Once Upon A Time – June 3 – 1979 – Ixtoc I Rig In The Gulf Of Mexico Blows, Spilling 3 Million Barrels Of Oil In One Of Worst Oil Spills In History

1621 Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)

1929 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.

1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots

1979 Ixtoc I rig in the Gulf of Mexico blows, spilling 3 million barrels of oil in one of the worst oil spills in history

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1988 “Big” film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US

TODAY IN MUSIC

1976 Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” goes gold

TODAY IN SPORT

1899 W. G. Grace’s last day of Test cricket aged 50 years, 320 days

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1968 American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. She is later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to “reckless assault with intent to harm”, serving a 3 year sentence.

1851 1st baseball uniforms worn when the NY Knickerbockers wear a uniform of straw hats, white shirts and blue long trousers

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1353 Peter of Castile [Peter the Cruel] (18) marries Blanch of Bourbon (14) in Valladolid, Spain. Peter abandons her 2 days later for his secret wife Maria de Padilla.

1805 Lady Caroline Ponsonby (19) marries future Prime Minister William Lamb, Lord Melbourne (26) in London

1869 French “Carmen” composer Georges Bizet (30) weds Genevieve Halevy (20)