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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.