3 June 1900

A Sunday in history

Weekday

Sunday

Season

Summer (N. Hemisphere)

Century

19th century

Records

304

  1. 2025

    Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned after weeks of protests.

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  2. 1982

    A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, triggering an Israeli decision to invade Lebanon three days later.

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  3. 1979

    Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.

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  4. 1973

    At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.

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  5. 1969

    During a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea, a collision between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans resulted in the latter vessel being cut in two and the deaths of 74 personnel.

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  6. 1968

    American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, the Factory.

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  7. 1963

    Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese soldiers attacked Buddhist protesters in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.

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  8. 1950

    Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.

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  9. 1941

    World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the German Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos, Greece, and killed about 180 of its inhabitants.

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  10. 1940

    Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.

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  11. 1937

    Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in France.

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  12. 1921

    At his trial for the assassination of Talaat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted after arguing: "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer."

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  13. 1917

    A socialist convention in Leeds, United Kingdom, called for an end to the First World War and the establishment of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates across the country.

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  14. 1892

    Liverpool F.C. (stadium pictured), one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.

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  15. 1882

    The British merchant ship Virago sank off Alderney with the loss of 26 crew.

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  16. 1844

    The last known pair of great auks (one pictured), the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed on Eldey, Iceland.

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  17. 1781

    American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.

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  18. 1770

    Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established.

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  19. 1658

    Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.

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  20. 1602

    Anglo-Spanish War: The English navy defeated a Spanish–Portuguese fleet off Sesimbra, Portugal, and captured a carrack.

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  21. 1326

    The Treaty of Novgorod established the border between Norway and the Novgorod Republic in Finnmark.

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