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On This Day

June 3

2004
Iraq War: CIA Director George Tenet resigns.

1993
Ireland approves the sale of condoms: They were removed from the official list of birth-control devices, making them available for sale in vending machines.

1972
First U.S. woman Rabbi: 25-year-old Sally Jane Priesand is ordained at Wise Temple of Cincinnati, Ohio.

1949
First woman Treasurer of the U.S.: Georgia Neese Clark is nominated by Pres. Truman.

1937
The Duke of Windsor marries American divorcee Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. He gave up his throne as King of England (1936) to marry her.

1916
Mary Edwards Walker's Medal of Honor is revoked. She was the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor. It was reinstated in 1977.

1888
Casey at the Bat, by Ernest L. Thayer, is first published.

1851
First baseball team to wear uniforms: The New York Knickerbockers.

1964
Chris Harmon, underground cartoonist, created Chester (1983).

1958
Scott Valentine, American actor. TV: Family Ties (Nick).

1943
Michael Clarke, American drummer, with The Byrds. Music: Mr. Tambourine Man (1965, #1) and Turn! Turn! Turn! (1966).

1925
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), American actor. Film: Some Like It Hot (1959). TV: The Persuaders (Danny Wilde).

1915     d. 1969
Leo Gorcey, American actor. Film: He played Spit in the movies featuring the Dead End Kids, East Side Kids, and Bowery Boys.

1906     d. 1975
Josephine Baker, American-born French singer, actress. At the height of her career she was the highest-paid European entertainer.

1901     d. 1989
Maurice Evans, British-born American Shakespearean actor. TV: Bewitched (Samantha's father).

1844     d. 1899
Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th U.S. Vice-President (1897-99).

1808     d. 1889
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy (1861-65).

2001     b. 1915
Anthony Quinn (Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn), Irish-Mexican Oscar-winning actor. Film: Lust for Life (1956, for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, even though he was only in the film for only eight minutes) and Zorba the Greek (1964).

1992     b. 1922
William Maxwell Gaines, American comic-book publisher. Comic books: Mad Magazine.

1990     b. 1927
Robert Norton Noyce, American businessman, nicknamed "Mayor of Silicon Valley. He co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) and Intel (1968). He and Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (1961).

1989     b. 1900
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, religious leader of Iran.

1975     b. 1907
Ozzie Nelson (Oswald George Nelson), American actor, musician. TV: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (creator and star).

1963     b. 1881
John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), 261st Pope (1958-63). He was the first pope named Time magazine's Man of the Year.

1899     b. 1825
Johann Strauss, Austrian composer, "The Waltz King."

1861     b. 1813
Stephen Arnold Douglas, American statesman, Lincoln debater. He was called "The Little Giant."

1841     b. 1752
Nicolas Appert, French scientist and chef, The Father of Canning, the first person to preserve food in jars (1804), opened the first canning factory, and invented the bouillon cube.

1657     b. 1578
William Harvey, English physician. He discovered the function of the heart and circulatory system.

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