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June 3

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June 2017 London attack

9 years ago

Born this day

1986

Rafael Nadal

Turns 40

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Oldest record

369th

William Harvey

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Famous births29

1726 · 300 yrs

James Hutton

James Hutton (3 June O.S. 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. Often referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology," he played a key role in establishing geology as a modern science.

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ScienceDied aged 70

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1770 · 256 yrs

Manuel Belgrano

Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (Spanish pronunciation:), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader.

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PoliticsDied aged 50

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1808 · 218 yrs

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

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PoliticsDied aged 81

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1843 · 183 yrs

Frederik VIII of Denmark

Frederick VIII (Danish: Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl; 3 June 1843 – 14 May 1912) was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912. As the eldest son of King Christian IX, nicknamed "the father-in-law of Europe", and grandfather of Europe Frederick was related to royalty throughout Europe.

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RoyaltyDied aged 68

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1844 · 182 yrs

Garret Hobart

Garret Augustus Hobart (June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899) was the 24th vice president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his death in 1899, under President William McKinley.

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PoliticsDied aged 55

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1865 · 161 yrs

George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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RoyaltyDied aged 70

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1867 · 159 yrs

Konstantin Balmont

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (Russian: Константин Дмитриевич Бальмонт; 15 June 1867 – 23 December 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1873 · 153 yrs

Otto Loewi

Otto Loewi (German:; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter.

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ScienceDied aged 88

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1899 · 127 yrs

Georg von Békésy

Georg von Békésy (Hungarian: Békésy György, pronounced; 3 June 1899 – 13 June 1972) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist. By using strobe photography and silver flakes as a marker, he was able to observe that the basilar membrane moves like a surface wave when stimulated by sound.

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1906 · 120 yrs

Josephine Baker

Freda Josephine Baker (née McDonald; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, and a spy for the French Resistance. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France.

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MusicWould be 120

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1910 · 116 yrs

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress and socialite. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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FilmWould be 116

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1922 · 104 yrs

Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais (French:; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.

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FilmWould be 104

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Famous deaths22

1657 · 369 yrs

William Harvey

William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology.

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ScienceDied aged 79

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1844 · 182 yrs

Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême

Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the elder son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He was a petit-fils de France at birth, and was initially known as Louis Antoine d'Artois.

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RoyaltyDied aged 68

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1875 · 151 yrs

Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.

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MusicDied aged 36

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1899 · 127 yrs

Johann Strauss II

Johann Baptist Strauss II (German:; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (German: Johann Strauß Sohn), or simply Johann Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist.

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MusicDied aged 73

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1924 · 102 yrs

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish writer and novelist from Prague.

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LiteratureWould be 143

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1925 · 101 yrs

Camille Flammarion

Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (French:; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics.

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ScienceDied aged 83

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1946 · 80 yrs

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: Михаил Иванович Калинин, IPA:; 19 November 1875 – 3 June 1946) was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946.

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PoliticsWould be 150

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1963 · 63 yrs

John XXIII

Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

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ReligionWould be 144

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1963 · 63 yrs

Nâzım Hikmet

Mehmed Nâzım Ran (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: ), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements".

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LiteratureWould be 124

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1964 · 62 yrs

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finnish:; 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish writer.

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LiteratureWould be 138

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1970 · 56 yrs

Hjalmar Schacht

Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht (German:; 22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during the Weimar Republic.

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PoliticsWould be 149

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1975 · 51 yrs

Eisaku Satō

Eisaku Satō (佐藤栄作, Satō Eisaku; 27 March 1901 – 3 June 1975) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. He was the third longest-serving and longest-uninterrupted–serving Japanese prime minister.

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PoliticsWould be 125

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Events5

1910 · 116 yrs

Amundsen's South Pole expedition

The first expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical South Pole on 14 December 1911, which was to be five weeks ahead of the British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition.

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History

1942 · 84 yrs

Aleutian Islands Campaign

The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Alyūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands, part of the US Territory of Alaska, in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War.

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War

1992 · 34 yrs

Earth Summit

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92, Cúpula da Terra), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

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Politics

2017 · 9 yrs

June 2017 London attack

On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack took place in London, England. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames.

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Tragedy

2017 · 9 yrs

2017 UEFA Champions League Final

The 2017 UEFA Champions League final was the final match of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the 62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

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