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On This Day In History for June 3, 2015
This is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining in 2015.
- It was on this date in 1539 that Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
- June 3, 1621, The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
- That same date in 1888, The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed on this date in 1889.
- Also today in 1889, The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
- The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk on this date in 1965.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer David Gregory born on this date in 1659
- Also born on this date in 1864 Ransom E. Olds, the American businessman who founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company.
- Adelaide Ames, American astronomer was born June 3, 1900.
- This is also the 86th birthday of Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer who created The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game
- American computer scientist and engineer David L. Mills turns 77 today.
- Susan Landau the American mathematician and engineer is 61.
- and finally, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons Lawrence Lessig is 54.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 3, 2015
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