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• Today is Monday, June 3, the 154th day of 2013. There are 211 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 3, 1963, Pope John XXIII died at age 81, ending a relatively brief but highly influential 4½-year papacy; he was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
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• On this date:
• In 1621, the Dutch West India Co. received its charter for a trade monopoly in parts of the Americas and Africa.
• In 1808, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was born in Christian County, Ky.
• In 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
• In 1937, Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson in a private ceremony in Monts, France.
• In 1943, Los Angeles saw the beginning of its "Zoot Suit Riots" as white servicemen clashed with young Latinos wearing distinctive-looking zoot suits; the violence finally ended when military officials declared the city off limits to enlisted personnel.
• In 1948, the 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated.
• In 1962, Air France Flight 007, a U.S.-bound Boeing 707, crashed while attempting to take off from Orly Airport near Paris; all but two of the 132 people aboard were killed.
• In 1963, a Northwest Orient Airlines DC-7 military charter en route from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska crashed off Annette Island with the loss of all 101 people aboard.
• In 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk" in space during the flight of Gemini 4.
• In 1972, Sally J. Priesand was ordained as America's first female rabbi at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• In 1983, Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law-enforcement officials

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