^B{^#!16!3 June^N! Feast day of Genesius of Clermont, St Kevin, St Charles Lwanga, St Isaac of Cordova, St Morand, St Cecilius, St Clothilde, St Joseph Mkasa, St Lucillian and his Companions, Saints Liphardus and Urbicius, and Saints Pergentinus and Laurentinus.
^B{1098^B} The Crusaders took Antioch. ^B{1162^B} Thomas à Becket was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. ^B{1665^B} The English fleet defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Lowestoft. ^B{1942^B} US and Japanese naval forces began the Battle of Midway, in the Pacific. ^B{1946 ^B}King Umberto II left Italy and Alcide de Gasperi, the premier, became provisional head of state. ^B{1959^B} Singapore became self-governing.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}William Dampier, English navigator and adventurer, ^B{1652^B}; James Hutton, Scottish geologist, ^B{1726^B}; Sydney Smith, English clergyman and journalist, ^B{1771^B}; Richard Cobden, English economist and political reformer, ^B{1804^B}; William Flinders Petrie, English archeologist, ^B{1853^B}; George V, ^B{1865^B}; Wilfrid Thesiger, English explorer and writer, ^B{1910^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}John Aylmer, bishop of London, ^B{1594^B}; William Harvey, English physician who described the circulation of the blood, ^B{1657^B}; Georges Bizet, French composer, ^B{1875^B}; Johann Strauss, Austrian composer, ^B{1899^B}; Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist, ^B{1924^B}; Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Russian politician, ^B{1946^B}; Arthur Ransome, English children's writer, ^B{1967^B}.
