Daily Calendar for Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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James Hutton (Scottish geologist considered the “Father of Modern Geology”; born in Edinburgh, U.K.) – 1726
Jefferson Davis (president of the Confederacy) – 1808
Ransom Eli Olds (automobile manufacturer) – 1864
Roland Hayes (tenor) – 1887
Tony Curtis (actor) – 1925
Allen Ginsburg (poet) – 1926
Francis "Frank" Gouin (plant physiologist) – 1938
Anderson Cooper (television journalist) – 1967
Lalaine Vergara-Paras (actress) – 1987

Johann Strauss, the Younger (composer) – 1899
The Marquess of Lansdowne (Canadian Governor General 1883-1888) – 1927
Pope John XXIII – 1963
Ozzie Nelson (actor) – 1975
Lew Wasserman (old time movie mogul) – 2002
David Carradine (actor) – 2009
Rue McClanahan (actress) – 2010
Dr. Jack Kevorkian (pathologist known as Dr. Death” due to his role in assisting the suicides of terminally ill people”) – 2011
Muhammad Ali (boxer) – 2016

John Adams became the first U.S. president to live in Washington, D.C.. – 1800
The poem “Casey at the Bat” was published in the San Francisco Examiner – 1888
Ernest Poole became the first to win a Pulitzer Prize in the category of novels (now known as fiction) – 1918
The New York Times won its first Pulitzer Prize – 1918
Baseball player Lou Gehrig hit 4 home runs in 1 game – 1932
Astronaut Edward H. White II was the first American to perform a spacewalk” when he stepped outside of his spacecraft Gemini 4” – 1965
The Royal Canadian Mint announced that nickel would replace silver in coins – 1968
Sally Jane Priesand became the first American female to be ordained as a rabbi – 1972
Frances Bay, James Cameron, k.d. lang, The Kids in the Hall, Steve Nash, and Daria Werbowy were announced as being inducted into the Canada Walk of Fame – 2008

Early hurricane wreaked havoc along the Atlantic coast from June 3 through 5. – 1825
Seattle received 1.42 inches of rain within 24 hours, a June record – 1905
Flood caused major devastation in Pueblo, Colorado – 1921
Golfball-size hail fell in northeast Colorado – 2002