This Day in History for 3rd June 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. 1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peters Cathedral 1098 - After 5-month siege in First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (now in modernTurkey) 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. 1357 - Peace of Aat 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain 1540 - Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 1621 - Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa) 1658 - Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. 1665 - Duke of York (future James II) defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft 1748 - Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service 1752 - Moscow houses & churches destroyed by fire 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif 1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack 1789 - Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) 1818 - Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends 1833 - 4th national black convention meets (Phila) 1851 - 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers 1856 - Cullen Whipple patents screw machine 1860 - Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes 1861 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV 1864 - Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor 1871 - Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000 1876 - Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada 1884 - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair 1886 - 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo, Uganda 1888 - Casey at the Bat published (SF Examiner) 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. 1899 - W G Graces last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days 1906 - Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession 1907 - Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines. 1911 - Come Josephine in My Flying Machine hits #1 Outlaw Jesse JamesOutlaw Jesse James 1913 - Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws 1916 - US National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps 1918 - US Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart rules child labor laws unconstitutional 1919 - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks 1921 - A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado 1924 - Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service 1925 - Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits 1925 - Goodyear airship Pilgrim makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin) 1925 - White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit 1929 - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light) 1929 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area resolving border dispute 1930 - Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies 1932 - John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants 1932 - Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat As 20-13 1932 - Paul Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament Baseball Player Lou GehrigBaseball Player Lou Gehrig 1933 - As score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11 1933 - Pope Pius XI encyclical On oppression of the Church in Spain 1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted 1935 - French liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. 1937 - Josh Gibson HRs just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580 drive) 1938 - German law on Entartete Art legalizes art robbery 1939 - 71st Belmont: James Stout riding Johnstown wins in 2:29.6 1939 - Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe 1940 - Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk 1941 - Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol 1941 - German occupiers stamp J on Jewish passports 1943 - United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms 1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots. 1944 - 76th Belmont: G L Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2 Physician Frederick BantingPhysician Frederick Banting 1944 - Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution 1944 - Nazis pull out of Rome 1946 - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris) 1946 - International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals 1947 - British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan 1948 - The musical Sleepy Hollow opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances 1948 - 200 (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory 1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore 1949 - 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown) 1949 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles) 1949 - GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer 1950 - French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal 1952 - Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president 1953 - Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving 1953 - KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins 1953 - Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball 1955 - KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1955 - Stan Musial hits his 300th HR 1956 - 3rd class travel on British Railways ends 1956 - KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open 1957 - Howard Cosells 1st TV show 1958 - Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers 1959 - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado 1959 - Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon 1959 - Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1 1959 - Singapore adopts constitution 1961 - Wildcat closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances 1961 - 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2 US President John F. KennedyUS President John F. Kennedy 1961 - JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna 1962 - Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 1962 - Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open 1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands 1962 - WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. 1964 - Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis & pharyngitis
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