June 03
1861
Stephen Douglas, U.S. politician, died.
1937
The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) married Wallis Simpson.
1965
Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
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.
Birthdays
Allen Ginsberg
1926–1997, American poet, born in Paterson, N.J., graduated Columbia, 1949.
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy (1808)
Henry James
philosophical theologian (1811)
Raoul Dufy
painter (1877)
Josephine Baker
dancer and singer (1906)
Tony Curtis
actor (1925)
Curtis Mayfield
singer-songwriter (1942)