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June 3rd, 2007EventUSS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details)
June 3rd, 2006EventThe union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro s formal declaration of independence.
June 3rd, 1998EventEschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
June 3rd, 1991EventMount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyushu killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
June 3rd, 1989EventThe government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
June 3rd, 1984EventThe Indian National Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
June 3rd, 1982EventThe Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
June 3rd, 1979EventA blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
June 3rd, 1973EventA Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
June 3rd, 1969EventMelbourne-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.

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