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Today in History: June 3

By Photos by Associated Press

June 2, 2021

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Amelia Earhart, the transatlantic flyer, is shown at the dinner in her honor given by the Paris Chapter of the National Aeronautique Association on June 3, 1932, Paris, France. At Miss Earhart's right is Norman Armour, Charge D'affaires at the American Embassy, and at her left is Norman Armour who presided.
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Haile Selassie I exiled Emperor of Abyssinia, Emperor of Ethiopia, arrived at Southampton, England on June 3, 1936. He was accompanied by his sons and daughters, and has conducted by train to London by Dr. Martin, unseen, the Abyssinian minister in London.
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Babe Ruth pauses beside the body of one time New York Yankee teammate, Lou Gehrig, at Christ Episcopal Church in the Bronx, New York, June 3, 1941.
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Two U.S. soldiers are on the alert as they take protection behind stone wall on Korean front near Choyang River in North Korea on June 3, 1951. Cpl. Richard G. Clark, foreground, of Westwood, New Jersey, wears helmet as Pfc. Joseph M. Nadorozny, of 973 east 13th St., Brooklyn, New York, puffs on cigarette.
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, right, shakes hands with President John F. Kennedy at the residence of the U.S. ambassodor in Vienna June 3, 1961.
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Television newswoman Barbara Walters addresses staff members of the NBC Today Show during a farewell party in the studios in New York City, June 3, 1975, after her final live appearance on the show. Walters will join ABC as co-host and anchorwoman of the rival networks' evening news program.
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In this June 3, 1981 photo, Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose dives headfirst for third base during a baseball game against the New York Mets in Philadelphia. Even Rose, the man who made the headfirst slide fashionable, says there's a time and place to be prudent. As in, no need to get your nose bashed in at home plate.
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A 1,000 pound steel beam, accompanied by a six foot pine tree and an American flag, scared 770 feet through the air to Òtop outÓ the tallest skyscraper in the West - the Bank of America's new world headquarters building in San Francisco, June 3, 1968. The 52-story building, center, dwarfs the 34-story Hartford Building, left, and the 43-story Wells Fargo Building at right. Scene looks east toward San Francisco Bay.
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A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 3, 1989. Pro-democracy protesters had been occupying Tiananmen Square for weeks.
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Gov. Bill Clinton, sitting with the band, turns out an impressive version of "Heartbreak Hotel" as Arsenio Hall gestures approvingly in the musical opening of "The Arsenio Hall Show" taping at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, June 3, 1992.
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In this Aug. 29, 2010 file photo, Dr. Jack Kevorkian arrives at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Kevorkian's lawyer and friend, Mayer Morganroth, says the assisted suicide advocate died Friday, June 3, 2011 at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83.
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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a primary night rally Tuesday, June 3, 2008, in St. Paul, Minn. Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night in a long-time-coming victory speech that minced no words about his opponent in the fall campaign, Republican John McCain.
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