Man armed with plastic bags defies world's biggest army
Following weeks of pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Chinese authorities ordered the army to disperse demonstrators on June 3, 1989.
The ensuing bloody crackdown produced one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century when a sole protester, holding two plastic bags, stood in front of a column of Chinese army tanks, blocking their path.
At one point during the standoff, he climbed aboard the lead tank and appeared to speak to its crew.
The man was quickly pulled away, either by fellow protesters, or as some theories go, by Chinese security officers.
To this day, we don't know who he is and what happened to him. But he remains a powerful symbol of defiance.
The Tiananmen Square protests ended in a massacre when the troops opened fire.
Students, workers and other ordinary citizens fought back, setting fire to some military vehicles, but they were overwhelmed.
No official death toll was ever released by the Chinese government, but human rights groups estimate it was the hundreds, if not thousands.
On June 3, 1992, the High Court in Australia ruled that a group of Torres Strait Islanders, led by Eddie Mabo, held ownership of Mer Island, overturning a 200-year-old legal fiction that had been used to deprive Indigenous Australians of their land.
Australia had been declared "terra nullius" by British authorities in order to provide a pretext for colonisation - in effect, the designation held that Australia was then an uninhabited, unsettled land.
This meant that Indigenous Australians could not be considered, under British law, to have any claim of ownership to the land they had lived on.
The court's ruling meant that Indigenous Australians could now make legal claims to lands in Australia.
The then federal government, under Prime Minister Paul Keating, passed the Native Title Act in 1993, which provided a framework under which native title claims could be contested.
Mabo himself died less than a year before the decision was handed down, but as the lead plaintiff, his name continues to be associated with the case.
Fifteen people were killed when a Soviet supersonic airliner crashed at the Paris air show on June 3, 1973.
The Tupolev TU44 aircraft, a Russian rival to the Anglo-French Concorde, split into pieces over a suburb of the French city.
Soon after the disaster, the Soviet Union abandoned its bid to build a fleet of supersonic jets.
The Larry King Live television chat show was first screened by CNN on June 3, 1985.
It became the network's most popular programme, attracting a nightly audience of one million viewers who watched King interview celebrities, politicians and sport stars.
The show ran until 2010.
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