On This Day: Friday June 3, 2005 This is the 154th day of the year, with 211 days remaining in 2005. Holidays 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. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina: Jefferson Davis's Birthday. Kentucky, Louisiana: Confederate Memorial Day. Ireland: Bank Holiday. Events 1162 - Thomas à Becket was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. 1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now New York). 1800 - John Adams, the 2nd president of the United States, became the first president to reside in Washington, DC, when he took up residence at Union Tavern in Georgetown. 1835 - PT Barnum's circus started its first tour of the United States. 1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. 1880 - Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly-invented "photophone." 1916 - The National Defense Act was authorized, establishing the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). 1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France. 1959 - The first class of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, graduated. 1965 - Astronaut Edward White became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of Gemini 4. 1968 - Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio by Valerie Solanas, an actress and militant feminist. 1972 - Sally Jan Priesand was ordained the first woman rabbi in the US. 1989 - The Chinese government authorized its soldiers and tanks to reclaim Beijing's Tiananmen Square after 7 weeks of protests for democratic reforms. The army killed 2000 protesters. Births 1808 - Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy. 1811 - Henry James, American philosophical theologian. 1853 - William Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist. 1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, American inventor and automobile manufacturer. 1906 - Josephine Baker, actress, comedienne, singer, dancer. 1925 - Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor. 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet, writer.