On This Day, June 3: London Bridge attack kills 8

On this day in history:
– In 1888, the comic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” was printed in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiner.
– In 1937, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, wedded divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore after stepping down from the British throne.
– In 1940, German bombers attacked Paris for the first time during World War II, causing casualties and damage.
– In 1965, Gemini IV astronaut Ed White conducted the first American spacewalk.
– In 1968, feminist author Valerie Solanas shot artist Andy Warhol in New York City.
– In 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini passed away after surgery.
– In 2004, CIA Director George Tenet resigned.
– In 2008, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination.
– In 2011, physician Jack Kevorkian, known as “Dr. Death,” died.
– In 2012, a Dana Air jetliner crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, killing many.
– In 2017, a van attack on London Bridge resulted in multiple casualties.
– In 2018, Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, claiming numerous lives.
– In 2019, Jay-Z was declared the first billionaire hip-hop artist by Forbes.
– In 2021, SpaceX launched experiments and solar panels to the International Space Station.