of
Sevastopol so far this year. Also all nuclear weapons have been
transferred to Russia for dismantling. The US paid $267 mil for the
removal.
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. B6D) (WSJ, 8/8/95, p. A1)
1996 Jun 3, In Chad Pres. Idriss
Deby led 15 candidates in the first multiparty elections. [dates do not
jive]
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. A1)
1996 Jun 3, A recent announcement
was made that Hughes Electronics will take over the Indianapolis Naval
Air Warfare Center. The NAWC made the bombsights that helped win WW II.
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. A14)
1996 Jun 3, The government of
Bahrain said that 29 militants confessed last month to be trained by
Iran to topple the ruling Al Khalifa family and install a Shiite Muslim
government.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A11)
1996 Jun 3, Turkish soldiers shot
and killed a Greek Cypriot soldier in the no-man's zone of Cyprus
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A11)
1997 Jun 3, The United States
banned most slaughtered-animal parts from livestock feed because of
concerns over "mad cow disease."
(AP, 6/3/98)
1997 Jun 3, Harvey Johnson became
the first black mayor of Jackson, Miss., the state capital. He took his
oath of office on Jul 7.
(SFC, 6/4/97, p.A3)(SFC, 7/8/97, p.A4)
1997 Jun 3, The "Pillar of Shame,"
a sculpture symbolizing oppression by Jans Galschiot of Denmark was
erected in Victoria Park, Honk Kong.
(SFC, 6/4/97, p.A11)
1997 Jun 3, Reinforcements from a
peace-keeping force in Liberia were sent in to help Nigerian troops
against the insurrectionist troops of Sierra Leone. After a bloody
coup, 1,200 foreigners fled Sierra Leone aboard an American warship.
(SFC, 6/4/97, p.A10)(AP, 6/3/98)
1998 Jun 3, An 87-foot memorial to
Crazy Horse, sculpted into rock near Custer in the South Dakota Black
Hills by Korczak Ziolkowski (d.1982), was dedicated after 50 years of
work.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A5)(SSFC, 7/28/02, Par p.11)
1998 Jun 3, Pres. Clinton
announced the renewal of favored nation trade status with China.
President Clinton urged Congress to renew normal trade benefits for
China, saying good relations with Beijing were crucial amid fears of a
nuclear arms race in South Asia.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/3/99)
1998 Jun 3, In New York City
hundreds of sidewalk food vendors held a 1-day strike and paraded
through lower Manhattan.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 3, The FDA approved
Rebetron, a combination of two anti-viral drugs (interferon and
ribavirin), to treat Chronic Hepatitis C.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 3, Eritrean and Ethiopian
soldiers clashed in heavy fighting along their disputed border.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 3, In Germany the
high-speed ICE 884 train derailed near Eschede and 94 [101] people were
killed. A damaged wheel was later cited as the cause.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/8/98, p.A1)(AP, 6/3/99)
1998 Jun 3, Mexico announced that
it would prosecute US customs officials for breaking numerous Mexican
laws in the undercover Casablanca operation that was announced May 18.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 3, In Mexico Chiapas Gov.
Roberto Albores ordered a thousand police officers and soldiers into
the town of Nicolas Ruiz where 141 people were arrested for supporting
Zapatista rebels.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 3, The Kremlin announced
a crackdown on skinheads.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.T8)
1998 Jun 3, Special Serbian forces
reported 40 people killed in a 5-day operation in Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 3, From Sierra Leone it
was reported that 243,000 refugees had fled to camps in Liberia and
Guinea in terror of the ousted junta's loyalists.
(WSJ, 6/3/98, p.A1)
1999 Jun 3, Stock pick for today
is Arch Communications (APGR), a pager company. The close was around
$2.61 per share.
http://www.bigcharts.com/
1999 Jun 3, It was reported that
Catholics and Lutherans had agreed to sign an accord over the
theological issue of "justification." They agreed that divine
forgiveness and salvation come "solely by God's grace" and that good
works flow from that.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C4)
1999 Jun 3, Pres. Clinton called
for an extension of China's favorable trading status on the 10th
anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 3, The US and Canada
signed a 10-year accord to limit salmon fishing in the northwest based
on the abundance of particular species.
(WSJ, 6/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 3, Zane Floyd (23), a
former Marine, killed 4 employees at an Albertsons supermarket in Las
Vegas before being arrested by police.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A4)
1999 Jun 3, The 15-member EU
announced plans to establish itself as a military power with a
60,000-troop force. A day later the EU named Javier Solana as the 1st
foreign policy and security czar of the union.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A14)(SFC, 6/5/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 3, Pres. Milosevic agreed
to end the Kosovo conflict on the 72nd day of bombing. The key elements
included: an end to fighting in Kosovo; a quick and verifiable
withdrawal of Yugoslav and Serb forces; deployment a security force
"with essential NATO participation;" disarmament of the KLA; and the
safe return of ethnic Albanian refugees. Separately it was reported
that over 5,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces had been killed
by NATO air strikes.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A1,11)
1999 Jun 3, From Iraq it was
reported that a drought had killed about 70% of the nation's crops.
(WSJ, 6/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 3, Pakistan freed Indian
fighter pilot, Flight Lt. Nachiketa, as a good will gesture.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.D2)
1999 Jun 3, In Peru rebels of the
Maoist Shining Path killed 9 people in 2 incidents in the highlands.
(SFC, 6/5/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 3, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin commuted all the remaining death sentences (716). From
1995-1996 an average of 132 executions were performed with a shot to
the back of the head.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.D2)
1999 Jun 3, From Sierra Leone a
new wave of mutilations was reported by Doctors Without Borders.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C3)
2000 Jun 3, Pres. Clinton met with
Russia's Pres. Putin in Moscow and began discussions on trade, missile
defense and arms control.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/3/01)
2000 Jun 3, William Simon, head of
the US Treasury Dept. from 1974-1977, died at age 72. His published
work included "A Time for Truth" and "A Time for Action." Simon left
Wall Street as a bond trader to serve under Nixon as Deputy Sec. of the
Treasury in 1973. From 1977-1980 he served as treasurer of the US
Olympic Committee.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C15)(WSJ, 6/7/00, p.A26)
2001 Jun 3, The 2001 Tony winners
included the play "Proof" and a lifetime achievement award to musical
director Paul Gemignani. Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won
a record 12 Tony Awards.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.E3)(AP, 6/3/02)
2001 Jun 3, It was reported that
the newest teen dance was called "freaking" and involved the partners,
male behind female, thrusting to a hip-hop beat as in "Get Ur Freak On."
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A23)
2001 Jun 3, Anthony Quinn
(b.1915), film actor, died in Boston at age 86. His films included
"Zorba the Greek" (1964) and "Viva Zapata" (1952).
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 Jun 3, In California pilot
Daniel Katz (24) disappeared while flying over San Bernardino National
Forest. This spurred one of the most extensive and high-tech searches
in the area's history. In 2008 the wreckage of his rented plane was
found on a steep mountainside north of Rancho Cucamonga near Lytle
Creek.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2001 Jun 3, In Bangladesh 10
people were killed in a church bombing in Baniarchar. Police later
detained 7 suspects.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 3, It was reported the
Burundi was poised for war due to conflicts between the Hutu majority
and Tutsi minority.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 3, In Indonesia over 100
police generals rejected Pres. Wahid's decision to fire police chief
Suroyo Bimantoro.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 3, In Peru Alejandro
Toledo won the presidency over ex-president Alan Garcia.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/3/02)
2001 Jun 3, It was reported that
Singapore may consider reviewing the 1992 ban on chewing gum to allow
nicotine gum for smokers.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)
2002 Jun 3, Pres. Bush, in Little
Rock, Ark., to promote his welfare initiative, said intelligence
agencies and the FBI had to do a better job tracking and catching
terrorists, emphasizing pursuit of "this shadowy enemy."
(AP, 6/3/03)
2002 Jun 3, US CIA director George
Tenet met with Israeli leaders as Israel stepped up seizures of Arab
land for use as security buffer zones.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A7)
2002 Jun 3, It was reported that
the US planned to resume manufacturing plutonium triggers for nuclear
warheads at a new $4.4 billion plant in 2020.
(WSJ, 6/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 3, It was reported that
scientists had discovered a new amino acid, dubbed pyrrolysine, in
Archaea microbes. This brought the known total to 22.
(SFC, 6/3/02, p.A4)
2002 Jun 3, NASA launched the $159
million Contour space probe to study the composition of comets.
Scientists lost contact on Aug 15.
(SFC, 8/16/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 3, Lew Wasserman (89),
movie mogul, died in Beverly Hills, Calif. In 2003 Connie Bruck
authored his biography: "When Hollywood Had a King."
(AP, 6/3/03)(WSJ, 6/6/03, p.W8)
2002 Jun 3, A rock concert at
Buckingham Palace celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's 50 years on the
throne.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2002 Jun 3, In Colombia 9 people
were killed in Chigorodo. Police suspected leftist rebels. At least 49
people were killed in weekend fighting outside a former rebel-held zone
in the south.
(WSJ, 6/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 3, India and Pakistan
exchanged fire in Kashmir and at least 8 civilians were killed and 23
injured.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 3, A 16-country summit of
Central Asian leaders opened in Almaty, Kazakstan.
(SFC, 6/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 3, Pakistan blocked
financial assistance to 115 Islamic schools for their alleged
involvement in militancy and violence.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 3, In Thailand 3 gunmen
attacked a school bus and killed 2 teenage students in the Ratchaburi
province near Burma. 15 others were injured.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A12)
2003 Jun 3, Sammy Sosa was ejected
in the first inning of Chicago's 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
after umpires found cork in his shattered bat.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2003 Jun 3, John Hickenlooper
(b.1952) was elected mayor of Denver.
(Econ, 11/3/07,
p.39)(www.boomerstv.com/episodes_profile.php?lid=346)
2003 Jun 3, Eric Robert Rudolph
pleaded innocent in a deadly 1998 abortion clinic bombing in
Birmingham, Ala.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2003 Jun 3, Jurors in Detroit
convicted Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi and Karim Koubriti of supporting
planned terrorist strikes. Their case began 6 days after the Sep 11,
2001 attacks.
(SFC, 6/4/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 3, In Egypt Arab leaders
met with President Bush as he plunged into the labyrinth of Mideast
peace talks. They pledged to fight terror and violence and called on
Israel to "rebuild trust and restore normal Palestinian life."
(AP, 6/3/03)
2003 Jun 3, The G-8 in Evian,
France, issued closing statements. These included: confidence in the
global economic future; they put North Korea and Iran on notice that
member countries will not stand by and let them acquire nuclear
weapons; they committed to further improve cooperation with African
nations to lift the world's poorest continent out of civil war, disease
and poverty; and adopted a plan to help halve the number of people
without access to clean water and sanitation by 2015.
(AP, 6/3/03)
2003 Jun 3, Miss Dominican
Republic, 18-year-old Amelia Vega, was crowned in Panama City, Panama,
as Miss Universe 2003.
(AP, 6/4/03)
2003 Jun 3, Israel released about
100 prisoners, a goodwill gesture ahead of a Mideast peace summit with
U.S. President George W. Bush.
(AP, 6/3/03)
2003 Jun 3, Police in Nairobi,
Kenya, said a landlord's thugs had hacked 9 people to death in a
campaign to drive out shanty tenants and raise rents.
(WSJ, 6/4/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 3, In Peru thousands of
trade unionists and striking teachers marched through downtown Lima in
defiance of a state of emergency that put the armed forces in charge of
maintaining order.
(AP, 6/3/03)
2003 Jun 3, In Spain a head-on
train collision near Chinchilla in Albacete province left at least 11
people dead and another 16 missing.
(AP, 6/4/03)
2003 Jun 3, In Togo security
forces arrested opposition leaders and beat their followers, moving out
in force to quell protests of an election the military ruler claimed to
be winning.
(AP, 6/3/03)
2003 Jun 3, In Zimbabwe a general
strike shut down much of the already crippled economy, and security
forces prevented efforts to organize massive street protests against
Pres. Mugabe.
(AP, 6/3/03)
2004 Jun 3, Julio Franco became,
at age 45, the oldest player in major league history to hit a grand
slam, connecting in Atlanta's 8-to-4 victory over Philadelphia.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2004 Jun 3, Pres. Bush said CIA
Director George Tenet, has resigned for personal reasons. Tenet
announced his resignation amid a controversy over intelligence lapses
about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2004 Jun 3, The United States
signed an agreement to give Egypt $300 million to compensate it for
"regional unrest" stemming from last year's war in Iraq.
(AP, 6/4/04)
2004 Jun 3, FBI Director Robert
Mueller proposed the creation of an intelligence service within the FBI
with clear authority over all FBI activities.
(SFC, 6/4/04, A5)
2004 Jun 3, Former Pres. Clinton
opened a book tour for his 957-page memoir “My Life” to be published on
June 22.
(SFC, 6/4/04, A2)
2004 Jun 3, In Congo U.N. troops
opened fire on rioters, killing two, as a mob broke into their base and
tens of thousands of protesters overran the capital city of Kinshasa.
Demonstrations swept the country over fighting in its volatile east.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2004 Jun 3, Germany’s Goethe
Center opened a reading room in Pyongyang, North Korea.
(www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1207346,00.html)
2004 Jun 3, Several mortar shells
were fired at the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, causing some Iraqi deaths.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2004 Jun 3, In Beirut, Lebanon,
OPEC leaders agreed to raise their output ceiling by 2.5 million
barrels a day.
(WSJ, 6/4/04, p.A2)
2004 Jun 3, In Pakistan police and
Shiite Muslim protesters clashed the northern city of Gilgit, killing
one man. Investigators named an al-Qaida-linked militant group as their
chief suspect in the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque in Karachi that
triggered mass rioting.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2004 Jun 3, Nam Cam (Truong Van
Cam, 57), an alleged Vietnamese crime "godfather," and four of his
gangster colleagues were executed by firing squad after being convicted
in a major crackdown on crime that is said to have reached into the
ruling Communist Party.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2005 Jun 3, The US accused 14
nations of failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in
prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers. The countries
included Bolivia, Cambodia, Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Kuwait, Myanmar,
North Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Togo the United Arab Emirates,
and Venezuela.
(AP, 6/4/05)
2005 Jun 3, US military officials
said no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects had
flushed a detainee’s Quran down the toilet, but disclosed there were
instances in which Qurans were abused by guards, intentionally or
accidentally.
(AP, 6/3/06)
2005 Jun 3, In eastern Afghanistan
a bomb exploded next to a US military convoy, killing two American
soldiers and wounding a third.
(AP, 6/4/05)
2005 Jun 3, Albanian novelist
Ismail Kadare (69) won the first international version of Britain's
prestigious Man Booker literary prize. Kadare became famous in his
homeland with the 1963 publication of his first novel, "The General of
the Dead Army." His other works include "The Concert," and "The Palace
of Dreams."
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, Bolivia's Pres. Carlos
Mesa called a constitutional assembly and a referendum over greater
regional autonomies, meeting the key demands behind street protests
that have virtually paralyzed La Paz for more than two weeks.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, In Brazil new logging
permits were suspended in Mato Grosso state where the rain forest is
being cleared at an ever increasing rate.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, Gordon Brown,
Britain's treasury chief, proposed canceling all debt to Africa's
poorest countries, eliminating all trade barriers and selling gold
reserves as part of a "modern Marshall plan" for the giant continent.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, Iraqi insurgent
commanders "apparently came face to face" with four American officials
during meetings on June 3 and June 13 at a summer villa near Balad,
about 25 miles north of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/26/05)
2005 Jun 3, Gunmen killed a city
council official in Kirkuk. Gunmen also killed Razzouq Mohammed
Ibrahim, an Iraqi contractor in charge of renovating a mosque in
western Samarra. Two Iraqi civilians, including a child, were killed
when their car swerved into a US Bradley fighting vehicle near Khalis.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, Oscar Espinosa
Villarreal, former Mexico City mayor (1994-1998) and tourism secretary,
was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for embezzling
government funds and ordered to pay more than $26 million in
reparations.
(AP, 6/4/05)
2005 Jun 3, A Peruvian judge
ordered the arrest of 29 military officials for their alleged
involvement in the decades-old massacre of dozens of campesinos in an
Andean village.
(AP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, Thai Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in New Delhi, India, for talks on a free
trade agreement and civil aviation liberalization.
(AFP, 6/3/05)
2005 Jun 3, UN Pres. Jean Ping
presented 191 member governments the first draft of a plan for
overhauling the United Nations, complete with demands to pay more
attention to poverty and human rights. The document avoided the
contentious issues of Security Council expansion, defining terrorism
and guidelines for using force.
(AP, 6/4/05)
2006 Jun 3, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld, attending a security conference in Singapore,
branded Iran the world's leading terrorist nation yet hoped Tehran
seriously would consider incentives from the West in exchange for
suspending suspect nuclear activities.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2006 Jun 3, The 2006 World
Philatelic Exposition ended in Washington, DC. It is held in the US
every 10 years.
(SFC, 5/30/06, p.A2)
2006 Jun 3, Doctors reported that
a new experimental drug, lapatinib, from British-based GlaxoSmithKline
PLC, delayed the growth of advanced breast cancer in women who had
stopped responding to the drug Herceptin and were out of treatment
options. The company planned to sell the drug under the name Tykerb.
(AP, 6/3/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.A5)
2006 Jun 3, John Finley Scott
(b.1934), a retired UC Davis sociology professor, went missing from his
home outside Davis, Ca. Much spattered blood was found in his bedroom
and foyer. Scott was also known for inventing the mountain bike. In
January 2007 Yolo County authorities arraigned his handyman, Charles
Cunningham (38). Cunningham was charged with murdering a witness and
five other felonies. In December Cunningham was sentenced to 31 years
in prison.
(www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/scott_john.html)(SFC, 12/5/07, p.B2)
2006 Jun 3, Afghanistan's
government announced plans to replace dozens of police commanders,
including the police chief in Kabul. In southern Afghanistan suspected
Taliban rebels attacked a police station in Miana Shien, but police
repulsed them after a bloody battle that lasted several hours.
Witnesses said 12 rebels were killed and at least as many wounded. 4
policemen and 18 Taliban were killed in a battle that erupted after
rebels attacked a police post in Kandahar province.
(AP, 6/3-4/06)
2006 Jun 3, Bolivia’s leftist
President Evo Morales launched a sweeping land reform plan by handing
over roughly 9,600 square miles of state-owned land to poor Indians.
The ceremony came after talks broke down between Morales and
agribusiness leaders on land reforms that involve handing out 77,000
square miles of government land, an area twice the size of Portugal,
over the next five years.
(AP, 6/3/06)
2006 Jun 3, British PM Tony Blair
had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI, at which the two men
focused on the importance of inter-faith dialogue, in particular with
"moderate Islam", in achieving peace.
(AP, 6/3/06)
2006 Jun 3, In northeast China a
suicide bomber attacked his former wife's wedding, killing at least
eight other people and injuring five.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 3, In China a military
transport plane carrying 40 crashed in eastern Anhui province. All 40
people aboard were killed. 2 Beijing-backed newspapers later reported
that the plane was a surveillance aircraft carrying nearly 3 dozen
electronics experts.
(AP, 6/4/06)(AP, 6/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Jun 3, Gunmen attacked a car
belonging to the Russian Embassy in Baghdad, killing one diplomat and
kidnapping four employees. Gunmen ambushed a police checkpoint in
Baqouba, killing seven policemen and wounding five pedestrians. A
suicide attacker blew up his car bomb at the main market in the
oil-rich southern city of Basra, killing at least 27 people and
injuring 67.
(AP, 6/3/06)(SSFC, 6/4/06, p.A4)
2006 Jun 3, Montenegro's
parliament declared independence from Serbia, forming Europe's newest
country and dissolving the last vestiges of the former Yugoslavia.
(AP, 6/3/06)
2006 Jun 3, The body of Zoran
Vukojevic, a key witness in the trial of the alleged assassins of
Serbia's first democratic prime minister since World War II, was found
outside Belgrade. Vukojevic, a member of so-called Zemun Clan criminal
group accused of plotting PM Zoran Djindjic's 2003 killing, had
testified in 2004 against his fellow gang members. Police also
discovered the body of another Zemun Clan member, Zoran Povic, in
central Belgrade.
(AP, 6/4/06)
2006 Jun 3, In Somalia 5 people
were killed in fighting between Islamic militiamen and their secular
rivals on the outskirts of Mogadishu.
(AP, 6/3/06)
2006 Jun 3, Thousands of Tibetan
exiles cast their votes for a de facto prime minister. Voting for one
of two candidates took place at 53 polling stations set up by the
election commission in India, Nepal, North America, Europe, Australia
and Taiwan.
(AFP, 6/3/06)
2006 Jun 3, The long-awaited first
shipment of Caspian oil from the new Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline
got on its way from a Turkish port.
(AFP, 6/4/06)
2006 Jun 3, President Hugo Chavez
inaugurated a Venezuelan film studio to counter what he called
Hollywood's cultural "dictatorship." Venezuela received 30,000
Russian-made assault rifles, the first shipment in a deal for 100,000
rifles.
(AP, 6/3/06)
2007 Jun 3, After attending the
MTV Movie Awards, Paris Hilton reported to jail to serve a 45-day
sentence for a probation violation in an alcohol-related reckless
driving case. Hilton was released after three days behind bars for an
unspecified medical condition, but a Los Angeles County judge ordered
her back to jail.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2007 Jun 3, In Afghanistan 3
"enemies of peace and stability" were killed when a bomb they were
planting exploded in the eastern province of Laghman. An Afghan army
soldier was killed and another was injured by a remotely-controlled
Taliban bomb in Zabul province.
(AFP, 6/4/07)
2007 Jun 3, Australia’s PM John
Howard ditched his opposition to a greenhouse gas reduction target for
Australia with a pledge to set a national pollution limit next year.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, A strong earthquake
shook a hilly southwestern Chinese region near the border with Laos,
killing at least three people.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, A 19-year-old Chinese
soldier died of the virulent strain of bird flu, the country's 16th
reported death from the virus.
(AP, 6/4/07)
2007 Jun 3, In northeast India
suspected rebels ambushed a police vehicle, killing four policemen and
injuring two others.
(AP, 6/4/07)
2007 Jun 3, A car parked near a
police station and an open-air market exploded in Balad Ruz, northeast
of Baghdad, killing nine civilians and one policeman and wounding 25
other people. Elsewhere in Diyala province gunmen stopped a commuter
minibus and raked its passengers with gunfire, killing five people and
injuring seven. American helicopter gunships attacked targets in Mahdi
Army-dominated Shiite east Baghdad, killing four suspected militants.
Mahdi Army militiamen battled with Iraqi troops and local police
searching for two militia leaders in the southern city of Diwaniyah. At
least three people were killed and 24 wounded. 4 US soldiers died in a
single roadside bombing northwest of Baghdad. Two other soldiers were
killed and five were wounded along with an Iraqi interpreter in two
separate roadside bombings.
(AP, 6/3/07)(AP, 6/4/07)
2007 Jun 3, In Libya African
leaders sought to reconcile differences between neighbors Chad and
Sudan over Darfur and boost Somalia's embattled transitional government
at a regional summit.
(AFP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, In southern Mexico
tons of bananas collapsed the false floor of a tractor-trailer
smuggling migrants, killing 6 people hidden inside a secret compartment
and wounding a dozen others.
(AP, 6/4/07)
2007 Jun 3, Heavy gunfire rang out
from inside a bombed out Palestinian refugee camp as the Lebanese army
pounded Islamic militants holed up inside during the third day of a
military offensive aimed at crushing the al-Qaida-inspired group.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, Some 2,000 men and
women participated in a series of four nude group photos in Amsterdam
in the early hours of the morning as part of the latest project of US
photographer Spencer Tunick.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, Nigerian gunmen
kidnapped six foreign staff of United Company RUSAL after blowing up
their apartment with explosives in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi.
(Reuters, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, Hamas militants
wounded four Israeli soldiers in a mortar attack on a base near the
Gaza Strip, shortly after Israel's PM Ehud Olmert vowed to press ahead
with military operations against Palestinian gunmen.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, President Vladimir
Putin warned that Moscow could take "retaliatory steps" if Washington
proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system for Europe,
including possibly aiming nuclear weapons at targets on the continent.
(WSJ, 6/4/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 3, A severe landslide has
nearly obliterated one of Russia's most noted natural wonders, the
Valley of Geysers. A snow-covered mound collapsed "within seconds" and
caused a massive landslide, about a mile long and 600 feet wide,
burying two-thirds of the valley.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 3, In Sierra Leone a
helicopter ferrying passengers to the main airport crashed, bursting
into flames and killing 22 people, mostly Togo soccer fans.
(AP, 6/4/07)(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 3, A suicide car bomber
drove through a roadblock guarding the home of the Somali prime
minister and rammed the vehicle into a wall. PM Ali Mohamed Gedi was
whisked to safety, but at least five people were killed in the
explosion.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, Turkish troops shelled
a border area in northern Iraq in an attack on Kurdish rebels based
there.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2007 Jun 3, Pope Benedict XVI
named four new saints from France, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland at
a ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Among those honored was Sister Marie
Eugenie de Jesus Milleret, a French nun who in 1839 founded the
Religious of the Assumption to educate young girls; the Rev. George
Preca of Malta, who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine in 1932
as a group of lay people who teach the faith to others; the Rev. Szymon
z Lipnicy of Poland, a Franciscan monk who comforted Poles afflicted by
the plague that broke out in Krakow from 1482-83 and died of it
himself; and the Rev. Charles of St. Andrew (Dublin), who was born
Karel Van Sint Andries Houben in the Netherlands in 1821.
(AP, 6/3/07)
2008 Jun 3, Barack Obama sealed
the US Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton did not give
up yet, but said she’d be interested in the No. 2 spot. Obama won the
Montana primary, while Clinton won the South Dakota primary.
(AP, 6/4/08)(SFC, 6/4/08, p.A1)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.35)
2008 Jun 3, Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke said that US interest rates were "well
positioned" for an economy facing both price pressures and threats to
growth, but issued a rare warning on the inflation risks posed by a
weak dollar.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, In Ohio Christopher
Paul (44), pleaded guilty to planning terrorist attacks. He was accused
of joining al-Qaida in the early 1990s and helping teach Muslim
extremists how to bomb US and european targets.
(http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVlFdiHopuka4A5g4J-eVGRq-BzgD912SEC80)
2008 Jun 3, A Denver, Colorado
court fined Dow Chemical Co. and Boeing Co. a combined $926 million for
property damages caused by plutonium contamination from a nuclear
weapons plant. The initial trial had concluded in February 2006. Dow
planned to appeal. The Rocky Flats plant was operated by Dow from 1953
to 1975, and then by defense contractor Rockwell until its closing in
1994; it supplied the plutonium triggers for the US nuclear bomb
arsenal.
(AFP, 6/4/08)
2008 Jun 3, SF voters (61%)
approved Proposition G endorsing plans for a major housing and
commercial development at the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick
Point. Voters also passed Proposition A, a $198 annual school parcel
tax, which would expire in 2028.
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.A1, B1)(SFC, 6/5/08, p.B1)
2008 Jun 3, UAL Corp's United
Airlines announced plans to slash jobs and flights, following a similar
move by AMR Corp's American Airlines last month.
(Reuters, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 3, General Motors said it
is closing four truck and SUV plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico as
surging fuel prices hasten a dramatic shift to smaller vehicles.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, In Afghanistan US
General David McKiernan took over the 52,000-strong International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) at a ceremony in Kabul attended by
President Hamid Karzai and a host of dignitaries. 2 Afghan security
guards were killed when militants ambushed their convoy in the southern
province of Zabul. In eastern Khost province unknown gunmen shot dead a
district intelligence chief. A suicide car bomber targeting Canadian
troops in Kandahar province killed one Afghan child. A Canadian officer
was killed in Kandahar province when his foot patrol came under enemy
fire. In southern Afghanistan US-led coalition forces killed more than
a dozen insurgents.
(AFP, 6/3/08)(Reuters, 6/4/08)(AP, 6/4/08)
2008 Jun 3, Four Algerian
Christians received suspended jail terms and fines for seeking to
convert Muslims in the latest in a series of cases to have provoked
accusations in the West of religious repression.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, Belize PM Dean Barrow
declared a disaster area in southern Stann Creek Valley as flash
flooding carried away houses and ripped a child from his father's
grasp. Falling trees killed two people in Honduras, raising the death
toll from Central America's twin tropical storms this week to at least
nine.
(AP, 6/4/08)
2008 Jun 3, In France a Paris
court convicted Brigitte Bardot of provoking discrimination and racial
hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. She was fined
$23,325.
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.A4)
2008 Jun 3, Greece's first gay
weddings were held when two couples, abetted by a sympathetic local
mayor, defied the threat of criminal charges and the wrath of the
Orthodox church to tie the knot on the tiny Aegean island of Tilos.
(Reuters, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, In Iraq the US
military captured two al-Qaida in Iraq bombing suspects and a Shiite
militia leader in separate raids north and south of Baghdad. The bodies
of at least 23 Iraqis were discovered in a shallow grave and a sewer
shaft at separate sites near Baghdad.
(AP, 6/3/08)(AP, 6/4/08)
2008 Jun 3, A Cabinet minister
said Malaysia will remove price controls on gasoline and diesel,
allowing stations to sell fuel at world market prices in an attempt to
reduce the government's ballooning subsidy bill.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, In Mexico Claudio
Conti (53) was reportedly kidnapped along Zicatela beach in Puerto
Escondido, where he operated the Da Claudio restaurant and a hotel. On
Feb 28, 2009, Mexican police said they had captured four men suspected
of kidnapping the Italian businessman, and that one of the men told
police the victim had been ordered killed, though it was not clear if
the slaying was carried out.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2008 Jun 3, The Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) raised its lending rate (MPR) to 10.25 percent from 10
percent to tame high inflation triggered by rising global food prices.
(AP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, The Good Friends, a
Seoul-based humanitarian group, said that a highly contagious disease
has sparked a health alert with an estimated five or six children dying
every day since April 27 in North Korea’s city of Hoeryong. A doctor
said hand-foot-mouth disease could be spreading from China, where it
has killed several dozen children.
(AFP, 6/3/08)
2008 Jun 3, In Sweden world chess
star turned political activist Garry Kasparov told world news industry
leaders that PM Vladimir Putin had assaulted press freedoms in Russia,
and urged them to challenge Kremlin leaders over the issue.
(AP, 6/4/08)
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