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,  Josephine Baker 1906 - Dancer, singer and Actress, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) 1925 - Actor ("Sweet Smell of Success," "Some Like it Hot," father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis


Allen Ginsberg 1926 - Writer, poet, Chuck Barris 1929 - Producer, creater and game show host ("The Gong Show"), Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author ("Lonesome Dove")


1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.


1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.


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.


1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.


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


1959 - The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.


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)