On This Day:
Tuesday June 3, 2014 This is the 154th day of the year, with 211 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) was formed in 1948 by Bill France, Sr. From its modest beginnings, NASCAR racing has become one of the most popular spectator sports in the world, and in 1979, the Daytona 500 became the first NASCAR race to be nationally televised from start to finish. A 500-mile NASCAR race is physically demanding, with some drivers losing up to ten pounds during the race. Richard Petty has the most NASCAR career victories, with 200 wins.
Holidays Feast day of Genesius of Clermont, St. Kevin, St. Charles Lwanga, St. Isaac of Cordova, St. Morand, St. Cecilius, St. Clothilde, St. Joseph Mkasa, St. Lucillian and his Companions, Saints Liphardus and Urbicius, and Saints Pergentinus and Laurentinus.
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina: Jefferson Davis's Birthday.
Kentucky, Louisiana: Confederate Memorial Day.
Ireland: Bank Holiday.
Events 1162 - Thomas à Becket was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now New York).
1800 - John Adams, the 2nd president of the United States of America, became the first president to reside in Washington, D.C., when he took up residence at Union Tavern in Georgetown.
1835 - P.T. Barnum's circus started its first tour of the United States.
1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.
1880 - Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly-invented "photophone."
1916 - The National Defense Act was authorized, establishing the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).
1937 - The Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France.
1959 - The first class of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, graduated.
1965 - Astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
1968 - Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio by Valerie Solanas, an actress and militant feminist.
1972 - Sally Jan Priesand was ordained the first woman rabbi in the U.S.
1989 - The Chinese government authorized its soldiers and tanks to reclaim Beijing's Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of protests for democratic reforms, killing 2000 protesters.
2006 - Montenegro declared independence from the state union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Births 1808 - Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy.
1811 - Henry James, American philosophical theologian.
1853 - William Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist.
1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, American inventor and automobile manufacturer.
1906 - Josephine Baker, American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer.
1925 - Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), American actor.
1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet, writer.
1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter.
Deaths 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer.
1924 - Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist.
1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian political and religious leader.
1992 - Robert Morley, English actor.
2001 - Anthony Quinn (born Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn), Mexican-born actor.
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