Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 3
This is a list of selected June 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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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. | refimprove |
| 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Roman Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established. | refimprove section |
| 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was constructed between Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. | Date needs to be verified, and it would probably be better to feature the first in the world, not just the US |
| 1968 – American artist Andy Warhol and two others were shot and wounded at his New York City studio "The Factory" by radical feminist Valerie Solanas. | needs 3rd party sources |
| 1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its decision in the landmark case Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines. | no footnotes |
| 1998 – An InterCityExpress high-speed train derailed near Eschede, Lower Saxony, Germany (wreckage pictured), causing 101 deaths and 100 injuries. | refimprove |
| 2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1962 – Air France's Chateau de Sully crashed while attempting to depart Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130 out of 132 passengers and crew members.
June 3: Feast day of Saint Charles Lwanga and the Uganda Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, Lutheranism)
- 1839 – In Humen, China, Qing government official Lin Zexu (pictured) ordered the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium, the primary catalyst for the First Opium War.
- 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1937 – Nearly six months after he abdicated the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony near Tours, France.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attacked protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
- 1984 – The Indian Army began Operation Blue Star to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple based on accusations they were stockpiling weapons there.