Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 3
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June 3: Corpus Christi (various Western Christian churches, 2010); Feast day of Saint Carl and the Uganda Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church)
- 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus of the Constantinian dynasty proclaimed himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome with a group of gladiators.
- 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic.
- 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- 1937 – Months after he abdicated the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor married American socialite Wallis Simpson (pictured) in a private ceremony near Tours, France.
- 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attacked protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
- 1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its decision in the landmark case Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines.