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Today in History: June 3
1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.

1864 Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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1938 The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."

1942 Japanese carrier-based planes strafe Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway Island.

1969 74 American sailors die when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.

1989 The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested.

2020 Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says in The Atlantic: "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us."

2021 NASA administrator Bill Nelson announces two new missions to study ‘Lost Habitable’ world of Venus in 2028 and 2030 [1]

2021 NASA launches 128 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals, to study effects of spaceflight, to the International Space Station aboard Space X's Falcon 9 rocket [


Born on June 3

1808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America.

1906 Josephine Baker, dancer and singer.


JOTD
A lonely lady decided she wanted to find a good husband to spend the rest of her life with so she placed an advert in the paper. It read:

“Looking for a husband, must not beat me, must not chase me around when I’m with my friends, must be good in bed”
The next day a gentleman called in reply to the advert and said he would be perfect for her. She thought he sounded nice and polite, so she invited him around for dinner.
That evening her date had arrived but was shocked when she opened the door to find a gentleman in a wheelchair with no arms or legs.
She said to him “I don’t understand you said you would be perfect for me”. He replied “well I have no arms, so I can’t beat you and I have no legs so I can’t chase you around town.
She stuttered and said “yes but I also wanted somebody who’s good in bed” ... he winked and said “I rang the doorbell didn’t I”.