HMAS Melbourne Collision

The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history, June 3rd. On this day in history, June 3, 1969, the HMAS Melbourne aircraft carrier collided with U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Frank E. Evans off South Vietnam. Most of the 272 men on board the USS Frank E. Evans were asleep when the collision occurred at 3:15am. A short time before, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne had signaled the smaller American destroyer to take up position behind the carrier. But despite having well-rehearsed procedures for such a manoeuvre, the Frank E. Evans moved across the path of the carrier.

BORN JUNE 3RD:
June 3, 1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
June 3, 1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
June 3, 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
June 3, 1636 – John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)
June 3, 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
June 3, 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
June 3, 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
June 3, 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
June 3, 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
June 3, 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
June 3, 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
June 3, 1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
June 3, 1840 – Michael O’Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
June 3, 1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
June 3, 1844 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
June 3, 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
June 3, 1853 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
June 3, 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
June 3, 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)
June 3, 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
June 3, 1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
June 3, 1873 – Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)
June 3, 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
June 3, 1878 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
June 3, 1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
June 3, 1879 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
June 3, 1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
June 3, 1888 – Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
June 3, 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
June 3, 1900 – Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
June 3, 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
June 3, 1901 – Zhang Xueliang {d. 2001}
June 3, 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
June 3, 1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
June 3, 1904 – Charles Drew,American surgeon,(d. 1950)
June 3, 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)
June 3, 1906 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
June 3, 1907 – Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
June 3, 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
June 3, 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
June 3, 1913 – Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
June 3, 1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
June 3, 1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
June 3, 1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American stripper (d. 1999)
June 3, 1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
June 3, 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director
June 3, 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
June 3, 1924 – M. Karunanidhi, Indian Politician
June 3, 1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
June 3, 1924 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
June 3, 1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
June 3, 1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
June 3, 1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
June 3, 1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
June 3, 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
June 3, 1927 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)
June 3, 1929 – Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
June 3, 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host
June 3, 1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
June 3, 1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
June 3, 1930 – Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
June 3, 1931 – Françoise Arnoul, French actress
June 3, 1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
June 3, 1931 – John Norman, American author
June 3, 1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete
June 3, 1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
June 3, 1934 – Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
June 3, 1935 – Irma P. Hall, American actress
June 3, 1936 – Jim Gentile, baseball player
June 3, 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American author
June 3, 1937 – Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
June 3, 1937 – Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
June 3, 1938 – David L. Mills, American computer engineer
June 3, 1939 – Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
June 3, 1939 – Ian Hunter, English musician
June 3, 1939 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist
June 3, 1940 – Connie Saylor, American racecar driver (d. 1993)
June 3, 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
June 3, 1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
June 3, 1944 – Edith McGuire, American runner
June 3, 1944 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
June 3, 1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
June 3, 1945 – Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
June 3, 1945 – Bill Paterson, British actor
June 3, 1946 – Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993)
June 3, 1946 – Eddie Holman, American singer
June 3, 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor
June 3, 1946 – Penelope Wilton, British actress
June 3, 1947 – Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T.Rex) (d. 2003)
June 3, 1947 – Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
June 3, 1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
June 3, 1949 – Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer
June 3, 1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
June 3, 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
June 3, 1950 – Christos Verelis, Greek politician
June 3, 1950 – Deniece Williams, American singer
June 3, 1952 – Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
June 3, 1952 – David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
June 3, 1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter
June 3, 1954 – Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
June 3, 1956 – Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
June 3, 1956 – George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
June 3, 1956 – Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)
June 3, 1957 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
June 3, 1958 – Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
June 3, 1959 – John Carlson, American talk radio host
June 3, 1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
June 3, 1961 – Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
June 3, 1962 – Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
June 3, 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
June 3, 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
June 3, 1964 – Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
June 3, 1964 – James Purefoy, British actor
June 3, 1965 – Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)
June 3, 1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
June 3, 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
June 3, 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
June 3, 1967 – Jason Jones, Canadian actor
June 3, 1968 – Jamie O’Neal, American singer
June 3, 1968 – Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
June 3, 1969 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
June 3, 1969 – Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
June 3, 1970 – Esther Hart, Dutch singer
June 3, 1970 – Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
June 3, 1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
June 3, 1970 – Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
June 3, 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
June 3, 1971 – John Hodgman, American author and humorist
June 3, 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
June 3, 1974 – Arianne Zucker, American actress
June 3, 1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
June 3, 1976 – Nikos Hatzis, Greek basketball player
June 3, 1976 – Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
June 3, 1976 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
June 3, 1976 – Yuri Ruley, American drummer
June 3, 1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer
June 3, 1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
June 3, 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player
June 3, 1978 – Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and songwriter
June 3, 1980 – Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
June 3, 1980 – Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
June 3, 1981 – Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player
June 3, 1981 – Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer
June 3, 1981 – Timur Tekkal, German rugby player
June 3, 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
June 3, 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer
June 3, 1983 – Janine Habeck, German model
June 3, 1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model
June 3, 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
June 3, 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
June 3, 1986 – Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
June 3, 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
June 3, 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
June 3, 1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
June 3, 1987 – Lalaine, American actress
June 3, 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
June 3, 1987 – Michelle Keegan, British actress
June 3, 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
June 3, 1989 – Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer
June 3, 2006 – Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

DIED JUNE 3RD:
June 3, 800 – Staurakios, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
June 3, 1395 – Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
June 3, 1397 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
June 3, 1411 – Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
June 3, 1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
June 3, 1594 – John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
June 3, 1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
June 3, 1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
June 3, 1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
June 3, 1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
June 3, 1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
June 3, 1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
June 3, 1826 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
June 3, 1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
June 3, 1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
June 3, 1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
June 3, 1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
June 3, 1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
June 3, 1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
June 3, 1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
June 3, 1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
June 3, 1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
June 3, 1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
June 3, 1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)
June 3, 1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (b. 1875)
June 3, 1955 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
June 3, 1963 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
June 3, 1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
June 3, 1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
June 3, 1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
June 3, 1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
June 3, 1973 – Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
June 3, 1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
June 3, 1975 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
June 3, 1977 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
June 3, 1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
June 3, 1983 – Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Pakistani actor
June 3, 1986 – Anna Neagle, British actress (b. 1904)
June 3, 1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
June 3, 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi’ite leader (b. 1900)
June 3, 1989 – John McCauley, hockey official (b. 1945)
June 3, 1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
June 3, 1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
June 3, 1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
June 3, 1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
June 3, 1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
June 3, 1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
June 3, 1994 – Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
June 3, 1997 – Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
June 3, 1998 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
June 3, 2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
June 3, 2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
June 3, 2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
June 3, 2004 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
June 3, 2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
June 3, 2006 – Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley’s Comets (b. 1932)
June 3, 2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
June 3, 2009 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician (b. 1928)
June 3, 2009 – Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
June 3, 2010 – John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
June 3, 2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)

JUNE 3RD MEMORABLE EVENTS:
June 3, 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
June 3, 1098 – First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
June 3, 1140 – French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
June 3, 1326 – Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
June 3, 1539 – DeSoto claims Florida for Spain.
June 3, 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
June 3, 1620 – Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
June 3, 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
June 3, 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
June 3, 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
June 3, 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
June 3, 1800 – U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern because the White House was not yet completed).
June 3, 1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
June 3, 1850 – The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This is the date on which it is first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri, as the “City of Kansas”.
June 3, 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
June 3, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
June 3, 1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
June 3, 1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
June 3, 1888 – The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
June 3, 1889 – The coast to coast Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
June 3, 1889 – 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.
June 3, 1916 – The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
June 3, 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
June 3, 1932 – Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
June 3, 1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
June 3, 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
June 3, 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
June 3, 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
June 3, 1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
June 3, 1950 – First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna is summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal
June 3, 1956 – British Railways renames ‘Third Class’ passenger facilities as ‘Second Class’ (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
June 3, 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.
June 3, 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
June 3, 1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
June 3, 1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
June 3, 1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
June 3, 1969 – Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
June 3, 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
June 3, 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill ever recorded
June 3, 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm.
June 3, 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
June 3, 1984 – The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
June 3, 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
June 3, 1989 – SkyDome is officially opened in Toronto, Ontario
June 3, 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
June 3, 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
June 3, 1998 – Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
June 3, 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.
June 3, 2007 – USS Carter Hall engages pirates after they board the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.

MEMORABLE QUOTE:
“These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission… to boldly go where no man has gone before.” (Gene Roddenberry, 1967)