June 3

Rabbis and lay leaders meeting in convention in Philadelphia founded the Jewish Publication Society, later known for its English translations of the Hebrew Bible.

Hebrew Union College ordained Sally Priesand at Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, the first woman ordained as a rabbi by an American seminary.

At Augustus's Secular Games in Rome, a choir of 27 boys and 27 girls sang Horace's Carmen Saeculare, composed for the occasion after the sacrifices to Apollo and Diana.

The English archaeologist Flinders Petrie, a pioneer of systematic excavation and sequence dating in Egyptology, was born in Charlton, England.

The French engineer and archaeologist Jacques de Morgan, later Director of Antiquities in Egypt and excavator of the Dahshur royal treasure, was born.

Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council the previous autumn, died at the Vatican after an illness.

The boxer and prominent Muslim public figure Muhammad Ali died in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the age of 74 after a long illness.

From Tahiti, James Cook and astronomer Charles Green observed the transit of Venus across the Sun, part of a worldwide effort to measure the scale of the solar system.

During the Gemini 4 mission, astronaut Edward White left his capsule for about twenty minutes to become the first American to walk in space.