June 3
Today is the 154th day of 2017, there are 211 days left in the year.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1861 - Politician Stephen Douglas died.
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act of 1916, which, among other things, created the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC).
1937 - Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne as King Edward VIII, married Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in Monts, France.
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81; he was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
1965 - Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1977 - The United States and Cuba agreed to set up diplomatic interests sections in each other's countries; Cuba also announced the immediate release of 10 Americans jailed on drug charges.
1979 - The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.
1982 - Israel's ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, was shot and critically wounded outside a London hotel. The assassination attempt was followed by Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
1989 - Chinese army troops head to Beijing to crush the student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1989 - Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.
1999 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001 - Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.
2008 - Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
2009 - New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2011 - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebel rockets barraged his palace; he later went to Saudi Arabia for treatment.
2011 - Physician-assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at a Michigan hospital at age 83.
Birthdays
26 - Natasha Dupeyron (actress)
26 - Kate Wright (reality star)
28 - Imogen Poots (actress)
30 - Lalaine (actress)
30 - Michelle Keegan (actress)
31 - Al Horford (basketball player)
31 - Rafael Nadal (tennis player)
32 - Dan Ewing (actor)
50 - Anderson Cooper (TV host)
67 - Deniece Williams (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 3
1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. They wore straw hats, white shirts and blue trousers.
1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1932 - Lou Gehrig hits four consecutive home runs; New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Athletics 20-13.
1980 - ESPN begins televising college World Series games.
1987 - Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros tie Baltimore Orioles' and Texas Rangers' record of three grand slams in a game.
1989 - Houston Astros beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09).
2000 - Stanford defeated Nebraska 7-1 in the second game of the Palo Alto Super Regional.
2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.
2005 - Nebraska defeated Illinois-Chicago 8-6 to open the Lincoln Regional.
2006 - San Francisco defeated Nebraska 5-1 to eliminate the Huskers from the Lincoln Regional. Nebraska ended the year with a 42-17 record.
2007 - Nebraska defeated UC-Riverside 11-1 in an elimination game at the Tempe Regional but then fell to Arizona State 19-7 and was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. The Huskers ended the year with a 32-27 record.
2016 - Nebraska opened the Clemson Regional with a 6-0 loss to Oklahoma State.
2016 - Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxing champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, died at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, at age 74.
Today is the 154th day of 2017, there are 211 days left in the year.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1861 - Politician Stephen Douglas died.
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act of 1916, which, among other things, created the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC).
1937 - Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne as King Edward VIII, married Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in Monts, France.
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81; he was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
1965 - Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1977 - The United States and Cuba agreed to set up diplomatic interests sections in each other's countries; Cuba also announced the immediate release of 10 Americans jailed on drug charges.
1979 - The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.
1982 - Israel's ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, was shot and critically wounded outside a London hotel. The assassination attempt was followed by Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
1989 - Chinese army troops head to Beijing to crush the student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1989 - Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.
1999 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001 - Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.
2008 - Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
2009 - New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2011 - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when rebel rockets barraged his palace; he later went to Saudi Arabia for treatment.
2011 - Physician-assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at a Michigan hospital at age 83.
Birthdays
26 - Natasha Dupeyron (actress)
26 - Kate Wright (reality star)
28 - Imogen Poots (actress)
30 - Lalaine (actress)
30 - Michelle Keegan (actress)
31 - Al Horford (basketball player)
31 - Rafael Nadal (tennis player)
32 - Dan Ewing (actor)
50 - Anderson Cooper (TV host)
67 - Deniece Williams (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 3
1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. They wore straw hats, white shirts and blue trousers.
1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1932 - Lou Gehrig hits four consecutive home runs; New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Athletics 20-13.
1980 - ESPN begins televising college World Series games.
1987 - Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros tie Baltimore Orioles' and Texas Rangers' record of three grand slams in a game.
1989 - Houston Astros beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09).
2000 - Stanford defeated Nebraska 7-1 in the second game of the Palo Alto Super Regional.
2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.
2005 - Nebraska defeated Illinois-Chicago 8-6 to open the Lincoln Regional.
2006 - San Francisco defeated Nebraska 5-1 to eliminate the Huskers from the Lincoln Regional. Nebraska ended the year with a 42-17 record.
2007 - Nebraska defeated UC-Riverside 11-1 in an elimination game at the Tempe Regional but then fell to Arizona State 19-7 and was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. The Huskers ended the year with a 32-27 record.
2016 - Nebraska opened the Clemson Regional with a 6-0 loss to Oklahoma State.
2016 - Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxing champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, died at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, at age 74.
