Today In History

TODAY IN HISTORY

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June 3rd -155th Day of the Year

1098
Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.

1539
Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.

1861
Union troops defeat Confederate forces at Philippi, in western Virginia

1864
Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.

1888
The classic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat," written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

1916
President Woodrow Wilson signs into law the National Defense Act, which expanded the size and scope of the National Guard—the network of states’ militias that had been developing steadily since colonial times—and guaranteed its status as the nation’s permanent reserve force.

1918
The Finnish Parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany.

1923
In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote.

1928
Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin dies as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.

1937
In France, the duke of Windsor—formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland—marries Wallis Warfield, a divorced American socialite for whom he abdicated the British throne in December 1936.

1938
The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."

1940
The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs.

1942
Japanese carrier-based planes strafe Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway Island.

1952
A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea is put down by American troops.

1965
Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.

1969
74 American sailors die when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.

1974
Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice.

1989
The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested.

2010
Joran van der Sloot, a longtime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is arrested in Chile in connection with the slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, in Lima, Peru.

2017
During one horrific 8-minute period, eight people were killed as a band of terrorists drove a van through a pedestrian walkway on the London Bridge. The men then exited, armed with pink steak knives, and proceeded to slash and stab people in a nearby market.

The Shelby County Historical Society would like to thank the following area businesses for their support:
KNOD, Harlan Newspaper, Hy-Vee, Milk & Honey, Farm Table Delivery, Nelson Farm Supply, Shelby County Physical Therapy, Shelby County State Bank, State Farm-EJ Leinen, Town & Country Credit Union, Ouren Real Estate, and ThinkSpace IT.