3 June on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born

The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.

The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.

After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.

The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.

Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay.

Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.

The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.

Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.

James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

Foundation of the Academy of the Distrustful in the library room of the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona.

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.

Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending British raid.

In Humen, China, Lin Zexu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.

The last pair of great auks is killed.

American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.

American Civil War: Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin marching to invade the North for a second time, starting the Gettysburg campaign.

American Civil War: Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant sustain heavy casualties attacking Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia.

The British merchant ship Virago sank off Alderney with the loss of 26 crew.

In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

Liverpool F.C. is founded by John Houlding.

The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.

A socialist convention in Leeds, United Kingdom, called for an end to the First World War and the establishment of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates across the country.

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."

One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.

The Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom) marries Wallis Simpson.

Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

World War II: During the Battle of France, the Luftwaffe bombs Paris.

World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.

World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.

In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.

Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.

At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.

Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.

The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.

American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, the Factory.

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, resulting in 74 deaths.

A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.

A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.

The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $1172 million in 2025) worth of damage.

The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.

Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.

The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.

Australian Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo which led to the Native Title Act 1993 overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius.

After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.

The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.

The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.

At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.

Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned after weeks of protests.

Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.

Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba

George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)

Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (died 1975)

Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)

Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 - 1865 (died 1889)

Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)

Jill Biden, American educator, First Lady of the United States

Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter

Mario Götze, German footballer

Paulette Goddard, American actress and model (died 1990)

Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (died 1797)

Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons

Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)

Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

Frederik VIII of Denmark (died 1912)

Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)

Désiré Doué, French footballer

Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (died 1899)

Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (died 1820)

Suzi Quatro, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Łukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer

Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (died 1953)

Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician, geologist, and botanist (died 1788)

Serhiy Rebrov, Ukrainian international footballer and manager

Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author and poet (died 1999)

Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (died 1942)

Imogen Poots, English actress and model

Charles II, Archduke of Austria (died 1590)

Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1999)

Kerry King, American guitarist and songwriter

Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author

Julie Gayet, French actress

Amauri, Italian international footballer

Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer

Dilraba Dilmurat, Chinese actress

Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahranian king (died 1999)

Pierre Poilievre, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition

Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (died 1909)

Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 1945)

Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 2017)

Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (died 1999)

Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter (died 1994)

Penelope Wilton, English actress

Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (died 2001)

Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (died 1991)

Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2021)

Cris, Brazilian footballer

Philippe Quinault, French playwright and composer (died 1688)

George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician, Minister of Defence for India (died 2019)

Al Horford, Dominican basketball player

Vivian Woodward, English footballer and soldier (died 1954)

Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter and set designer (died 1964)

Karunanidhi, Indian screenwriter and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 2018)

Louis Hofmann, German actor

Wilfred Thesiger, British military officer, explorer, and writer (died 2003)

Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter

João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (died 1554)