| 63541 | June 3 | Event | 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. |
| 63542 | June 3 | Event | 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. |
| 63543 | June 3 | Event | 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. |
| 63544 | June 3 | Event | 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics co |
| 63545 | June 3 | Event | 1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. |
| 63546 | June 3 | Event | 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 the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them |
| 63547 | June 3 | Event | 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. |
| 63548 | June 3 | Event | 1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. |
| 63549 | June 3 | Event | 1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo. |
| 63550 | June 3 | Event | 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence. |
| 63551 | June 3 | Event | 2012 – A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and 10 people on the ground. |
| 63552 | June 3 | Event | 2012 – The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames. |
| 63553 | June 3 | Event | 2013 – The trial of United States Army private Bradley Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland. |
| 63554 | June 3 | Event | 2013 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China. |
| 63555 | June 3 | Birth | 1537 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554) |
| 63556 | June 3 | Birth | 1540 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1590) |
| 63557 | June 3 | Birth | 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright and composer (d. 1688) |
| 63558 | June 3 | Birth | 1636 – John Hale, American minister (d. 1700) |
| 63559 | June 3 | Birth | 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1708) |
| 63560 | June 3 | Birth | 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician, geologist, and botanist (d. 1788) |
| 63561 | June 3 | Birth | 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (d. 1797) |
| 63562 | June 3 | Birth | 1736 – Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer (d. 1811) |
| 63563 | June 3 | Birth | 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1820) |
| 63564 | June 3 | Birth | 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889) |
| 63565 | June 3 | Birth | 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician, Governor of Senegal (d. 1889) |
| 63566 | June 3 | Birth | 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892) |
| 63567 | June 3 | Birth | 1832 – Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (d. 1918) |
| 63568 | June 3 | Birth | 1840 – Michael O'Laughlen, American soldier, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867) |
| 63569 | June 3 | Birth | 1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912) |
| 63570 | June 3 | Birth | 1844 – Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899) |