June 3
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1781 - Capt. Jack Jouett began riding his horse some 40 miles from Louisa County, Virginia, to Charlottesville, where Gov. Thomas Jefferson and other politicians were located, to warn of approaching British troops who intended to take them prisoner.
1861 - Stephen Douglas died.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII of Britain), married Wallis Simpson.
1943 - The "Zoot Suit Riots" began in Los Angeles as white servicemen clashed with young Latinos wearing distinctive-looking zoot suits; the violence ended when military officials declared the city off limits to enlisted personnel.
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
1965 - Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1968 - Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded at his New York film studio, known as "The Factory," by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled militant feminist who ended up serving three years in prison for assault.
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.
1989 - Chinese army troops headed to Beijing to crush 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 - 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.
2013 - A sharply divided Supreme Court cleared the way for police to take a DNA swab from anyone they arrested for a serious crime.
2017 - A white van slammed into pedestrians on London Bridge, killing eight people; the three attackers were shot and killed by police.
Birthdays
24 - Anne Winters (actress)
25 - Sean Berdy (actor)
27 - Kate Wright (reality star)
29 - Imogen Poots (actress)
31 - Lalaine (actress/singer)
31 - Michelle Keegan (actress)
32 - Josh Segarra (actor)
32 - Al Horford (basketball player)
32 - Rafael Nadal (tennis player)
36 - Jodie Whittaker (actress)
37 - Nikki M. James (actress)
44 - Arianne Zucker (actress)
47 - Vik Sahay (actor)
50 - Jamie O'Neal (country singer)
51 - Anderson Cooper (TV host)
54 - James Purefoy (actor)
60 - Scott Valentine (actor)
60 - Suzie Plakson (actress)
64 - Dan Hill (singer)
68 - Deneice Williams (singer)
72 - Tristan Rogers (actor)
72 - Eddie Holman (singer)
72 - Penelope Wilton (actress)
73 - Hale Irwin (golfer)
83 - Irma P. Hall (actress)
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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 became the first American League player to hit four home runs in one game.
1980 - ESPN began televising College World Series baseball games.
1987 - The Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros combined to hit a record three grand slams in one game.
1989 - The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 in 22 innings.
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.
2013 - Football Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones died in Anaheim Hills, California, at age 74.
2016 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali died in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 74.
2017 - Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels hit his 600th career home run in a 7-2 win over the Minnesota Twins.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1781 - Capt. Jack Jouett began riding his horse some 40 miles from Louisa County, Virginia, to Charlottesville, where Gov. Thomas Jefferson and other politicians were located, to warn of approaching British troops who intended to take them prisoner.
1861 - Stephen Douglas died.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII of Britain), married Wallis Simpson.
1943 - The "Zoot Suit Riots" began in Los Angeles as white servicemen clashed with young Latinos wearing distinctive-looking zoot suits; the violence ended when military officials declared the city off limits to enlisted personnel.
1963 - Pope John XXIII died at age 81.
1965 - Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1968 - Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded at his New York film studio, known as "The Factory," by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled militant feminist who ended up serving three years in prison for assault.
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.
1989 - Chinese army troops headed to Beijing to crush 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 - 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.
2013 - A sharply divided Supreme Court cleared the way for police to take a DNA swab from anyone they arrested for a serious crime.
2017 - A white van slammed into pedestrians on London Bridge, killing eight people; the three attackers were shot and killed by police.
Birthdays
24 - Anne Winters (actress)
25 - Sean Berdy (actor)
27 - Kate Wright (reality star)
29 - Imogen Poots (actress)
31 - Lalaine (actress/singer)
31 - Michelle Keegan (actress)
32 - Josh Segarra (actor)
32 - Al Horford (basketball player)
32 - Rafael Nadal (tennis player)
36 - Jodie Whittaker (actress)
37 - Nikki M. James (actress)
44 - Arianne Zucker (actress)
47 - Vik Sahay (actor)
50 - Jamie O'Neal (country singer)
51 - Anderson Cooper (TV host)
54 - James Purefoy (actor)
60 - Scott Valentine (actor)
60 - Suzie Plakson (actress)
64 - Dan Hill (singer)
68 - Deneice Williams (singer)
72 - Tristan Rogers (actor)
72 - Eddie Holman (singer)
72 - Penelope Wilton (actress)
73 - Hale Irwin (golfer)
83 - Irma P. Hall (actress)
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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 became the first American League player to hit four home runs in one game.
1980 - ESPN began televising College World Series baseball games.
1987 - The Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros combined to hit a record three grand slams in one game.
1989 - The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 in 22 innings.
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.
2013 - Football Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones died in Anaheim Hills, California, at age 74.
2016 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali died in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 74.
2017 - Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels hit his 600th career home run in a 7-2 win over the Minnesota Twins.
