June 4
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is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining.
Events
- 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
- 1039 - Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
- 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past.
- 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
- 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.
- 1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
- 1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
- 1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
- 1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
- 1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
- 1917 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
- 1919 - Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
- 1920 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
- 1928 - Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin assassinated by Japanese agents.
- 1936 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
- 1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
- 1943 - Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
- 1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis powers capital to fall.
- 1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- 1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973 - Patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- 1974 - The Cleveland Indians attempt an ill-advised ten cent beer promotion for a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits 9-0 after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
- 1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests are violently suppressed in Beijing and are covered live on television.
- 1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm.
- 1989 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- 1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
- 1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Births
- 470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC)
- 1489 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
- 1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
- 1694 - François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
- 1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
- 1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
- 1744 - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer, killed in action (d. 1780)
- 1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
- 1787 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
- 1801 - Sir James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
- 1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
- 1866 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (d. 1952)
- 1867 - C.G.E. Mannerheim, President of Finland (d. 1951)
- 1877 - Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
- 1880 - Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
- 1894 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
- 1907 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1907 - Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
- 1910 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999)
- 1916 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1916 - Fernand Leduc, French Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
- 1919 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist
- 1924 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
- 1928 - Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist and author
- 1929 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Morgana King, American actress
- 1930 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
- 1932 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
- 1936 - Bruce Dern, American actor
- 1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician
- 1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author
- 1937 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1937 - Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher (US News and World Report)
- 1944 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
- 1945 - Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon)
- 1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
- 1950 - George Noory, American radio personality (Coast to Coast AM)
- 1952 - Parker Stevenson, American actor and director
- 1953 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
- 1956 - Keith David, American actor
- 1956 - John Hockenberry, American journalist
- 1961 - El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge)
- 1961 - Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
- 1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
- 1966 - Tiffany Million, American actress
- 1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
- 1969 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
- 1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician (aka Plastikman)
- 1970 - David Pybus, British musician
- 1971 - Noah Wyle, American actor
- 1972 - Nikka Costa, American funk singer
- 1972 - Derian Hatcher, American hockey player
- 1972 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
- 1974 - Andrew Gwynne, British politician
- 1974 - Stefan Lessard, bassist in Dave Matthews Band
- 1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
- 1977 - Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
- 1983 - Emmanuel Eboue, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1985 - Lukas Podolski, Polish-born German footballer
- 1985 - Bar Refaeli, Israeli international supermodel
- 1986 - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
Deaths
- 1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
- 1206 - Adèle of Champagne, queen of Louis VII of France
- 1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
- 1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England
- 1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
- 1585 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
- 1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
- 1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover and writer (b. 1725)
- 1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1750)
- 1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, South Américan independence hero and Great Marshall of Ayacucho
- 1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1798)
- 1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
- 1928 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
- 1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
- 1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (b. 1859)
- 1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904)
- 1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
- 1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (b. 1881)
- 1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
- 1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
- 1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1973 - Murry Wilson, Record producer - Father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
- 1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917 or 1918)
- 1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
- 1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
- 1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player with Small Faces and Faces (band) (b. 1946)
- 2001 - King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
- 2001 - John Hartford, American musician, composer (b. 1937)
- 2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (b. 1912)
- 2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
- Feast day of St Francis Caracciolo.
- Feast day of Saint Petrock of Cornwall.
- International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day.
- Tonga - National Day.
- Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday).
- Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989 memorial day.
- United States - Pentecost in 2006
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