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| June 3rd, 2007 | Event | USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. (details) |
| June 3rd, 2006 | Event | The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro s formal declaration of independence. |
| June 3rd, 1998 | Event | Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. |
| June 3rd, 1991 | Event | Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyushu killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. |
| June 3rd, 1989 | Event | The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. |
| June 3rd, 1984 | Event | The Indian National Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar. |
| June 3rd, 1982 | Event | The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. |
| June 3rd, 1979 | Event | A 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, 1973 | Event | A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. |
| June 3rd, 1969 | Event | 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. |
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