June 4

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Events

780s BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
1039 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Siege of Osaka Osaka Castle in Japan.
1760 - Great Upheaval: New England (U.S.) 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 the historical past.
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Kingdom of Great Britain.
1794 - Kingdom of Great Britain troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1804 - Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clothilde, king Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy.
1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the France army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for United States troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1876 - An express railroad called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
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 the king's horse, Anmer (horse), at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
1917 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer Prize for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer Prize for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1919 - Women's rights: The Congress of the United States approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed 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 assassinated by Japanese agents.
1936 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazism concentration camps.
1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; Armed Forces of the United Kingdom forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk, France in France.
1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
1943 - Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the Germany submarine Unterseeboot-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allied powers, the first Axis powers capital to fall.
1948 - AC Omonoia: AC Omonoia (A football club in Cyprus) is created.
1960 - Lake Bodom murders. 3 Die, one survives with severe injuries
1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: Bmi (airline) flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 - Patent for the automated teller machine granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 - The Cleveland Indians attempt an ill-advised Ten Cent Beer Night for a game against the Texas Rangers (baseball) at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits 9-0 after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
1979 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup d'état 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 was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were violently ended in Chinese capital city - Beijing with People's Liberation Army soldiers and tanks, many innocent people were killed.
1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-Communism revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm.
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.
1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative Party (UK) government announces that some United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - Marvin Heemeyer uses a bulldozer equipped with homemade armor plating to partially level Granby, Colorado.

Births

1489 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
1694 - François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
1744 - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780)
1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
1787 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
1801 - James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1866 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
1867 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (d. 1951)
1877 - Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1957)
1880 - Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1887 - Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949)
1894 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
1899 - Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
1907 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
1907 - Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
1910 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999)
1916 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1916 - Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
1919 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
1923 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)
1928 - Ruth Westheimer, German-born sex therapist and author
1929 - Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician
1930 - Morgana King, American actress
1930 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
1932 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
1932 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
1932 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
1934 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
1936 - Bruce Dern, American actor
1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author
1937 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1937 - Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher
1938 - Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
1943 - Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
1944 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
1945 - Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon)
1945 - Anthony Braxton, American composer and instrumentalist
1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
1949 - Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor
1950 - Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950 - George Noory, American radio personality
1950 - Kevin Woodford, English celebrity chef
1952 - Parker Stevenson, American actor and director
1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson (band)) (d. 2002)
1953 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
1955 - Paul Stewart (writer), English writer
1956 - Martin Adams, English darts player
1956 - Keith David, American actor
1956 - John Hockenberry, American journalist
1956 - Terry Kennedy, American baseball player
1957 - John Treacy, Irish athlete
1960 - Bradley Walsh, British actor
1961 - El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge)
1961 - Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
1962 - Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
1962 - John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
1964 - Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
1969 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
1970 - David Pybus, British musician
1971 - Joseph Kabila, Democratic Republic of the Congolese politician
1971 - Noah Wyle, American actor
1971 - Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer
1972 - Nikka Costa, American singer
1972 - Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
1972 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
1974 - Darin Erstad, American baseball player
1974 - Andrew Gwynne, British politician
1974 - Stefan Lessard, American musician
1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
1975 - Henry Burris, American Football Quarterback
1975 - Russell Brand, British comedian and television personality
1977 - Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
1977 - Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
1977 - Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
1979 - Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
1979 - Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
1980 - Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
1980 - François Beauchemin, French Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Yourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
1982 - Jin Au-Yeung, Chinese-American rapper
1983 - Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
1984 - Ian White (Ice hockey player), Canadian hockey player
1984 - Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1985 - Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
1985 - Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
1985 - Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
1985 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
1986 - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
1990 - Zac Farro, American drummer in (Paramore)
1991 - Jordan Hinson, American actress
1992 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer

Deaths

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
1135 - Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty) (b. 1082)
1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England
1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
1585 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (b. 1725)
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
1928 - Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1941 - Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor (b. 1859)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904)
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946)
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Jim Clark (sheriff), American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 - Jay Macpherson, Canadian poet who translated old Greek myths (b. 1931)
2007 - U.S Senator Craig L. Thomas (b.1933)

Holidays and observances

Tonga - National Day.
Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday).
Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day.

Liturgical Feast days

Saint Francis Caracciolo (died 608)
Saint Petrock of Cornwall
Saint Quirinus (died 308)

External links

BBC: On This Day
On this day in Canada

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Events

780s BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
1039 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Siege of Osaka Osaka Castle in Japan.
1760 - Great Upheaval: New England (U.S.) 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 the historical past.
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Kingdom of Great Britain.
1794 - Kingdom of Great Britain troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1804 - Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clothilde, king Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy.
1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the France army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for United States troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1876 - An express railroad called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
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 the king's horse, Anmer (horse), at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
1917 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer Prize for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer Prize for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1919 - Women's rights: The Congress of the United States approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed 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 assassinated by Japanese agents.
1936 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazism concentration camps.
1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; Armed Forces of the United Kingdom forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk, France in France.
1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
1943 - Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the Germany submarine Unterseeboot-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allied powers, the first Axis powers capital to fall.
1948 - AC Omonoia: AC Omonoia (A football club in Cyprus) is created.
1960 - Lake Bodom murders. 3 Die, one survives with severe injuries
1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: Bmi (airline) flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 - Patent for the automated teller machine granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 - The Cleveland Indians attempt an ill-advised Ten Cent Beer Night for a game against the Texas Rangers (baseball) at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits 9-0 after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
1979 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup d'état 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 was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were violently ended in Chinese capital city - Beijing with People's Liberation Army soldiers and tanks, many innocent people were killed.
1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-Communism revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm.
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.
1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative Party (UK) government announces that some United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - Marvin Heemeyer uses a bulldozer equipped with homemade armor plating to partially level Granby, Colorado.

Births

1489 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
1694 - François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
1744 - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780)
1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
1787 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
1801 - James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1866 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
1867 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (d. 1951)
1877 - Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1957)
1880 - Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1887 - Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949)
1894 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
1899 - Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
1907 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
1907 - Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
1910 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999)
1916 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1916 - Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
1919 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
1923 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)
1928 - Ruth Westheimer, German-born sex therapist and author
1929 - Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician
1930 - Morgana King, American actress
1930 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
1932 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
1932 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
1932 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
1934 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
1936 - Bruce Dern, American actor
1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author
1937 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1937 - Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher
1938 - Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
1943 - Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
1944 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
1945 - Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon)
1945 - Anthony Braxton, American composer and instrumentalist
1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
1949 - Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor
1950 - Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950 - George Noory, American radio personality
1950 - Kevin Woodford, English celebrity chef
1952 - Parker Stevenson, American actor and director
1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson (band)) (d. 2002)
1953 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
1955 - Paul Stewart (writer), English writer
1956 - Martin Adams, English darts player
1956 - Keith David, American actor
1956 - John Hockenberry, American journalist
1956 - Terry Kennedy, American baseball player
1957 - John Treacy, Irish athlete
1960 - Bradley Walsh, British actor
1961 - El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge)
1961 - Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
1962 - Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
1962 - John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
1964 - Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
1969 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
1970 - David Pybus, British musician
1971 - Joseph Kabila, Democratic Republic of the Congolese politician
1971 - Noah Wyle, American actor
1971 - Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer
1972 - Nikka Costa, American singer
1972 - Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
1972 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
1974 - Darin Erstad, American baseball player
1974 - Andrew Gwynne, British politician
1974 - Stefan Lessard, American musician
1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
1975 - Henry Burris, American Football Quarterback
1975 - Russell Brand, British comedian and television personality
1977 - Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
1977 - Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
1977 - Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
1979 - Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
1979 - Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
1980 - Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
1980 - François Beauchemin, French Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Yourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
1982 - Jin Au-Yeung, Chinese-American rapper
1983 - Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
1984 - Ian White (Ice hockey player), Canadian hockey player
1984 - Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1985 - Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
1985 - Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
1985 - Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
1985 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
1986 - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
1990 - Zac Farro, American drummer in (Paramore)
1991 - Jordan Hinson, American actress
1992 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer

Deaths

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
1135 - Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty) (b. 1082)
1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England
1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
1585 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (b. 1725)
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
1928 - Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1941 - Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor (b. 1859)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904)
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946)
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Jim Clark (sheriff), American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 - Jay Macpherson, Canadian poet who translated old Greek myths (b. 1931)
2007 - U.S Senator Craig L. Thomas (b.1933)

Holidays and observances

Tonga - National Day.
Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday).
Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day.

Liturgical Feast days

External links

BBC: On This Day
On this day in Canada

BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square
The Chinese army storms a mass demonstration in Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 4 | 1940: Dunkirk rescue is over - Churchill defiant
As the last Allied soldier leaves Dunkirk, the British Prime Minister vows his forces "shall never surrender".

June 4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining until the end of the year.

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre - referred to in China as the June Fourth Incident to avoid confusion with two other Tiananmen ...

Monday June 4 2007 | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
We've given music a home' Lack of funds meant their staff camped on the roof, but after last week's CBS buyout, Last.fm's founders are the first British Web 2.0 millionaires ...

On-This-Day.com - June 4
The History of Today - On-This-Day.com: Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history, music history and Quote of the Day.

Work - Wednesday, June 4
Wednesday, June 4 Work Calendar «

Webcast Series: June 4, 2008
Archived Webcast of June 4, 2008, on helping employers prepare the workplace for an influenza pandemic.

4 June 2008: All care homes must look after the emotional needs of ...
4 June 2008: All care homes must look after the emotional needs of people with dementia, says the Mental Health Foundation

Toon Transfer Talk: June 4 | Newcastle United | nufc.co.uk | News ...
nufc.co.uk takes a look at latest rumours doing the rounds in this morning's papers ... This section of nufc.co.uk is merely a record of speculation and does not in any way reflect ...