June 3 ⇒Detail
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1615 - ▲The Battle of Tennoji: At the last battle of the Siege of Osaka, the Toyotomi finally fall.
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1940 - ◆The Luftwaffe bombs Paris (World War II).
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1940 - ◆The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
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1944 - ▲Outline Campaign Plan GRANITE II, US plan on the Battle of Saipan, is adopted.
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1989 - (death) Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Islamic religious leader and politician.
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1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Kyushu, Japan, killing 43 people.
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1998 - ◆Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
June 3 ⇒Detail
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June 30, 789 - General Kinokosami is defeated by the Emishi in northeastern Honshu.
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July 7, 1883 - The Rokumeikan, a Western-style guest house, is completed in Tokyo.
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July 15, 1904 - ▲(death) Anton Chekhov, Russian writer.
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July 15, 1904 - ▲The first Buddhist temple in US is established in Los Angeles.
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June 28, 1930 - (birth) Itamar Franco, President of Brazil.
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July 7, 1940 - ◆Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles).
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July 7, 1940 - ◆"Restriction Order of Using Precious Metal" is issued.
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July 25, 1998 - ◆Sixty-seven local residents suffer from arsenic poisoning in Japan.
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July 25, 1998 - ◆Two-thirds of Bangladesh is flood-hit and the army is on full alert.
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July 25, 1998 - ◆Devastating rains pound three central China provinces.
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July 25, 1998 - ◆USS Harry S. Truman is commissioned.
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July 25, 1998 - ◆Microsoft releases Japanese Version of "Microsoft 98".
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July 8, 2005 - ▲London bombings.
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July 16, 2007 - 2007 Chuetsu offshore earthquake.
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June 29, 2014 - ▲"The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" is renamed "The Islamic State".
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July 6, 2016 - The app "Pokémon Go" is released on smartphones.
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The Renso-no-Gi Ceremony for Empress Kojun.