What happened on June 4? There are more than 269 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 4
June 4 is the 156th day of the year 2024. There are 210 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 23rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Brazil, Indiana 47834 sunrise will occur at 05:20 AM and sunset will occur at 08:13 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 4
- 1039Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1411King 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.
- 1615Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1760Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
- 1783The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
- 1792Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1794British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
- 1802Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
- 1812Following Louisiana’s admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
- 1825French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
- 1859Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
- 1862American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1876An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
- 1878Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
- 1896Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- 1912Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- 1913Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
- 1916World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
- 1917The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for 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.
- 1919Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
- 1920Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
- 1928President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
- 1939Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1940World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech.
- 1942World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
- 1943A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
- 1944World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- 1944World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
- 1957Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1961In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
- 1965Duane Earl Pope robbed the Farmers’ State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime landed Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
- 1967Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- 1970Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- 1974During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
- 1975Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
- 1979Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
- 1986Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1988Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
- 1989Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- 1989Solidarity’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, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
- 1989The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.
- 1989Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- 1996The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
- 1998Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2001Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
- 2010Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
Who Were Born On June 4?
- 1394Philippa of England, queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)
- 1489Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
- 1604Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1648)
- 1665Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
- 1694François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
- 1704Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
- 1738King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
- 1744Patrick Ferguson, Scottish officer in the British Army and rifle designer (d. 1780)
- 1754Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
- 1787Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
- 1801James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
- 1821Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
- 1829Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (d. 1903)
- 1866Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
- 1867Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal, Supreme Commander and later President of Finland (d. 1951)
- 1877Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
- 1879Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children’s author and illustrator (d. 1964)
- 1880Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
- 1881Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
- 1887Tom Longboat, Native Canadian marathon runner (d. 1949)
- 1894Madame Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
- 1899Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
- 1904Bhagat Puran Singh, Punjabi social activist (d. 1992)
- 1907Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
- 1907Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990)
- 1907Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1910Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999)
- 1912Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
- 1916Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
- 1916Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
- 1917Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
- 1921Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach
- 1921Don Diamond, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1921Emilio Komar, Slovenian-born Argentine philosopher (d. 2006)
- 1923Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
- 1924Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1924Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)
- 1926Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became the heaviest known human (d. 1958)
- 1927Geoffrey Palmer, English actor
- 1927Henning Carlsen, Danish film director
- 1928Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist and author
- 1929Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician
- 1930Morgana King, American actress
- 1930Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
- 1932John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1932Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
- 1932Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
- 1934Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan conservationist and author
- 1934Dame Monica Dacon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines schoolteacher, educator and politician
- 1934Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
- 1935Colette Boky, Quebec operatic soprano
- 1936Bruce Dern, American actor
- 1936Nutan Behl, Indian actress (d. 1991)
- 1937Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1937Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1937Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher
- 1937Robert Fulghum, American author
- 1938Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
- 1940Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
- 1941Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright and screenwriter
- 1942Bill Rowe, Canadian radio personality and politician
- 1942Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer
- 1943Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
- 1943Sandra Haynie, American golfer
- 1944Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
- 1945Anthony Braxton, American composer and instrumentalist
- 1945Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon) (d. 2009)
- 1947Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
- 1948Bob Champion, English jockey
- 1948Jurgen Sparwasser, German footballer
- 1949Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor
- 1949Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
- 1950Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears)
- 1950George Noory, American radio personality
- 1950Kevin Woodford, English celebrity chef
- 1951Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist
- 1952Bronisław Komorowski, Marshal of the Polish Sejm and acting President of Poland
- 1952Parker Stevenson, American actor and director
- 1953Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician (d. 1979)
- 1953Linda Lingle, 6th Governor of Hawaii
- 1953Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002)
- 1953Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
- 1955Mary Testa, American stage actress
- 1955Paul Stewart, English writer
- 1955Val McDermid, Scottish writer
- 1956Gerry Ryan, Irish radio talkshow host (d. 2010)
- 1956John Hockenberry, American journalist
- 1956Keith David, American actor
- 1956Martin Adams, English darts player
- 1956Terry Kennedy, American baseball player and manager
- 1957John Treacy, Irish athlete
- 1957Yoon Suk-ho, South Korean director
- 1958Eddie Velez, American Actor
- 1959Juan Camacho, Bolivian long-distance runner
- 1960Bradley Walsh, British actor
- 1960Miloš Đelmaš, Serbian footballer
- 1961El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge)
- 1961Ferenc Gyurcsány, 6th Prime Minister of Hungary
- 1962John P. Kee, American gospel singer
- 1962Krzysztof Holowczyc, Polish rally driver
- 1962Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
- 1963Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player
- 1964Koji Yamamura Japanese Animator
- 1964Sean Pertwee, English actor
- 1964Simon Cheshire, English children’s writer
- 1965Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
- 1965Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1966Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
- 1966Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
- 1967Robert Shane Kimbrough, American astronaut
- 1968Al B. Sure, American R&B singer
- 1968Scott Wolf, American actor
- 1969Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
- 1970David Pybus, British musician
- 1970Izabella Scorupco, Polish actress
- 1970Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
- 1971James Callis, British actor
- 1971Joseph Kabila, Congolese politician
- 1971Mike Lee, American politician, junior senator from Utah
- 1971Noah Wyle, American actor
- 1971Shōji Meguro, Japanese composer
- 1972Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
- 1972Joe Hill, American writer
- 1972Nikka Costa, American singer
- 1972Rob Huebel, American comedian
- 1973Mikey Whipwreck, American professional wrestler
- 1974Andrew Gwynne, British politician
- 1974Buddy Wakefield, American poet
- 1974Darin Erstad, American baseball player
- 1974Stefan Lessard, American musician
- 1975Angelina Jolie, American actress
- 1975Henry Burris, American football player
- 1975Russell Brand, British comedian, actor and television personality
- 1976Kasey Chambers, Australian alternative country singer-songwriter
- 1976Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player
- 1977Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
- 1977Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
- 1977Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
- 1977Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
- 1977Roman Miroshnichenko, Ukrainian guitarist
- 1979Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
- 1979Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
- 1980François Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
- 1981T. J. Miller, American actor and comedian
- 1982Jamie Dornan, Irish model and actor
- 1982Jin Au-Yeung, American rapper
- 1982Ronnie Prude, American football player
- 1983Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
- 1983Romaric, Ivorian footballer
- 1984Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
- 1984Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer
- 1984Ian White, Canadian hockey player
- 1984Jenaveve Jolie, American pornographic actress
- 1984Kento Handa, Japanese actor
- 1984Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
- 1985Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
- 1985Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
- 1985Evan Lysacek, American 2010 Olympic champion figure skater
- 1985Lukas Podolski, German footballer
- 1985Oddvar Reiakvam, Norwegian politician
- 1986Micky, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
- 1986Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
- 1986Tori Praver, American model
- 1987Mollie King, British singer (The Saturdays)
- 1988Teja Hay, American Sarcasmist
- 1989Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer
- 1989Federico Erba, Italian footballer
- 1991Kathryn Prescott, British actress
- 1991Megan Prescott, British actress
- 1992Brooke Vincent, British actress
- 1992Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
Who Died On June 4?
- 1039Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1135Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
- 1206Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
- 1257Duke Przemysl I of Poland
- 1394Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b. c 1369)
- 1463Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
- 1585Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
- 1663William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
- 1798Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (b. 1725)
- 1801Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
- 1830Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
- 1872Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
- 1875Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
- 1922William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
- 1926Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
- 1928Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
- 1929Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
- 1939Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
- 1941Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (b. 1859)
- 1942Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official (b. 1904)
- 1951Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
- 1956Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
- 1962Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
- 1964Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
- 1968Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1970Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1971Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
- 1973Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1973Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
- 1989Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
- 1992Carl Stotz, American Little League founder (b. 1910)
- 1994Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman’s Hermits) (b. 1943)
- 1994Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
- 1997Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946)
- 2001Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
- 2001John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2002Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
- 2004Marvin Heemeyer, American muffler owner (b. 1952)
- 2004Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
- 2004Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 2007Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
- 2007Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
- 2007Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
- 2007Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- 2007Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
- 2007Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
- 2008Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
- 2010John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
- 2011Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)
- 2011Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander governor (b. 1940)
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