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This Day In History: June 3rd

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

1539: Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.

1621: The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).

1784: The United States Congress created the United States Army.

1800: John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.

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

1851: The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.

1856: Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine.

1864: About 7,000 Union troops were killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia during the U.S. Civil War.

1871: Jesse James, then 24, and his gang robbed the Obocock bank in Corydon, Iowa. They stole $15,000.

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

1918: The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.

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

1928: Manchurian warlord Chian Tso-Lin died as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.

1932: Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs.

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."

1940: German bombed Paris, killing 254 people. Most of the people killed were civilians and school children.

1952: A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.

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

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

1968: Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio by Valerie Solanas.

1970: Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.

1974: Charles Colson, an aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, pled guilty to obstruction of justice.

1983: Gordon Kahl was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, AR. Kahl was wanted for the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota.

1985: After five years, the characters of Nancy and Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV's "As the World Turns."

1989: Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died.

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

1991: Mount Unzen in southern Japan erupted killing 40 people.

1998: In Germany, a train veered off its tracks and hit a road bridge. 101 people were killed and 80 were injured.

1999: Slobodan Milosevic's government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.

1999: Dennis Muren received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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.

2003: Toys "R" Us, Inc. announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement with Albertson to become the exclusive toy provider for all of all of Albertson's food and drug stores.

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