Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 3

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 * 1602 – Anglo-Spanish War: The English navy defeated a Spanish–Portuguese fleet off Sesimbra, Portugal, and captured a carrack.
 * 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
 * 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established.
 * 1844 – The last known pair of great auks (one pictured), the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed on Eldey, Iceland.
 * 1917 – A socialist convention in Leeds, United Kingdom, called for and end to the First World War and the establishment of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates across the country.
 * 1921 – At his trial for the assassination of Talaat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted after arguing: "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer."
 * 1940 – Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
 * 1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
 * 1963 – Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese soldiers attacked Buddhist protesters in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
 * 1968 – American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, The Factory.
 * 1973 – At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
 * 1979 – Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
 * Born/died this day: | Staurakios |d|800| Sejanus |b|20 BC| Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria |d|1395| Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah |d|1511| Thomas Hutchinson |d|1780| Martha Jane Knowlton Coray |b|1821| Charles Lecocq |b|1832|  Georges Bizet |d|1875| Flora MacDonald |b|1926| Jill Biden |b|1951| Susannah Constantine |b|1962