In 2023, the Full Moon for June rises on June 3 at 11:42 PM EDT. For some Native Americans, this month’s Moon was called the Strawberry Moon as it was a time for strawberries to ripen. It was known as the Full Rose Moon in Europe and also the Honey Moon.
Daily Calendar for Saturday, June 3, 2023
Born
- Jefferson Davis (president of the Confederacy) β
- Ransom Eli Olds (automobile manufacturer) β
- Roland Hayes (tenor) β
- Tony Curtis (actor) β
- Allen Ginsburg (poet) β
- Francis "Frank" Gouin (plant physiologist) β
- Anderson Cooper (television journalist) β
- Lalaine Vergara-Paras (actress) β
Died
- Johann Strauss, the Younger (composer) β
- The Marquess of Lansdowne (Canadian Governor General 1883-1888) β
- Pope John XXIII β
- Ozzie Nelson (actor) β
- Lew Wasserman (old time movie mogul) β
- David Carradine (actor) β
- Rue McClanahan (actress) β
- Dr. Jack Kevorkian (pathologist known as Dr. Deathβ due to his role in assisting the suicides of terminally ill peopleβ) β
- Muhammad Ali (boxer) β
Events
- John Adams became the first U.S. president to live in Washington, D.C..β
- The poem βCasey at the Batβ was published in the San Francisco Examinerβ
- The New York Times won its first Pulitzer Prizeβ
- Ernest Poole became the first to win a Pulitzer Prize in the category of novels (now known as fiction)β
- Baseball player Lou Gehrig hit 4 home runs in 1 gameβ
- Astronaut Edward H. White II was the first American to perform a spacewalkβ when he stepped outside of his spacecraft Gemini 4ββ
- The Royal Canadian Mint announced that nickel would replace silver in coinsβ
- Sally Jane Priesand became the first American female to be ordained as a rabbiβ
- Frances Bay, James Cameron, k.d. lang, The Kids in the Hall, Steve Nash, and Daria Werbowy were announced as being inducted into the Canada Walk of Fameβ
Weather
- Early hurricane wreaked havoc along the Atlantic coast from June 3 through 5.β
- Seattle received 1.42 inches of rain within 24 hours, a June recordβ
- Flood caused major devastation in Pueblo, Coloradoβ
- Golfball-size hail fell in northeast Coloradoβ