June 3 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for June 3
In the headlines today:

2001	Actor Anthony Quinn dies in a Boston hospital at age 86.
2000	William Simon, former US Treasury Secretary and Energy Secretary, dies in Santa Barbara, California, at age 72.
1989	Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies.
1981	Pope John Paul II returns to the Vatican, after a three week hospital stay to recover from an unsuccessful assassination attempt. (photo credit: NARA)
1972	The Rolling Stones begin a 32-date North American concert tour, with a show in Vancouver, Canada. *Did you know?* This tour would bring in $4 million; at the time, the highest-grossing concert tour ever.
1968	Op-art creator Andy Warhol is shot and badly wounded at his studio in New York City.
1965	Gemini 4 astronaut Edward White makes the first space walk by an American.
1963	Pope John XXIII dies at the age of 81.
1959	The first cadet class graduates from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1948	The 200-inch telescope at the Mount Palomar Observatory is dedicated.
1937	The Duke of Windsor, who as King Edward VIII had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1899	Composer Johann Strauss II dies in Vienna, at age 73.
1875	French composer and pianist Georges Bizet dies in Paris, at age 38.
1851	The New York Knickerbockers baseball club becomes the first pro baseball team to wear uniforms.
1621	The Dutch West India Company is chartered for New Netherlands, now known as New York.