About the day » Thursday June 3, 1897Calender converter

• Angelo Amâncio Soares Fragoso, Rio Negro, Paraná, Brasil († 1946)
• Aafke Schoonbeek, Farmsum (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Adelheid Herbers, Veersen
• Alice L McMahon († 1988)
• Agnes Maria Stoks, Venray (Venray) (Limburg)
• Albert Jules Joseph JOSIEN, Hinges,62454,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1974)
• Adriana Francina Vet, Vlissingen
• Anna Catharina Beekman, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Marie Christensen († 1982)
• Anna Maria Schinkels, Nederweert, Limburg, Nederland († 1939)

• Anne Marie HENRY (39), Broons, 22250, France
• Béatrix de Merode (13), Everberg, 24055, Belgique
• Antonius Bosch (86), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Dupon (88), Heerenveen, Schoterland
• Anthonie Cornelis Marinus Deurloo (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christuanus Hubertus Biesmans (0), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Clarence Edward TerMaat (4), Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin
• Benedictus Vandyck (72), Geel, 2440, België
• Berendina Egbars (0), Nijmegen
• Antonia Batenburg van (0), Hoeven

• 1890 » Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1897 » Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1899 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1900 » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic († 1997)
• 1901 » Maurice Evans, English actor († 1989)
• 1901 » Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord († 2001)
• 1903 » Eddie Acuff, American actor († 1956)
• 1904 » Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon († 1950)
• 1904 » Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor († 1984)

• 1875 » Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 » Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (b. 1800)
• 1882 » Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1894 » Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1825)
• 1900 » Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
• 1902 » Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1829)
• 1906 » John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
• 1921 » Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (b. 1879)
• 1924 » Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (b. 1883)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
• May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
• July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
• November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

The temperature on June 3, 1897 was about 25.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.