History of the Day for:
June 3
- 1621: The Dutch West India Co. accepted a charter for New Netherlands, later renamed New York.
- 1800: John Adams became the first president to live in the White House.
- 1808: Jefferson Davis - the first and only president of the Confederacy - was born in Christian County, Ky.
- 1851: The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.
- 1871: Jesse James and his gang robbed the Obocock Bank in Corydon, Iowa, of $15,000.
- 1888: The poem "Casey at the Bat," by Earnest Lawrence Thayer, was published.
- 1911: Paulette Goddard, Ziegfeld model/actress, was born.
- 1932: Lou Gehrig hit four consecutive home runs in one game, setting a baseball record.
- 1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated as King Edward VIII of England, married Wallis Simpson.
- 1963: Pope John the 23rd died at the age of 81.
- 1965: Maj. Edward White became the first astronaut to walk in space outside his Gemini 4 spacecraft.
- 1968: Artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled feminist.
- 1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of Iran, died at age 86.
- 1989: The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
- 1989: SkyDome is officially opened in Toronto, Ontario.
- 1991: Mount Unzen erupts in Kyushu, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
- 1992: Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought about by Eddie Mabo.
- 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.
- 2007: USS Carter Hall engages pirates after they board the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.