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.


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.


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


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.


1938 - The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."


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)