June 4
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June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1394 – Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (died 1430)
- 1489 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)
- 1604 – Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1648)
- 1738 – King George III of Great Britain (died 1820)
- 1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish officer in the British Army, and rifle designer (died 1780)
- 1754 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (died 1832)
- 1819 – Columbus Delano, American politician (died 1896)
- 1866 – Miina Sillanpaa, Finnish politician (died 1952)
- 1867 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and President (died 1951)
- 1877 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German biochemist (died 1957)
- 1881 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (died 1962)
- 1887 – Tom Longboat, Native Canadian marathon runner (died 1949)
- 1889 – Beno Gutenberg, German seismologist (died 1960)
- 1899 – Stringer Davis, English actor (died 1973)
- 1907 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (died 1976)
- 1910 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (died 1999)
- 1915 – Modibo Keita, 1st President of Mali (died 1977)
- 1916 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist (died 2009)
- 1916 – Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter
- 1924 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (died 2006)
- 1924 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa (died 1999)
- 1927 – Geoffrey Palmer, British actor
- 1929 – Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece
- 1933 – Frank D. White, 41st Governor of Arkansas (died 2003)
- 1934 – Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan author and conservationist
- 1934 – Monica Dacon, former acting Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor
- 1944 – Michelle Phillips, American actress and singer (Mamas and Papas)
- 1947 – Viktor Klima, former Chancellor of Austria
- 1948 – Jurgen Sparwasser, German footballer
- 1952 – Bronislaw Komorowski, Polish politician, President of Poland
- 1953 – Linda Lingle, American politician, 6th State Governor of Hawaii
- 1955 – Val McDermid, Scottish author
- 1956 – Martin Adams, English darts player
- 1961 – Ferenc Gyurcsany, former Prime Minister of Hungary.
- 1964 – Sean Pertwee, British actor
- 1965 – Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1966 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian opera singer
- 1969 – Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
- 1971 – Noah Wyle, American actor
- 1971 – Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1972 – Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
- 1975 – Russell Brand, British comedian
- 1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress
- 1979 – Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
- 1983 – Emmanuel Eboue, Ivorian footballer
- 1983 – Koffi Ndri Romaric, Ivorian footballer
- 1985 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
- 1985 – Lukas Podolski, German footballer
- 1985 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (died 2006)
- 1987 – Mollie King, British singer (The Saturdays)
- 1989 – Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer (Ell & Nikki)
- 1990 – Jetsun Pema, Queen of Bhutan
Deaths [change]
- 1039 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (born (about) 990)
- 1135 – Emperor Huizong of China (born 1082)
- 1257 – Duke Przemysl I of Poland (born (about) 1220)
- 1472 – Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec ruler, philosopher and poet (born 1402)
- 1663 – William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1582)
- 1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover (born 1725)
- 1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1750)
- 1872 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (born 1798)
- 1875 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (born 1804)
- 1876 – Abdulaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1830)
- 1887 – William A. Wheeler, Vice President of the United States (born 1819)
- 1916 – Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War (born 1850)
- 1928 – Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (born 1873)
- 1939 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz musician (born 1900)
- 1941 – Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (born 1859)
- 1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (born 1904)
- 1951 – Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (born 1874)
- 1968 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
- 1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (born 1878)
- 1983 – Ivan Tors, producer, writer, animal trainer
- 1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician ("The Dead Boys") (born 1949)
- 1994 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (born 1953)
- 2001 – King Dipendra of Nepal (born 1971)
- 2001 – John Hartford, American musician, composer (born 1937)
- 2002 – Fernando Belaunde Terry, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (born 1912)
- 2004 – Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (born 1934)
- 2004 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (born 1921)
- 2007 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (born 1933)
- 2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
- 2011 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (born 1930)
- 2011 – Lilian Jackson Braun, American author (born 1913)
- 2012 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (born 1934)
Events [change]
- 780 BC – The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
- 1039 – Henry III becomes King of Germany.
- 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 – In Annonay, France, the Montgolfier Brothers demonstrate their unmanned 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 territory previously known by that name 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.
- 1896 – Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed – the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).
- 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.
- 1917 – The Order of the British Empire is introduced.
- 1919 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee 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.
- 1924 – During a British expedition, Edward Felix Norton reaches the height of 8,573 metres above sea level (on Mount Everest), the highest point climbed by anyone until then, but because of it being evening, he is unable to go up to the summit.
- 1926 – Robert Earl Hughes sets current record for world's heaviest human.
- 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 die in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1940 – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published.
- 1940 – World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
- 1940 – The Destroyer War Badge for Kriegsmarine was instituted.
- 1942 – World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by 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.
- 1950 – With a 5-2 win over the Poland national football team, the Hungary national football team starts a winning run that ends in the FIFA World Cup final in 1954.
- 1961 – Lake Bodom murders in Finland.
- 1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. Taufa'ahau Tupou IV is King, a position he already held since 1965 when Tonga was a British protectorate.
- 1973 – patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- 1974 – Baseball: The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans.
- 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1988 – The Canadian Heraldic Authority is founded.
- 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are 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.
- 1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- 1991 – Britain'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.
- 2000 – A magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Indonesia kills 103 people.
- 2001 – Gyanendra becomes King of Nepal, after the death of Dipendra of Nepal, who was King for three days after the Royal Massacre, in which he was injured.
- 2002 – The wall of the Zeyzoun reservoir in Syria breaks. The resulting flood kills 100 people.
- 2003 – U.S. lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigns as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.
- 2005 – First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 2011 – The Puyehue Cordon Caulle volcanic structure in Chile erupts, sending an ash cloud over parts of South America and as far away as Oceania, causing many flights to be cancelled.
Holidays and observances [change]
- Feast day of St Francis Caracciolo
- Feast day of Saint Petrock of Cornwall
- International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day
- Independence Day (Tonga)
- National Unity Day (Hungary)
Other websites [change]
June 3 – June 5 – May 4 – July 4 – listing of all days
