June 3 1904
The German Foreign Minister, Friedrich von Holstine, denounced the French plan to partition Morocco.
June 3 1911
Sultan Abd al-Hafid, agreed to French demands to create a French protectorate in Morocco.
June 3 1935
Two Italian outposts were attacked by Haile Selassie's troops in Ethiopia, 30 Ethiopian soldiers were killed.
June 3 1940: Germans bomb ParisThe German Foreign Minister, Friedrich von Holstine, denounced the French plan to partition Morocco.
June 3 1911
Sultan Abd al-Hafid, agreed to French demands to create a French protectorate in Morocco.
June 3 1935
Two Italian outposts were attacked by Haile Selassie's troops in Ethiopia, 30 Ethiopian soldiers were killed.
On this day in 1940, the German air force bombed Paris, killing 254 people, most of them civilians.
Determined to wreck France’s economy and military, reduce its population, and in short, cripple its morale as well as its ability to rally support for other occupied nations, the Germans bombed the French capital without regard to the fact that most of the victims were civilians, including schoolchildren. The bombing succeeded in provoking just the right amount of terror; France’s minister of the interior could only keep government officials from fleeing Paris by threatening them with severe penalties.
Despite the fact that the British Expeditionary Force was on the verge of completing its evacuation at Dunkirk, and that France was on the verge of collapse to the German invaders, the British War Cabinet was informed that Norway’s king, Haakon, had expressed complete confidence that the Allies would win in the end. The king, having made his prediction, then fled Norway for England, his own country now under German occupation.
June 3 1946
A bill to curtail land ownership and voting rights of Asians in South Africa was adopted by the government.
June 3 1954
South Africa's richest gold deposit was discovered near the Farm of Erfdeel in the Orange Free State.
June 3 1954
Archaeologist Muhannam Zakaria Goneim and his team finally broke through into the sarcophagus chamber of Sakhemkhet's step pyramid.
June 3 1955
Tunisia achieved (limited) self-government with the return of Habib Bourguiba. Muhammad al-Amin ibn Muhammad, the Pacha Bey, remained the head of state for two more years whilst Bourguiba consolidates his power base.
June 3 1956: Rock and roll was banned in Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz, California, a favorite early haunt of author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, was an established capital of the West Coast counterculture scene by the mid-1960s. Yet just 10 years earlier, the balance of power in this crunchy beach town 70 miles south of San Francisco tilted heavily toward the older side of the generation gap. In the early months of the rock-and-roll revolution, in fact, at a time when adult authorities around the country were struggling to come to terms with a booming population of teenagers with vastly different musical tastes and attitudes, Santa Cruz captured national attention for its response to the crisis. On June 3, 1956, city authorities announced a total ban on rock and roll at public gatherings, calling the music “Detrimental to both the health and morals of our youth and community.”
It was a dance party the previous evening that led to this reaction on the part of Santa Cruz authorities. Some 200 teenagers had packed the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on a Saturday night to dance to the music of Chuck Higgins and his Orchestra, a Los Angeles group with a regional hit record called “Pachuko Hop.” Santa Cruz police entered the auditorium just past midnight to check on the event, and what they found, according to Lieutenant Richard Overton, was a crowd “engaged in suggestive, stimulating and tantalizing motions induced by the provocative rhythms of an all-negro band.” But what might sound like a pretty great dance party to some did not to Lt. Overton, who immediately shut the dance down and sent the disappointed teenagers home early
It may seem obvious now that Santa Cruz’s ban on “Rock-and-roll and other forms of frenzied music” was doomed to fail, but it was hardly the only such attempt. Just two weeks later in its June 18, 1956 issue, Time magazine reported on similar bans recently enacted in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and in San Antonio, Texas, where the city council’s fear of “undesirable elements” echoed the not-so-thinly-veiled concerns of Santa Cruz authorities over the racially integrated nature of the event that prompted the rock-and-roll ban issued on this day in 1956
June 3 1965: An American walked in space
One hundred and 20 miles above the earth, Major Edward H. White II opened the hatch of the Gemini 4 and stepped out of the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling his movements with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun, White remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes. As a space walker, White had been preceded by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, who on March 18, 1965, was the first man ever to walk in space.
June 3 1946
A bill to curtail land ownership and voting rights of Asians in South Africa was adopted by the government.
June 3 1954
South Africa's richest gold deposit was discovered near the Farm of Erfdeel in the Orange Free State.
June 3 1954
Archaeologist Muhannam Zakaria Goneim and his team finally broke through into the sarcophagus chamber of Sakhemkhet's step pyramid.
June 3 1955
Tunisia achieved (limited) self-government with the return of Habib Bourguiba. Muhammad al-Amin ibn Muhammad, the Pacha Bey, remained the head of state for two more years whilst Bourguiba consolidates his power base.
June 3 1956: Rock and roll was banned in Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz, California, a favorite early haunt of author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, was an established capital of the West Coast counterculture scene by the mid-1960s. Yet just 10 years earlier, the balance of power in this crunchy beach town 70 miles south of San Francisco tilted heavily toward the older side of the generation gap. In the early months of the rock-and-roll revolution, in fact, at a time when adult authorities around the country were struggling to come to terms with a booming population of teenagers with vastly different musical tastes and attitudes, Santa Cruz captured national attention for its response to the crisis. On June 3, 1956, city authorities announced a total ban on rock and roll at public gatherings, calling the music “Detrimental to both the health and morals of our youth and community.”
It was a dance party the previous evening that led to this reaction on the part of Santa Cruz authorities. Some 200 teenagers had packed the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on a Saturday night to dance to the music of Chuck Higgins and his Orchestra, a Los Angeles group with a regional hit record called “Pachuko Hop.” Santa Cruz police entered the auditorium just past midnight to check on the event, and what they found, according to Lieutenant Richard Overton, was a crowd “engaged in suggestive, stimulating and tantalizing motions induced by the provocative rhythms of an all-negro band.” But what might sound like a pretty great dance party to some did not to Lt. Overton, who immediately shut the dance down and sent the disappointed teenagers home early
It may seem obvious now that Santa Cruz’s ban on “Rock-and-roll and other forms of frenzied music” was doomed to fail, but it was hardly the only such attempt. Just two weeks later in its June 18, 1956 issue, Time magazine reported on similar bans recently enacted in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and in San Antonio, Texas, where the city council’s fear of “undesirable elements” echoed the not-so-thinly-veiled concerns of Santa Cruz authorities over the racially integrated nature of the event that prompted the rock-and-roll ban issued on this day in 1956
June 3 1965: An American walked in space
One hundred and 20 miles above the earth, Major Edward H. White II opened the hatch of the Gemini 4 and stepped out of the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling his movements with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun, White remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes. As a space walker, White had been preceded by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, who on March 18, 1965, was the first man ever to walk in space.
Implemented at the height of the space race, NASA’s Gemini program was the least famous of the three U.S.-manned space programs conducted during the 1960s. However, as an extension of Project Mercury, which put the first American in space in 1961, Gemini laid the groundwork for the more dramatic Apollo lunar missions, which began in 1968. The Gemini space flights were the first to involve multiple crews, and the extended duration of the missions provided valuable information about the biological effects of longer-term space travel. When the Gemini program ended in 1966, U.S. astronauts had also perfected rendezvous and docking maneuvers with other orbiting vehicles, a skill that would be essential during the three-stage Apollo moon missions.
June 3 1989
Austerity measures introduced by the Nigerian government triggered riots in the capital city, Lagos.
June 3 1989
Austerity measures introduced by the Nigerian government triggered riots in the capital city, Lagos.
Source: history.com, africanhistory.about.com
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