June 4
June 4 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 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 within 5 hours by a total solar eclipse , the shortest such interval in the historical past.
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 by that name was renamed to 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 - Order of the British Empire introduced
1919 - Women's rights : The U.S. Congress approved 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 .
1926 - Robert Earl Hughes sets current record for worlds heaviest human.
1936 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France .
1939 - Holocaust : The SS St. Louis , a ship carrying a cargo of 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida 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 evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France .
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.
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 had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century .
1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies . It is the first capital of an Axis nation to fall.
1960 - Lake Bodom Murderers
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 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 .
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 spark off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe .
1989 - Train disaster : Ufa train disaster - A natural gas explosion near Ufa , Russia kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing .
2003 - Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigned as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living .
2004 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Births
470 BC - Socrates , Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC )
1489 - Anthony II of Lorraine , 'Il Buono', Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544 )
1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820 )
1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach , Austrian scientific editor, astronomer (d. 1832 )
1801 - Sir James Pennethorne , English architect (d. 1871 )
1867 - C.G.E. Mannerheim , Commander-in-Chief of Finland during the Civil War in Finland (1918 ) and World War II , later President of Finland (d. 1951 )
1867 - Alfred Vierkandt , sociologist (d. 1953 )
1877 - Heinrich Wieland , German biochemist (d. 1957 )
1882 - Karl Valentin , comedian and author (d. 1948 )
1887 - Tom Longboat , marathon runner and World War I despatch runner (d. 1949 )
1907 (or 1908 or 1912 ) - Rosalind Russell , American actress (d. 1976 )
1910 - Robert Anderson , economic advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1915 - Heinrich Tenhumberg , theologian, bishop of Münster (d. 1979 )
1919 - Robert Merrill , American baritone (d. 2004 )
1924 - Dennis Weaver , American actor
1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano , Argentine-Spanish footballer
1928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer , German-American sex therapist , author
1929 - Günter Strack , actor (d. 1999 )
1932 - John Drew Barrymore , American actor (d. 2004 )
1932 - Maurice Shadbolt , New Zealand writer
1936 - Bruce Dern , American actor
1937 - Freddy Fender , American country musician
1944 - Michelle Phillips , American actress, singer
1945 - Gordon Waller , musician ("Peter and Gordon ")
1947 - Viktor Klima , Austrian Chancellor
1952 - Parker Stevenson , American actor, director
1956 - Keith David , American actor
1956 - John Hockenberry , journalist
1962 - Lindsay Frost , actress
1965 - Mick Doohan , Australian motorcycle racer
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli , Italian opera singer
1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky , mathematician
1966 - Tiffany Million , pornographic actress
1970 - David Pybus , British musician
1971 - Noah Wyle , American actor
1972 - Derian Hatcher , American hockey player
1975 - Angelina Jolie , American actress
1975 - Robert Shaw, publisher
1977 - Quinten Hann , Australian snooker player
Deaths
1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. c. 990 )
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland (b. c. 1220 )
1663 - William Juxon , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582 )
1798 - Giacomo Casanova , Italian lover (b. 1725 )
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg , first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1750 )
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 jazz 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 )
1968 - Dorothy Gish , American actress (b. 1898 )
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet , French mathematician (b. 1878 )
1983 - Ivan Tors , producer, writer, animal trainer
1990 - Stiv Bators , American musician ("The Dead Boys ") (b. 1949 )
1999 - Noemi Dominguez , schoolteacher
2001 - King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971 )
2001 - John Hartford , American musician, composer (b. 1937 )
2002 - Fernando Belaunde Terry , Peruvian politician, president of Peru (b. 1912 )
2004 - Steve Lacy , American saxophonist (b. 1934 )
Holidays and observances
External links
June 3 - June 5 - May 4 - July 4 -- listing of all days
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