It happened on this day, June 3
events:
708 – The first silver coins are minted in Japan.
1098 – Crusaders occupy the city of Antioch during the First Crusade.
1539 – Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto raises his country's flag on American soil in Florida and declares it a colony subject to the Spanish crown.
1859 – Big Ben in London begins operation during the reign of Queen Victoria.
1906 – King Leopold II of Belgium declares the Congo colony in West Africa his private property.
1916 – Medina becomes the scene of a war between Arabs and Turks.
1917 – Declaration of independence of Albania.
1944 – Charles de Gaulle becomes Prime Minister of France.
1957 – The Economic Council of the Arab League decides to establish economic unity among the countries of the League.
1959 – Singapore declares independence.
1962 – A Boeing 707 belonging to Air France crashes shortly after takeoff from Paris, killing 130 passengers on board.
1974 – Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister.
1989 – The Chinese government sends its forces to Tiananmen Square to impose control after weeks of sit-ins by protesters.
1991 – Lava flows from Mount Unzen in Nagasaki kill 43 people.
2006 – Montenegro declares its independence and secession from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2007 – Hurricane Gonu formed in the Arabian Sea, which violently hit the coast of the Sultanate of Oman, destroying and causing millions of dollars in losses. It then headed towards Iran after becoming a tropical storm.
2010 – The Supreme Electoral Commission in Egypt announces the voting results of the mid-term elections for the Shura Council, which were in the interest of the ruling National Democratic Party, which won 60 seats out of the 64 for which the vote was decided, while the other four seats were won by the National Progressive Unionist Rally and the Nasserian National Democratic Party, the Democratic Generation Party and the dissident wing of Ayman Nour's Al-Ghad party, with one seat for each party, and the Muslim Brotherhood announces that none of its candidates will win and accuses the National Party of rigging the elections.
2011 – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the victim of an assassination attempt along with senior members of his government by bombing a mosque near the presidential palace. The incident occurred as popular protests intensified denouncing Hakam and demanding his departure.
2017 – 7 people were killed and 48 people were injured following a series of car ramming, stabbing and shooting attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market in Britain. Real Madrid won the 2017 Champions League for the second time in a row and the 12th in its history, beating Juventus 4-1 in the final.
2019 – The sit-in at the General Command in Sudan was dispersed, leaving more than 100 people dead and hundreds injured.
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Births:
1808 – Jefferson Davis, sole president of the American Confederation.
1844 – Detlef von Lilienkron, German poet.
1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German playwright, poet and storyteller.
1865 – King George V, king of the United Kingdom.
1873 – Otto Lovy, Austrian physician and pharmacologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1936.
1888 – Serena Ibrahim, Egyptian artist.
1899 – Georg von Bekesee, American physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1961.
1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1981.
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor.
1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1978.
1931 – Anton Moravcic, Slovak footballer.
1933 – Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Emir of Bahrain.
1943 – Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Egyptian actor.
1946 – Muhammad Al-Assar, Egyptian soldier.
1961 – Faisal Al-Qasim, Syrian journalist.
1969 – Saeed Quraish, Saudi actor.
1970 – Wafaa Sadiq, Egyptian actress.
1977 – Cristiano Márquez Gomez, Brazilian footballer.
1980 – Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar.
** Omar Al-Saidi, Jordanian singer.
1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player.
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Death:
1533 – Hasan bin Nuh Al-Bahruji, an Indian Ismaili Muslim scholar.
1657 – William Harvey, English physician.
1826 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian novelist.
1861 – Étienne A. Douglas, American politician.
1875 – Georges Bizet, French musician.
1899 – Johann Strauss Jr., Austrian musician.
1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech writer.
1963 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet.
1964 – Frans Emil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1939.
1968 – Saif al-Din al-Kilani, Palestinian-Jordanian diplomat, academic and poet.
1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist.
1975 – Eisako Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
1977 – Archibald Hull, English physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1922.
1989 – Imam Khomeini, Shiite cleric and spiritual leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution.
2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican/American actor.
1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist and inventor.
2003 – Kanaan Hamad, Kuwaiti actor, director and author.
2004 – Maryam Al-Ghadhban, Kuwaiti actress.
2006 – Saad Al-Fraih, Saudi director.
2009 – David Carradine, American actor.
2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American doctor.
2013-Jiah Khan, Indian actress.
2016 – Muhammad Ali Clay, American boxer.
2020 – Abdel Fadil Al-Qusi, former Egyptian Minister of Endowments.
2021 – Anairwood Gunauth, Mauritian politician who served as Prime Minister of his country.
** Ernie Lovely, American actor and director.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky and Louisiana.
