By The Associated Press
                       - Today is Thursday, June 3, the 154th day of 1999. There are 211 days
                         left in the year.

                       - Ten years ago, on June 3, 1989, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah
                         Ruhollah Khomeini died, the same day Chinese army troops began their
                         sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
                       - In 1621 the Dutch West India Company received a charter for New
                         Netherlands, now known as New York.
                       - In 1808 Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the
                         Confederacy, was born in Kentucky.
                       - In 1888 the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was
                         first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
                       - In 1937 the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne,
                         married Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France.
                       - In 1948 the 200-inch reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain
                         Observatory in California was dedicated.
                       - In 1963 Pope John XXIII died at the age of 81. He was succeeded by
                         Pope Paul VI.
                       - In 1968 pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in
                         his New York film studio, known as "The Factory," by Valerie
                         Solanas, an actress and self-styled feminist.
                       - In 1981 Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the
                         Vatican three weeks after the attempt on his life.
                       - 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 near Smithville, Ark.
                       - Five years ago President Clinton, continuing his tour of Italy,
                         visited the graves of American soldiers killed in the Anzio landing
                         during World War II. The U.S. began consultations with South Korea,
                         Japan and Russia on how to retaliate for North Korea's removal of
                         vital evidence about its nuclear weapons capability.
                       - One year ago President Clinton urged Congress to renew normal trade
                         benefits for China, saying good relations with Beijing were crucial
                         amid fears of a nuclear arms race in South Asia. A high-speed train
                         derailed in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.