Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: June 3
June 3, 2024 is the 155th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 3
- 1608 –Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
- 1621 –The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
- 1839 –In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
- 1889 –The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 mi between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
- 1942 –World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
- 1943 –In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
- 1962 –An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
- 1968 –Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
- 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.
Who were born on June 3?
- 1723 –Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
- 1819 –Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
- 1904 –Charles R. Drew, American surgeon,(d. 1950)
- 1907 –Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
- 1913 –Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
- 1923 –Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
- 1936 –Jim Gentile, baseball player
- 1964 –Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
- 1981 –Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
- 1987 –Michelle Keegan, British actress
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