Today in history, 4 june
eduguru 0 Comments 000 troops from Dunkirk in France, 1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries, 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, 1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1802 – King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, 1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U, 1825 – General Lafayette, 1855 – Major Henry C, 1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, 1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, 1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1913 – Emily Davison, 1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia, 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E, 1919 – Women's rights: The U, 1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris, 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, 1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile, 1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St, 1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338, 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins, 1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo, 1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U, 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, 1961 – Cold War: In the Vienna summit, 1967 – England: 72 people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport, 1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom, 1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, 1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown, 1983 – Gordon Kahl, 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel, 1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, 1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, 1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds, 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, 2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, 4 june, 500, 500 metres altitude (estimated), a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, a suffragette, after a four-month manhunt, after already being turned away from Cuba, along with a local sheriff, and dies four days later, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe), and gives it a successful test run, and reached 1, and sends it to the U, and the independence of Tonga from the British protectorate in 1970. (Tonga), Arkansas, Birthday of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim & Flag Day celebration of the Finnish Defence Forces (Finland), British and French access to East Berlin, Buffalo, Camel Corps, Canada, Christian feast day, commemorates the abolition of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, defeat the Austrian army, during his visit to the United States, Elliott, Emancipation Day or Independence Day, Filippo Smaldone, Flag Day (Estonia), Forced to return to Europe, Francis Caracciolo, giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights, Gorky Oblast, Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, Herbert B, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech, his first gasoline-powered automobile, Holidays and observances, in the United States, International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (International), is assassinated by Japanese agents, is denied permission to land in Florida, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, It was a Cluster mission, Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days, June 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), killing 91 and injuring about 1, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Louis, Maude H, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps, National Unity Day (Hungary), Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century, never regains consciousness, North Dakota on February 13, only to the House of Commons, Optatus, Petroc of Cornwall, Quirinus of Sescia, Richards, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby, Russia, s, Saturnina, She is trampled, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, state, states for ratification, Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World, taken from the Acadians, Tennessee, the first Axis capital to fall, the first law in the U, the French army, The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory, the medieval cathedral of London, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Memorial Day (International), To rally the morale of the country, Today in History, Today in history 4 june, under Louis-Napoleon, USSR, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City, Victor Emmanuel, Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U, which guarantees suffrage to women, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, Winston Churchill delivers, with at least 241 dead, Zhang Zuolin
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