June 3

Events

1098 – First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain
1784 - US Congress creates the United States Army
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1965 - First Space Walk, where for 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV.
1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (CSA) (d. 1889)
1844 - Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban leader