History for June 3

History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com

Jefferson Davis 1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War

• 1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.
• 1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.
• 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
• 1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
• 1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.
• 1938 - The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."
• 1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.