June 3 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 3

• 1986Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• 1931Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba
• 1906Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative
• 1926Allen Ginsberg, American poet
• 1925Tony Curtis, American actor
• 1951Jill Biden, American educator, First Lady of the United States
• 1982Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• 1992Mario Götze, German footballer
• 1910Paulette Goddard, American actress and model
• 1922Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter

What happened on June 3

• 350The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
• 1326The Treaty of Novgorod established the border between Norway and the Novgorod Republic in Finnmark.
• 1658Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
• 1770Mission 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.
• 1889The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
• 1892Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
• 1950Maurice 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.
• 1965The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
• 1992Australian Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo which led to the Native Title Act 1993 overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius.
• 2006The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• 2012The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
• 2025Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.

Also observed on June 3

• Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, and Tennessee, United States)
• Economist day (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Mabo Day (Australia)
• Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)
• World Bicycle Day