June 03

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1839	In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.	The War on Drugs	Baby Missiles	Future Weather
2.	1885	In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.	The Police	Can't Stand Losing You	Every Breath You Take: The Singles
3.	1888	The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.	Death Cab for Cutie	No Joy in Mudville	We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
4.	1932	Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.	The Olivia Tremor Control	Cycle 3	Explanations II: Instrumental Themes and Dreams
5.	1965	Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first Americanspacewalk.	Depeche Mode	Spacewalker	Sounds of the Universe
6.	1968	Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.	David Bowie	Andy Warhol	Hunky Dory

(Historical facts about June 03 are from Wikipedia.)