June 3

Birthdays:

1967 ~ Anderson Cooper, American journalist and son of Gloria Vanderbilt.

1946 ~ Penelope Wilton, British actress.

1936 ~ Larry McMurtry, American author.  He is best known for his western novel, Lonesome Dove.

1931 ~ Norman Brinker (d. June 9, 2009), American restaurateur who pioneered the salad bar.  He died 6 days after his 78^th birthday.

1931 ~ Raúl Castro, Cuban politician and brother of Fidel Castro.

1930 ~ Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (d. Sept 25, 1999), American author.  She is best known for her Arthurian novel, The Mists of Avalon.  She died of heart failure at age 69.

2017 ~ Chuck Barris (né Charles Hirsch Barris, d. Mar. 21, 2017), American game show producer who embraced bad taste.  He is best remembered for hosting The Gong Show, and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game.  He died of natural causes at age 87.

1929 ~ Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist.  He was the recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1926 ~ Allen Ginsberg (né Irwin Allen Ginsberg, d. Apr. 5, 1997), American beat-poet.  He died at age 70.

1925 ~ Tony Curtis (né Bernard Schwartz, d. Sept. 29, 2010), American actor.  He died at age 85.

1924 ~ Colleen Dewhurst (b. Aug. 22, 1991), Canadian actress.  She died of cancer at age 67.

1924 ~ Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1923 ~ Igor Shafarevich (d. Feb. 19, 2017), Russian mathematician.

1922 ~ Alain Resnais (d. March 1, 2014), the French filmmaker who challenged viewers.  He died at age 91.

1910 ~ Paulette Goddard (née Marion Levy, d. Apr. 23, 1990), American actress and model.  She died at age 79.

1906 ~ Josephine Baker (née Freda Josephine McDonald, d. Apr. 12, 1975), American dancer.  She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 68.

1906 ~ Sir Roy George Douglas Allen (d. Sept. 29, 1983), British economist and mathematician.  He died at age 77.

1904 ~ Charles R. Drew (d. Apr. 1, 1950), African-American physician and surgeon.  He was active in blood research and blood transfusions.  He was killed in a car accident at age 45.  A school in New Orleans was named after him.

1904 ~ Jan Peerce (né Joshua Pincus Perlemuth, d. Dec. 15, 1984), American tenor.  He died at age 80.

1900 ~ Adelaide Ames (d. June 26, 1932), American astronomer.  She died in a boating accident 3 weeks after her 32^nd birthday.

1900 ~ Leo Picard (d. Apr. 4, 1997), German-Israeli geologist.  He died at age 96.

1899 ~ Georg von Békésy (d. June 13, 1972), Hungarian biophysicist and recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died 10 days after his 73^rd birthday.

1873 ~ Otto Loewi (d. Dec. 25, 1961), German pharmacologist and recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but immigrated to the United States.  He died at age 88.

1865 ~ King George V of the United Kingdom (d. Jan. 20, 1936).  He was King from May 1910 until his death 26 years later.  He died at age 70.

1864 ~ Ransom Eli Olds (d. Aug. 26, 1950), American automobile pioneer.  He died at age 86.

1844 ~ Garret Hobart (d. Nov. 21, 1899), 24^th Vice President of the United States.  He served under President William McKinley, however, he died while in office of heart disease at age 55 and was replaced by Theodore Roosevelt.

1843 ~ King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. May 12, 1912).  He was King from January 1906 until his death 6 years later.  He died 20 days before his 69^th birthday.

1808 ~ Jefferson Davis (d. Dec. 6, 1889), President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.  He has previously served as the United States Secretary of War from March 1853 until March 1857, under Franklin Pierce. He died at age 81 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1659 ~ David Gregory (d. 1708), Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer.  The exact date of his birth is unknown, but it is believed to have been June 3, 1659.  He died at age 49.

1554 ~ Pietro de’Medici (d. Apr. 25, 1604), Italian nobleman.  He died at age 49.

Events that Changed the World:

2017 ~ A terrorist attack in London left 7 people dead and several others wounded.  A van struck several people on the London Bridge.  The suspects then left the vehicle and began stabbing others

2012 ~ The Thames Diamond Jubilee pageant celebrating Queen Elizabeth II years of reign consisted of 670 boats on the River Thames.

2006 ~ The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro came to an end when Montenegro formally declared its independence.  The two republics had united following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.

1989 ~ The Chinese government sent out troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

1982 ~ Shlomo Argov (1929 ~ 2003), the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, was shot in London.  He survived, but was permanently paralyzed.

1965 ~ American Astronaut Ed White (1930 ~ 1967) performed the first American spacewalk following the launch of Gemini 4.

1943 ~ The Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, California began when US Navy sailors and Marines clashed with Latino youths.

1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor (1894 ~ 1972), formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, married Wallis Simpson (1896 ~ 1986).

1889 ~The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was completed.  It ran 14 miles from a generator at Willamette Falls to downtown Portland, Oregon.

1888 ~ Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s (1863 ~ 1940) poem, Casey at the Bat, was first published.  It appeared in the San Francisco Examiner.

1621 ~ The Dutch West India Company received its charter for New Netherlands, which is now New York City.

1539 ~ Hernando de Soto (1500 ~ 1542) claimed what is now the State of Florida for Spain.

1140 ~ Peter Abelard (1079 ~ 1142) was found guilty of heresy.

Good-Byes:

2016 ~ Muhammad Ali (né Cassius Clay, b. Jan. 17, 1942), African-American professional boxer.  He died at age 74.

2015 ~ Horst Brandstätter (b. June 27, 1933), German toymaker who encouraged imaginative play.  His company began the production of the Playmobil toys that had been created by Hans Beck.  He died 24 days before his 82^nd birthday.

2015 ~ Bevo Francis (né Clarence Francis, b. Sept. 4, 1932), American basketball player who broke college records with his high-scoring.  He was 82 years old.

2013 ~ Frank Lautenberg (b. Jan. 23, 1924), American politician.  He served New Jersey as senator for nearly 30 years.  He died at age 89.

2011 ~ Jack Kevorkian (né Murad Kervorkian, b. May 26, 1928), American pathologist and activist for assisted suicide.  Ironically, he chose not to die by suicide.  He died 8 days after his 83^rd birthday.

2011 ~ James Arness (b. May 26, 1923), American rugged actor who played Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke.  His brother was Peter Graves.  Arness died 8 days after his 88^th birthday.

2009 ~ David Carradine (né John Arthur Carradine, b. Dec. 8, 1936), American actor, best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the TV show, Kung Fu.  He died at age 72.

2004 ~ Frances Shand Kydd (b. Jan. 20, 1936), British mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.  She died of Parkinson’s disease at age 68.

2001 ~ Anthony Quinn (né Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, b. April 21, 1915), Mexican-American actor.  He died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 86.

1991 ~ Lê Văn Thiêm (b. Mar. 29, 1918), Vietnamese mathematician.  He died at age 73.

1989 ~ Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (b. Sept. 24, 1902), Iranian Shi’ite leader during the Iranian revolution.  He was the 1^st Supreme Leader of Iran.  He died at age 86.

1977 ~ Roberto Rossellini (b. May 8, 1906), Italian movie director.  He was the father of actress Isabella Rossellini.  He died less than a month after his 71^st birthday.

1977 ~ Archibald Vivian Hill (b. Sept. 26, 1886), English physiologist and recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died at age 90.

1975 ~ Ozzie Nelson (né Oswald George Nelson, b. Mar. 20, 1906), American actor and bandleader.  He died at age 69.

1971 ~ Heinz Hopf (b. Nov. 19, 1894), German mathematician whose major field was topology.  He died at age 76.

1964 ~ Frans Eemil Sillanpää (b. Sept. 16, 1888), Finish writer and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He died at age 75.

1963 ~ Pope John XXIII (né Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, b. Nov. 25, 1881).  He was Pope from October 1958 until his death on this date 4.5 years later.  He was canonized as a Saint in April 2014.  He died at age 81.

1924 ~ Franz Kafka (b. July 3, 1883), Czech novelist.  He died of tuberculosis a month before his 41^st birthday.

1899 ~ Johann Strauss II (b. Oct. 25, 1825), Austrian composer.  He died at age 73.

1875 ~ Georges Bizet (b. Oct. 25, 1838), French composer, best known for his opera, Carmen.  He died of a heart attack at age 36.

1861 ~ Stephen A. Douglas (b. Apr. 23, 1813), United States Senator and Presidential candidate who ran against Abraham Lincoln.  He was born in Brandon, Vermont.  He died at age 48 of typhoid fever.

1780 ~ Thomas Hutchinson (b. Sept. 9, 1711), Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.  He died at age 68.

1657 ~ William Harvey (b. April 1, 1578), English physician.  He is best known for his study of blood and the circulatory system.  He died at age 79.