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350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.¹
713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.²
1098 – After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.³
1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.⁴
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.⁵
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.⁶

1601–1900

1602 – An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay.⁷
1608 – Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.⁸
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending British raid.
1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Zexu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1844 – The last pair of great auks is killed.⁹
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin marching to invade the North for a second time, starting the Gettysburg campaign.¹⁰
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant sustain heavy casualties attacking Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia.¹¹
1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1892 – Liverpool F.C. is founded by John Houlding.¹²

1901–present

1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 – World War II: During the Battle of France, the Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.¹³
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.¹⁴
1950 – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
1963 – Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
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; resulting in 74 deaths.
1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $1145 million in 2024) worth of damage.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1992 – Australian Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo which led to the Native Title Act 1993 overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius.
1998 – After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2012 – A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.¹⁵
2012 – The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
2013 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.¹⁶
2019 – Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.¹⁷

Births

Pre-1600

1139 – Conon of Naso, Basilian abbot (died 1236)
1421 – Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian noble (died 1463)¹⁸
1454 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (died 1523)
1537 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (died 1554)¹⁹
1540 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (died 1590)
1554 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (died 1604)
1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (died 1649)²⁰

1601–1900

1635 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright and composer (died 1688)
1636 – John Hale, American minister (died 1700)
1659 – David Gregory, Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer (died 1708)
1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician, geologist, and botanist (died 1788)²¹
1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (died 1797)
1736 – Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer (died 1811)²²
1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (died 1820)²³
1808 – Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 - 1865 (died 1889)²⁴
1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans ²⁵
1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician, Governor of Senegal (died 1889)
1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1892)
1819 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)²⁶
1819 – Magdalene Thoresen, Danish writer (died 1903)²⁷
1832 – Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (died 1918)
1843 – Frederik VIII of Denmark (died 1912)
1844 – Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (died 1899)
1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (died 1909)
1852 – Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (died 1896)
1853 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (died 1942)²⁸
1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright (died 1905)
1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company (died 1950)
1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)²⁹
1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English-American director and manager (died 1952)
1873 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (died 1953)³⁰
1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 1945)
1879 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist and botanist (died 1940)
1879 – Vivian Woodward, English footballer and soldier (died 1954)
1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter and set designer (died 1964)
1890 – Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1954)
1897 – Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (died 1973)
1899 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
1900 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (died 1932)³¹
1900 – Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (died 1997)

1901–present

1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (died 1989)
1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (died 2001)
1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (died 1956)
1904 – Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (died 1950)
1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (died 1984)
1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (died 1946)
1906 – R. G. D. Allen, English economist, mathematician, and statistician (died 1983)
1906 – Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (died 1975)
1906 – Walter Robins, English cricketer and footballer (died 1968)
1907 – Paul Rotha, English director and producer (died 1984)
1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress and model (died 1990)
1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (died 1999)
1913 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author (died 2000)
1914 – Ignacio Ponseti, Spanish physician and orthopedist (died 2009)
1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (died 1969)
1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor and producer (died 1996)
1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American burlesque dancer (died 1999)
1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian pentathlete and coach (died 2016)
1922 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 2017)
1924 – Karunanidhi, Indian screenwriter and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 2018)
1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (died 1991)
1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (died 1997)³²
1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate³³
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)³⁴
1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)³⁵
1926 – Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2015)
1927 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist and composer (died 2007)
1928 – Donald Judd, American sculptor and painter (died 1994)
1928 – John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer (died 2020)
1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (died 2017)
1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author and poet (died 1999)
1930 – George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician, Minister of Defence for India (died 2019)
1930 – Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe's (died 2020)³⁶
1931 – Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress (died 2021)
1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban commander and politician, 18th President of Cuba
1931 – John Norman, American philosopher and author
1931 – Lindy Remigino, American runner and coach (died 2018)
1931 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahranian king (died 1999)
1936 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2021)
1936 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2017)
1937 – Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French racing driver (died 2021)
1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1999)
1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach
1945 – Hale Irwin, American golfer and architect
1945 – Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist, and businessman, founded the Rajah Broadcasting Network
1945 – Bill Paterson, Scottish actor
1946 – Michael Clarke, American drummer (died 1993)
1946 – Penelope Wilton, English actress
1948 – Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
1950 – Frédéric François, Belgian singer-songwriter
1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer (died 2015)
1950 – Larry Probst, American businessman
1950 – Suzi Quatro, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist³⁷
1951 – Jill Biden, American educator, First Lady of the United States ³⁸
1951 – Deniece Williams, American singer-songwriter³⁹
1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter⁴⁰
1955 - Louis H. Schiff, retired American judge, law school professor.⁴¹
1956 – George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager
1956 – Danny Wilde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist⁴²
1959 – Sam Mills, American football player (died 2005)⁴³
1960 – Jeff Colyer, American politician, 47th Governor of Kansas ⁴⁴
1960 – Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge (died 2016)⁴⁵
1960 – Tracy Grimshaw, Australian television host⁴⁶
1960 – Carl Rackemann, Australian cricketer and sportscaster⁴⁷
1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons
1961 – Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
1961 – Ed Wynne, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1962 – Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author
1964 – Kerry King, American guitarist and songwriter
1964 – James Purefoy, English actor
1965 – Mike Gordon, American bassist and vocalist⁴⁸
1965 – Hans Kroes, Dutch swimmer
1965 – Michael Moore, British accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1965 – Tina Kaidanow, American diplomat and government official (died 2024)⁴⁹
1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer, coach, and sportscaster⁵⁰
1967 – Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author⁵¹
1967 – Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer⁵²
1967 – Newton, English singer-songwriter⁵³
1969 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
1969 – Dean Pay, Australian rugby league player and coach
1969 – Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese singer and actor⁵⁴
1972 – Julie Gayet, French actress
1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Serhiy Rebrov, Ukrainian international footballer and manager⁵⁵
1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
1977 – Cris, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player⁵⁶
1978 – Lyfe Jennings, American singer-songwriter and producer
1979 – Christian Malcolm, Welsh sprinter
1979 – Pierre Poilievre, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition ⁵⁷
1980 – Amauri, Italian international footballer
1981 – Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player⁵⁸
1981 – Sam Murphy, Australian rugby league player⁵⁹
1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
1982 – Manfred Mölgg, Italian skier
1983 – Pasquale Foggia, Italian footballer
1985 – Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1985 – Łukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
1986 – Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner
1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
1986 – Tomáš Verner, Czech ice skater
1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer⁶⁰
1989 – Imogen Poots, English actress and model⁶¹
1991 – Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (died 2017)
1992 – Dilraba Dilmurat, Chinese actress⁶²
1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
1992 - Jade Cargill, American professional wrestler⁶³
1993 – Otto Porter Jr., American basketball player⁶⁴
1994 – Harrison Bader, American baseball player⁶⁵
1997 – Louis Hofmann, German actor⁶⁶
1998 – Sam Curran, English cricketer⁶⁷
1999 – Cameron Green, Australian cricketer⁶⁸
2000 – Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter⁶⁹
2001 – Jalen Suggs, American basketball player⁷⁰
2002 – Tyrell Sloan, Australian rugby league player⁷¹
2005 – Désiré Doué, French footballer⁷²

Deaths

Pre-1600

628 – Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader⁷³
734 – Simeon of the Olives, Syriac bishop of Harran ⁷⁴ ⁷⁵
800 – Staurakios, Byzantine general⁷⁶
1052 – Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno ⁷⁷
1397 – William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (born 1328)
1411 – Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (born 1371)
1453 – Loukas Notaras, last megas doux of the Byzantine Empire
1511 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa ⁷⁸
1548 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish-Mexican archbishop (born 1468)
1553 – Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker and architect (born 1485)
1594 – John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (born 1521)

1601–1900

1615 – Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)
1640 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1584)
1649 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (born 1590)
1657 – William Harvey, English physician and academic (born 1578)⁷⁹
1659 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh minister and poet (born 1619)
1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1711)
1826 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (born 1766)
1858 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (born 1834)
1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (born 1813)
1865 – Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (born 1838)
1875 – Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (born 1838)
1877 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (born 1800)
1882 – Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (born 1839)
1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (born 1812)
1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (born 1825)
1900 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (born 1862)

1901–present

1902 – Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)
1906 – John Maxwell, American golfer (born 1871)
1921 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (born 1879)
1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (born 1883)⁸⁰
1928 – Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1864)
1933 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (born 1852)
1938 – John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower and tug of war competitor (born 1873)
1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)
1963 – Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (born 1893)
1963 – Pope John XXIII (born 1881)
1963 – Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (born 1902)⁸¹
1963 – Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (born 1874)⁸²
1964 – Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (born 1887)
1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
1969 – George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (born 1883)
1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (born 1877)
1971 – Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)
1973 – Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (born 1895)
1974 – Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1949)⁸³
1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (born 1906)
1975 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1901)⁸⁴
1977 – Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)
1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (born 1904)
1986 – Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (born 1904)
1987 – Will Sampson, American actor and painter (born 1933)
1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (born 1900)
1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)
1991 – Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league player (born 1924)
1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1942)
1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (born 1946)
1991 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (born 1918)
1992 – Robert Morley, English actor and screenwriter (born 1908)
1993 – Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (born 1918)
1994 – Puig Aubert, German-French rugby player and coach (born 1925)
1997 – Dennis James, American actor and game show host (born 1917)
2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (born 1915)
2002 – Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and manager (born 1913)
2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (born 1907)
2005 – Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1945)
2006 – Clinton Jones, American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist (born 1916)⁸⁵
2009 – David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)
2009 – Koko Taylor, American singer (born 1928)
2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)⁸⁶
2011 – James Arness, American actor and producer (born 1923)⁸⁷
2011 – Andrew Gold, American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger (born 1951)⁸⁸
2011 – Bhajan Lal, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Haryana (born 1930)
2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and activist (born 1928)⁸⁹
2011 – Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (born 1925)
2012 – Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (born 1942)
2012 – Roy Salvadori, English racing driver and manager (born 1922)⁹⁰
2012 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)⁹¹
2013 – Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)
2013 – Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)
2013 – Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (born 1924)
2014 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (born 1942)
2014 – Gopinath Munde, Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1949)
2015 – Avi Beker, Israeli political scientist and academic (born 1951)⁹²
2016 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)⁹³
2021 – F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (born 1933)⁹⁴
2024 – Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)⁹⁵
2024 – William Russell, English actor (born 1924)⁹⁶

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:
- Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances:
  - Martyrs' Day (Uganda)
- Clotilde
- Kevin of Glendalough
- Ovidius
- Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox)
- June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, and Tennessee, United States)
Economist day (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Mabo Day (Australia)
Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)
World Bicycle Day ⁹⁷

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