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What Happened on June 4th This Day in History

Year	Name
2010	Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2005	The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
1998	Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
1996	The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
1989	In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989	The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).[5]
1989	Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.
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.
1988	Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1986	Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1983	Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
1979	Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1977	JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.
1975	The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
1970	Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.
1967	Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
1961	Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the 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.
1944	World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944	World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
1943	A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1942	World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1942	World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim.[2]
1940	World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1939	The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the 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.
1932	Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1928	The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1920	Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1919	Women'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.
1917	The 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.
1916	World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
1913	Emily Davison, a suffragist, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
1912	Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1896	Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1878	Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1876	An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First transcontinental railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1862	American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1859	Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1855	Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
1825	General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
1812	Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1802	King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1792	Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1784	Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
1783	The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1760	Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
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.
1615	Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1561	The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
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.

Famous People Born on June 4

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Year	Name
1962	Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Polish race car driver
1971	Mike Lee, American lawyer and politician
1939	George Reid, Scottish journalist and politician, 2nd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
1960	Paul Taylor, American guitarist and keyboard player
1943	John Burgess, Australian radio and television host
1936	Bruce Dern, American actor
1948	Bob Champion, English jockey
1738	George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
1967	Michael Greyeyes, Canadian actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator
1829	Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (d. 1903)

Famous People Deaths On June 4

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Date	Name
2015	Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (b. 1915)
1951	Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (b. 1874)
2016	Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)
2011	Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1940)
1394	Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b.c. 1368)
1990	Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
2002	Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 42nd President of Peru (b. 1912)
1801	Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1750)
2017	Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (b. 1931)
1962	Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)