June 3: Day Of The Week
June 3, 2013 is the 154th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.
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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
June 3 Historical Events
- 1140 –French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
- 1539 –Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- 1866 –The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
- 1888 –The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1940 –World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
- 1968 –Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- 1973 –A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
- 1980 –The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.
- 1982 –The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
- 1998 –Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
Who were born on June 3?
- 1866 –George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
- 1900 –Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
- 1918 –Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
- 1936 –Jim Gentile, baseball player
- 1939 –Ian Hunter, English musician
- 1964 –James Purefoy, British actor
- 1977 –Travis Hafner, American baseball player
- 1981 –Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
- 1981 –Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
- 1982 –Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
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