Template:Selected anniversaries/June 3

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  1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

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  1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the First Opium War.

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  1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith derives new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1923: Mathematician dissident Igor Shafarevich born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, arithmetic algebraic geometry.

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  1927: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which anticipate later developments game theory.