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June 3

4 sourced moments from June 3 in history: Ed White made the first American spacewalk on June 3, 1965; Gemini 4 was America's first multi-day spaceflight (1965); Tiananmen Square crackdown began in Beijing (1989), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on June 3

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2017 Sports · Extreme Sports

Alex Honnold climbed 3,000 feet of El Capitan with no rope

In under four hours, one slip from death the whole way, he made the first free solo of Yosemite's great wall.

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1989 History · Modern

Tiananmen Square crackdown began in Beijing

On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops and tanks rolled into Beijing to crush a peaceful movement for political reform.

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1965 Space · Space Exploration

Ed White made the first American spacewalk on June 3, 1965

Ed White was the second person to walk in space, but the first to steer himself with a jet gun, and he did not want to come back in.

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1965 Space · Space Exploration

Gemini 4 was America's first multi-day spaceflight

Gemini IV kept two astronauts up for four days in June 1965, nearly triple the US record but still short of a Soviet five-day flight.

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