Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 3

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  Portland, Oregon
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  The Eschede train disaster
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  François de Laval
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  Lin Zexu
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  Andy Warhol
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  Great auks by John Gerrard Keulemans
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  Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C.
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  One of the last two great auks
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  Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus of the Constantinian dynasty proclaimed himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome with a group of gladiators.	too short
1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic.	unreferenced section
1839 – Qing Chinese government official Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of nearly Template:Nowrap kg (Template:Nowrap lbs) of opium in Humen, precipitating the First Opium War.	refimprove sections
1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.	refimprove section
1941 – World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos and killed about 180 of its inhabitants.	unreferenced section
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launched two aircraft carrier raids on the United States Army barracks and the U.S. Navy base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.	refimprove section
1943 – Off-duty U.S. sailors fought with Mexican American youths in Los Angeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots.	Tagged for citations
1962 – Air France's Chateau de Sully crashed while attempting to depart Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130 out of 132 passengers and crew members.	refimprove section
1984 – The Indian Army began Operation Blue Star to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple based on accusations they were stockpiling weapons there.	refimprove section
1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its decision in the landmark case Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines.	more footnotes
1998 – An InterCityExpress high-speed train derailed near Eschede, Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths and 100 injuries.	multiple issues
2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro.	refimprove sections
2012 – Dana Air Flight 0992 suffered a dual-engine failure on approach and crashed into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, resulting in the deaths of all 153 people on board and 10 more on the ground.	page numbers needed

Eligible

• 1602 – Anglo-Spanish War: The English navy defeated a Spanish–Portuguese fleet off Sesimbra, Portugal, and captured a carrack.
• 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1882 – The British merchant ship Virago sank off Alderney with the loss of 26 crew.
• 1917 – A socialist convention in Leeds, United Kingdom, called for and end to the First World War and the establishment of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates across the country.
• 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."
• 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.
• 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.
• 1963 – Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese soldiers attacked Buddhist protesters in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
• 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.
• 1973 – At the Paris Air Show, a [[Tupolev Tu-144|Tupolev Template:Nowrap]] broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
• 1979 – Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
• 2025 – Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (pictured) resigned after weeks of protests.
• Born/died this day: | Staurakios |d|800| Sejanus |b|20 BC| Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria |d|1395| Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah |d|1511| Thomas Hutchinson |d|1780| Martha Jane Knowlton Coray |b|1821| Charles Lecocq |b|1832| Georges Bizet |d|1875| Flora MacDonald |b|1926| Jill Biden |b|1951| Susannah Constantine |b|1962

Notes

• 1953 British Mount Everest expedition appears on May 29, so Annapurna should not appear in the same year
• Air France Flight 447 appears on June 1, so Flight 007 should not appear in the same year

June 3: Martyrs Day in Uganda Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett (pictured) rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
• 1892 – Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
• 1937 – Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in France.
• 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.
• 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.