This Day In History

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June 3rd

1851
The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. They wore straw hats, white shirts and blue trousers.

1861
Stephen Douglas, U.S. politician, died.

1888
The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

1916
The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.

1965
Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.

1968
Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.

1969
The final episode of "Star Trek" aired on NBC.

1979
The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.

1989
Chinese army troops head to Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.

1989
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini died.

1992
Bill Clinton, while campaigning for U.S. President, played saxophone on the "Arsenio Hall Show".

2003
Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.

Birthdays
84 Tony Curtis Actor
80 Chuck Barris Game show host ("The Gong Show")
74 Irma P. Hall Actress
70 Ian Hunter Rock musician (Mott the Hoople)
68 Raúl Castro Cuban statesman
66 Billy Cunningham Basketball Hall of Famer
66 Emmitt Thomas Football Hall of Famer
51 Scott Valentine Actor
45 Kerry King Rock musician (Slayer)
44 Mike Gordon Rock musician (Phish)
42 Anderson Cooper Broadcast journalist
34 Jose Molina Baseball player (New York Yankees)
23 Rafael Nadal Tennis player
22 Lalaine Actress ("Lizzie McGuire")
?? Harpo Cigar Asylum Inmate

81 Jefferson Davis 6/3/1808 - 12/6/1889 American; president of the Confederate States of America (1861-5)
86 Ransom Eli Olds 6/3/1864 - 8/26/1950 American inventor and automobile manufacturer
69 Josephine Baker 6/3/1906 - 4/12/1975 American-born French dancer and singer