03 June - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on June 03, the day number in a year is 154 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 155. June 03 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
June 03 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1658 | Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as vicarapostolic of New France. |
| 1770 | Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholicmission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established. |
| 1781 | American Revolutionary War-Jack Jouett made a 'midnight ride'to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of coming Britishcavalry who had been sent to capture them. |
| 1781 | Jack Jott warns Thomas Jefferson of a British attack. |
| 1789 | Alex McKenzie discovered the Mackenzie River Canada). |
| 1818 | The Maratha War ended between the British and Maratha Confederates in India. |
| 1828 | In the Gran Colombia-Peru War, President Simon Bolivar declared war on Peru. |
| 1839 | Qing government official Lin Zexu precipitated the First Opium War by ordering the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 millionlbs) of opium in Humen, China. |
| 1856 | Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine. |
| 1886 | 24 Christians were burnt alive in Namagongo, Uganda. |
| 1888 | American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem 'Casey at theBat' was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. |
| 1915 | The British government awarded Nobel Prize-awarded poet Rabindranath Tagore with 'Knighthood'. |
| 1918 | Gandhi literature presided over the Hindi Literature Conference in Indore. Hindi was considered as the official language in that. |
| 1937 | Nearly six months after Edward, Duke of Windsor, abdicated theBritish throne, he married American socialite Wallis Simpson in aprivate ceremony near Tours, France. |
| 1940 | Franz Rademacher, a Nazi government official, proposed thatMadagascar should be made available for the resettlement of the Jews ofEurope. |
| 1943 | Off-duty US sailors fought with Mexican American youths in LosAngeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots. |
| 1947 | Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India under the British Raj, announced the partition of India. Which Indian leaders accepted. |
| 1962 | The Air France Baying-707 aircraft crashed after taking off from Paris, killing 130 people. |
| 1963 | Buddhist crisis-South Vietnamese Army soldiers attackedprotesting Buddhists in Hu?, with liquid chemicals from tear gasgrenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised. |
| 1968 | American artist Andy Warhol and two others were shot andwounded at his New York City studio 'The Factory' by radical feministValerie Solanas. |
| 1968 | Canada announced the conversion of nickel coins to silver. |
| 1972 | The first India-made modern-era warship INS Nilgiri was launched into the Indian Navy. |
| 1973 | At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-flightand disintegrated, killing the six members of the crew and eightbystanders on the ground. |
| 1982 | An assassination attempt on Shlomo Argov, the Israeliambassador to the United Kingdom, failed; this was later used asjustification for the 1982 Lebanon War. |
| 1984 | Operation Blue Star started at the famous Gurudwara Harmandir Sahib Gurudwara i.e. Golden Temple in Amritsar in Punjab. By the order of the Government of India, the purpose of this military campaign was to eliminate Janrail Singh Bhindranwala. |
| 1987 | Vanuatu Labor Party was established. |
| 1989 | The world's first HDTV broadcast was launched in Japan's analog city. |
| 2006 | Pakistan bans The Da Vinci Code film because it is said to contain blasphemous material about Jesus. The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 American mystery-thriller film produced by John Calley and Brian Grazer and directed by Ron Howard. The screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman and adapted from Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel of the same name. The film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno, and Paul Bettany. |
| 2007 | A 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes southern China near the Myanmar and Laos borders, causing casualties. |
| 2008 | China National Petroleum Corporation signs an agreement to produce oil in Niger. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a Chinese state-owned oil and gas corporation and the largest integrated energy company in China. Its headquarters are in Dongcheng District, Beijing. CNPC is the parent of PetroChina, the fourth largest company in the world in terms of revenue as of July 2014. |
| 2009 | American author Marilynne Robinson wins the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Home. Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. She has received several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005 and the 2012 National Humanities Medal. |
| 2010 | British Airways issues an apology for a photograph in a staff magazine which implied Osama Bin Laden had a frequent flyer boarding pass for first class. |
| 2011 | Copenhagen Suborbitals fire the world's largest privately-built rocket, HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe into the Baltic Sea, 30 km east of Nexø. Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Danish non-profit aerospace organization that has constructed and launched several privately built rockets. The organization's main goal is to develop relatively inexpensive forms of suborbital manned spaceflight outside government programs and the influence of large, for-profit corporations. |
| 2012 | In golf, Tiger Woods wins the Memorial Tournament played at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, tying with Jack Nicklaus for PGA Tour victories. Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years. |
| 2012 | Dana Air Flight 992, a passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos,Nigeria, suffered dual engine failure and crashed into a building,resulting in the deaths of all 153 on board and ten more on the ground. |
| 2013 | Software engineer Atul Chitnis, known as India's "open source guru", dies at age 50. Atul Chitnis (20 February 1962 – 3 June 2013) was an Indian consulting technologist. He was one of the organizers of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore) which was one of Asia's free and open source software (FOSS) conferences. |
| 2013 | 119 people died in a fire at a chicken farm in Jilin province in northeastern China. |
| 2014 | Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team. Hashim Mohammad Amla (born 31 March 1983) is a South African cricketer. A right-handed batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler, Amla bats at number three for South Africa in Test matches and opens for them in One Day Internationals. |
| 2015 | The United States presidential election of 2016 is expected to be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. It will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters in the election will select presidential electors who in turn will elect a new President and Vice President of the United States. The incumbent president, Barack Obama, is ineligible to be elected to a third term due to term limits in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
Famous Birthdays of June 03:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1925 | Thomas Winning / Cardinal / Scotland |
| 1910 | Paulette Goddard / Actress / United States of America |
| 1991 | Ava Seumanufagai / Rugby Player / New Zealand |
| 1928 | John Richard Reid / Cricketer / New Zealand |
| 1946 | Penelope Wilton / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1900 | Adelaide Ames / Academic / United States of America |
| 1881 | Mikhail Larionov / Painter / Russia |
| 1832 | Charles Lecocq / Painist / France |
| 1946 | Eddie Holman / Singer / United States of America |
| 1923 | Igor Shafarevich / Mathematician / Russia |
| 1968 | Saffron / Singer / Nigeria |
| 1943 | Billy Cunningham / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 1944 | Eddy Ottoz / Hurdler / Italy |
| 1905 | Martin Gottfried Weiss / Army Officer / Germany |
| 1947 | John Dykstra / Producer / United States of America |
| 1907 | Paul Rotha / Director / United Kingdom |
| 1924 | Bernard Glasser / Producer / United States of America |
| 1979 | Christian Malcolm / Sprinter / United Kingdom |
| 1971 | Carl Everett / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1960 | Don Brown / Author / United States of America |
| 1962 | David Cole / Producer / United States of America |
| 1956 | Brad Nessler / Sportscaster / United States of America |
| 1945 | Roger Lane-Nott / Admiral / United Kingdom |
| 1964 | James Purefoy / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 1918 | Lili St. Cyr / Dancer / United States of America |
| 1986 | Rafael Nadal / Tennis Player / Spain |
| 1864 | Ransom E. Olds / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1963 | Toshiaki Karasawa / Actor / Japan |
| 1928 | Donald Judd / Painter / United States of America |
| 1936 | Larry McMurtry / Writer / United States of America |
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