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Friday, June 3, 2016

Today in History

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.
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.
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 died 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 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.

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