TODAY IN HISTORY - June 3rd:

1851 - 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1946 - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)

Getty Images
Getty Images
loading...

1969 - Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC

 
1980 - NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
1981 - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1936 - Larry McMurtry, US scriptwriter (Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986)
1950 - Suzi Quatro[cchio], singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days), born in Detroit, Michigan
1959 - Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids) 1937 - Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France

GOODBYE TO:

1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 69 2011 - James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)

To see more historical events that happened this date, visit:

"Wittle At work" with Jordan Lee...weekdays 10:00am-3:00pm on 100.7 WITL...Today's Best Country!

More From 100.7 WITL