WillDekkard
06-04-2010, 05:39 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 4th
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* 781 BC The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
* 1039 Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
* 1615 Siege of Osaka: 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 five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
* 1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiθre (hot air balloon).
* 1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
* 1794 British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
* 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.
* 1812 Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
* 1825 French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his United States visit.
* 1859 Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the 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 leaving New York City.
* 1878 Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
* 1896 Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, the first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
* 1912 Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
* 1913 Emily 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1920 Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
* 1928 President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
* 1939 Holocaust: 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, many of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
* 1940 World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
* 1940 World War II: Nazi forces enter the city of Paris, they finish taking control of the city 10 days later. (June 14, 1940)
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
* 1943 A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramσn 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.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
* 1944 World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
* 1967 Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
* 1970 Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
* 1979 Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
* 1986 Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
* 1989 Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
* 1989 The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army.
* 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, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
* 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.
* 1989 The victims of murderer Oba Chandler are found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida. Chandler would not be arrested until 1992.
* 1991 The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
* 1996 The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
* 1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
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- June 4th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 781 BC The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
* 1039 Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
* 1615 Siege of Osaka: 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 five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
* 1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiθre (hot air balloon).
* 1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
* 1794 British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
* 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.
* 1812 Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
* 1825 French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his United States visit.
* 1859 Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the 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 leaving New York City.
* 1878 Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
* 1896 Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, the first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
* 1912 Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
* 1913 Emily 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1920 Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
* 1928 President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
* 1939 Holocaust: 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, many of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
* 1940 World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
* 1940 World War II: Nazi forces enter the city of Paris, they finish taking control of the city 10 days later. (June 14, 1940)
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
* 1943 A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramσn 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.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
* 1944 World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
* 1967 Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
* 1970 Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
* 1979 Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
* 1986 Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
* 1989 Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
* 1989 The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army.
* 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, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
* 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.
* 1989 The victims of murderer Oba Chandler are found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida. Chandler would not be arrested until 1992.
* 1991 The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
* 1996 The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
* 1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
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