Notable Historical Events on June 4th
June 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
781 |
Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse |
BC AD | |
1039 |
Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. |
1070 |
Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France |
1133 |
Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor |
1391 |
Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds & sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery |
1487 |
Lord Lovell & John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire |
1615 |
Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. |
1632 |
Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo |
1647 |
English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War |
1664 |
Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans |
1666 |
Battle at Dunkirk: English vs Dutch fleet |
1741 |
Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg |
1745 |
Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons |
1756 |
Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania |
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 history. |
1783 |
Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned) |
1784 |
Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist. |
1789 |
US constitution goes into effect |
1792 |
Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain |
1794 |
Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers |
1802 |
Grieving 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. |
1805 |
Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute |
1812 |
Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory" |
1825 |
Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC |
1831 |
National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium |
1832 |
3rd national black convention meets (Phila) |
1845 |
Mexican-US war starts |
1850 |
Empire Engine Company No 1 organized |
1850 |
Self-deodorizing fertilizer patented in England |
1862 |
Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tennessee |
1868 |
Van Bosse/Fock government begins |
1870 |
4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59.5 |
1873 |
1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname |
1875 |
Pacific Stock Exchange opens |
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 ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes |
1884 |
18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42 |
1892 |
Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die |
1892 |
Sierra Club forms in SF |
1896 |
Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit |
1907 |
Automatic washer & dryer introduced |
1912 |
Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses |
1912 |
Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law |
1913 |
Suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby |
1916 |
General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI) |
1917 |
1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) |
1917 |
American men begin registering for the draft |
1917 |
Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WW1 |
1919 |
Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill |
1919 |
US marines invade Costa Rica |
1920 |
Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary |
1927 |
1st Ryder Cup: US beats England, 9½-2½ at Worcester Country Club (Worcester, Massachusetts, US) |
1927 |
Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style |
1928 |
President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents. |
1929 |
George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY) |
1932 |
64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8 |
1932 |
Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France |
1937 |
Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France |
1938 |
10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews |
1938 |
70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6 |
1940 |
1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1) |
1940 |
1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2) |
1940 |
British complete the "miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 300,000 allies troops from France |
1940 |
German forces enter Paris during WWII |
1940 |
Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans" |
1941 |
Nazis forbid Jews access to beaches & swimming pools |
1941 |
Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z |
1942 |
Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II |
1942 |
Capitol Record Co opens for business |
1943 |
Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson & Col Juan Peron |
1943 |
Race riots in LA |
1943 |
St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter |
1944 |
1st British gliders touch down on French soil for D-Day |
1944 |
U505 becomes the first German submarine captured & boarded on high seas |
1944 |
5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies |
1944 |
French general De Gaulle arrives in London |
1945 |
6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa |
1945 |
US, Russia, Britain & France agree to split occupied Germany |
1946 |
Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed |
1947 |
"Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1947 |
US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act |
1949 |
"Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950 |
1950 |
CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election |
1950 |
Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25) |
1951 |
Mississippi Valley State University founded |
1951 |
Pirate's' Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 |
1953 |
Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner & Joe Garagiola to Chic |
1954 |
Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m |
1954 |
France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
1955 |
"Mickey Rooney Show" TV comedy last airs on NBC |
1956 |
Speech by Khrushchev criticising Stalin made public |
1957 |
1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation |
1957 |
May & Cowdrey make 411 stand v WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs |
1958 |
French premier Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
1958 |
SF Giants Hank Sauer & B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1961 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1962 |
Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US |
1963 |
1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio |
1963 |
British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal |
1964 |
Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark |
1964 |
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0 |
1964 |
Maldives adopts constitution |
1964 |
Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48 |
1966 |
"Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70 |
1966 |
-10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras |
1966 |
98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6 |
1967 |
19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball win |
1967 |
KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
1967 |
Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series |
1967 |
Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) |
1967 |
Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. |
1968 |
Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings |
1969 |
Beatles release Ballad Of John & Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US |
1969 |
Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group |
1969 |
22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft |
1970 |
43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant |
1970 |
SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1 |
1970 |
Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK |
1970 |
WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days |
1971 |
J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO |
1971 |
Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings |
1971 |
Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours |
1972 |
Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard |
1972 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1972 |
Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3) |
1973 |
43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
1973 |
A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain. |
1974 |
NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks |
1974 |
Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th |
1974 |
Saudi Arabia announces that it will increase its participation in Aramco to 60 percent |
1975 |
Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC |
1977 |
Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 |
1978 |
"Working" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 25 performances |
1978 |
32nd Tony Awards: Da & Ain't Misbehavin' win |
1978 |
6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
1978 |
Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections |
1979 |
South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal |
1979 |
Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons |
1979 |
Joe Clark is sworn in as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history |
1981 |
54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus |
1982 |
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA |
1982 |
Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon |
1983 |
53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) |
1984 |
18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers |
1984 |
Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs |
1984 |
Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA" |
1984 |
DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal |
1984 |
NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1 |
1985 |
STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad |
1985 |
Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law |
1986 |
Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court |
1987 |
Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins |
1988 |
"Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances |
1988 |
42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly & Phantom of the Opera win |
1988 |
58th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (6-0 6-0) |
1988 |
Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6) |
1988 |
Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee |
1989 |
2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000 |
1989 |
43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win |
1989 |
Beijing policeman shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping |
1989 |
Eastern Europe's 1st partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party comes to power |
1989 |
Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s |
1989 |
Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary |
1989 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1989 |
Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway |
1989 |
Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000. |
1990 |
24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless |
1990 |
Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy |
1990 |
LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves |
1990 |
NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 |
1990 |
Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die |
1991 |
1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania |
1991 |
Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders |
1991 |
Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union |
1992 |
San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium |
1992 |
USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp |
1994 |
Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96) |
1995 |
"Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 perf |
1995 |
49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win |
1995 |
8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000 |
1995 |
Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
1997 |
UN Security renews its "oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990 |
1998 |
Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
2000 |
54th Tony Awards: Copenhagen & Contact win |
2001 |
Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace. |
2012 |
US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi |
2012 |
Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq |
2012 |
Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983 |
2012 |
Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan |
2016 |
Prince died of chronic pain opioid overdose |
2016 |
Five Soldiers Killed in Texas Floods |
2017 |
Militants plough van into crowd on London Bridge, stab others on street |
2017 |
Holloway stops Aldo in 3rd, wins UFC featherweight belt |
2017 |
Albert Pujols hits 600th career homer; 9th to join club |
2017 |
Edinson Volquez throws sixth no-hitter in Marlins history |
2018 |
Death toll 25 in Guatemala volcano eruption |
2018 |
Guatemala's Fuego volcano eruption kills 25, injures hundreds |
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