What are the important events that happened on June 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 3 is the 154^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 21, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,748,908,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontatetragon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 259 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,547 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 3 Historical Events

• 1539 –
  Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
• 1620 –
  Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• 1885 –
  In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• 1937 –
  The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• 1950 –
  First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna is summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal
• 1965 –
  Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
• 1969 –
  Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
• 1979 –
  A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3000000 oilbbl of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• 1980 –
  The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.
• 1998 –
  Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.

Who were born on June 3?

• 1540 –
  Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1881 –
  Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
• 1899 –
  Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
• 1903 –
  Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1918 –
  Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
• 1923 –
  Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
• 1947 –
  John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
• 1950 –
  Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
• 1967 –
  Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
• 1984 –
  Emily Scott, Australian model

Who died on June 3?

• 1395 –
  Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
• 1615 –
  Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• 1659 –
  Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
• 1875 –
  Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 –
  Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
• 1975 –
  Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
• 1977 –
  Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
• 1987 –
  Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
• 2005 –
  Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
• 2011 –
  Andrew Gold, American singer, musician and songwriter (b. 1951)