On this day, June 3: 8 people die in the attack on London Bridge

On this date in history:

In 1888, the comic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” was published in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiner.

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In 1937, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, married divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore after he abdicated the British throne.

In 1940, waves of German bombers raided Paris, killing 48 people, damaging buildings and narrowly missing U.S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt.

In 1965, Gemini IV astronaut Ed White made the first American spacewalk. White, tethered to a 25-foot rope, was outside the spacecraft for 23 minutes. He later said the order to end his spacewalk was the “saddest moment” of his life.

In 1968, radical feminist author and actress Valerie Solanas shot artist Andy Warhol in his New York studio The Factory. Warhol survived the shooting after a five-hour operation to repair several internal organ defects.

In 1989, Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Revolution, died 11 days after an operation to stop internal bleeding.

In 2004, CIA Director George Tenet resigned.

In 2008, US Senator Barack Obama from Illinois secured the nomination for president on the last day of the Democratic primaries.

In 2011, 83-year-old Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor known as “Dr. Death,” died. His advocacy for assisted suicide caused great concern among medical ethicists and legal authorities.

In 2012, a Dana Air passenger plane crashed into a two-story residential building in a densely populated suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, killing 153 people on board the plane and 10 on the ground.

In 2017, a van ran over pedestrians on London Bridge and the drivers stabbed people in nearby bars and restaurants, leaving eight people dead. The attackers were shot dead by police and Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks.

In 2018, the Fuego volcano erupted in Guatemala, spewing lava ash into surrounding villages and killing more than 100 people.

According to Forbes, Jay-Z became the first hip-hop artist to become a billionaire in 2019.

In 2021, SpaceX launched tiny squids, medical experiments and improved solar panels for the International Space Station.