History for June 3

History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Jefferson Davis 1808/1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War , Leo Gorcey 1916/1917 - Stage and movie actor, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) 1925 - Actor ("Sweet Smell of Success," "Some Like it Hot," father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis 


Boots Randolph 1927 - Musician, his saxophone hit became Benny Hill's signature tune, Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author ("Lonesome Dove"), Rafael Nadal 1986 - Tennis player 



1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain. 


1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. 


1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution. 


1856 - Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine. 


1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published. 



1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson. 


1965 - Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule. 


1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. 


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.(Illinois, Florida)