Born 1999: Dzhem Yamenov, Bulgarian politician
Born 1998: Sam Curran, English cricketer
Born 1997: Louis Hofmann, German actor
Born 1994: Harrison Bader, American baseball player
Born 1993: Otto Porter Jr., American basketball player
Born 2008: Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player
Born 2005: Désiré Doué, French footballer
Born 2002: Tyrell Sloan, Australian rugby league player
Born 2001: Jalen Suggs, American basketball player
Born 2000: Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter
Born 1999: Cameron Green, Australian cricketer
Died 2015: Avi Beker, Israeli political scientist and academic (born 1951)
Died 2014: Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (born 1942)
Died 2014: Gopinath Munde, Indian politician, 3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1949)
Died 2025: Jim Marshall, American football player (born 1937)
Died 2025: Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1936)
Died 2025: Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)
Died 2024: Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)
Died 2024: William Russell, English actor (born 1924)
Died 2021: F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (born 1933)
Died 2016: Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)
1989: The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
2019: Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.
2013: The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
2013: At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
2012: A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.
2012: The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
2006: The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
1998: After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
1992: Australian Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo which led to the Native Title Act 1993 overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius.
1991: Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
2025: Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.
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 Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1982: The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
1980: The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $1172 million in 2025) worth of damage.
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.
Holiday: Christian feast day: Clotilde
Holiday: Christian feast day: Blessed Francis Ingleby
Holiday: Christian feast day: Juan Grande Román
Holiday: Christian feast day: Kevin of Glendalough
Holiday: Christian feast day: Ovidius
Holiday: Christian feast day: Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox)
Holiday: Christian feast day: June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Holiday: Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, and Tennessee, United States)
Holiday: Economist day (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Holiday: Christian feast day: Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances: Martyrs' Day (Uganda)