June 3<\/p>\n
1098 \u2013 After a 5 month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize the city of Antioch, near the current city of Antakya, Turkey.<\/p>\n
1539 \u2013 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.<\/p>\n
1621 \u2013 The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland on the current east coast of the U.S.<\/p>\n
1781 \u2013 Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson at his home of Montecello, and the Virginia legislature at Charlottesville, of an impending raid by Lt Colonel Banastre Tarleton.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 At the of Battle of Philippi, Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 At the of Battle of Cold Harbor, Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1889 \u2013 The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
1916 \u2013 The National Defense Act is signed into law by President Wilson, creating the Army Reserves, the Reserve Officer Training Corps – ROTC,\u00a0 and Army Aviation, also expanding the Presidential powers to federalize the National Guard.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013Imperial Japan forces begin the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island, an elaborate feint to lure U.S. forces out from Pearl Harbor and keep them far enough away from the invasion of Midway island that they will be unable to respond until the Japanese Navy has set up a trap for the remaining U.S. carriers stationed in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
1965 \u2013 Aboard Gemini 4, astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White launch from Cape Kennedy on the first multi day space mission by NASA with White performing the first American spacewalk.<\/p>\n
1969 \u2013 Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne<\/em> collides with and cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans<\/em> in half, killing 74 sailors aboard the Evans<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing 5 deaths and $300 million in damage.<\/p>\n 1989 – Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dies.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 The trial of United States Army private 2017 \u2013\u00a0 8 people are murdered and 48 more wounded when 3 moslem islamists stage a vehicle crash and and knife attack at London Bridge that lasts over 8 minutes before the policer arrive and shoot all the terrorists dead 20 seconds after arriving, proving the point that when seconds<\/em> count, the police are only minutes<\/em> away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 3 1098 \u2013 After a 5 month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize the city of Antioch, near the current city of Antakya, Turkey. 1539 \u2013 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain. 1621 \u2013 The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland on the current east coast of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81729,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions\/81729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chelsea<\/del> Bradley<\/strong> Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.<\/p>\n