Historical Events on June 4

Events 1 - 200 of 202

• 781 BC Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
• 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
• 1357 The "Peace of Ath", signed by Count Louis II of Flanders and Duke Wenceslaus of Luxembourg ends the attempt of the succession of Brabant
• 1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain, the surviving Jews are sold into slavery
• 1487 Lord Lovell and John de la Pole's army land at Furness, Lancashire

• 1629 Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecks on Morning Reef off the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with 200 survivors (only 70 survive after three months due to mutiny and murders) [1]

• 1664 Dutch Stadtholder William Frederick conquers Dijlerschans
• 1666 Battle at Dunkirk: English vs Dutch fleet
• 1671 Pageant of 1671: French claim possession of lands "from the northern and western seas to the southern sea, including lands yet to be discovered" in ceremony at Jesuit Mission, Sault Saint, Canada [1]
• 1741 Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg

• 1756 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
• 1760 The Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive in Nova Scotia, Canada, to claim land 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 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned), covering 2km and lasting 10 minutes with an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000m
• 1784 Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist
• 1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
• 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 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
• 1824 First free press (without government approval) founded in Australia - the Hobart Town Gazette by ex-convict Andrew Bent [1]
• 1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
• 1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
• 1832 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
• 1838 First baseball-type game in Canada played at Beachville, Upper Canada
• 1850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized, in San Francisco, California
• 1850 Self-deodorizing fertilizer patented in England

• 1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tennessee
• 1868 Van Bosse/Fock government begins
• 1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrive 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

• 1889 Boston Beaneaters MLB pitcher John Clarkson is first to throw an "immaculate inning" (strikes out 3 batters on 9 pitches) in a 4-2 win over Philadelphia Quakers at South End Grounds
• 1892 Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die

• 1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
• 1912 State of Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law

• 1916 General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI)
• 1917 American men begin registering for the draft
• 1917 Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott awarded 1st Pulitzer Prize for Biography (Julia Ward Howe), the story of the authors. mother
• 1917 Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WWI
• 1918 French troops, with the aid of US troops, stop the Germans at Chateau-Thierry as they attempt to cross the Marne
• 1919 US Congress passes the Women's Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment
• 1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
• 1920 Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary
• 1926 Ignacy Mościcki becomes President of Poland (holds office till 1939)

• 1928 President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents
• 1932 Chilean coup led by Colonel Marmaduke Grove against President Juan Esteban Montero

• 1940 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
• 1940 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)

• 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 St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
• 1944 French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in London

• 1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas by the US Navy

• 1945 6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
• 1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
• 1947 US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act

• 1950 CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
• 1950 Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
• 1951 Pirate's' Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4

• 1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
• 1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union

• 1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation

• 1958 San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and Bob Schmidt are first in NL history to hit consecutive pinch-hit HRs in 10-9 win over the Milwaukee Braves

• 1961 US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria

• 1963 1st broadcast of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio

• 1964 Maldives adopts constitution
• 1964 Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48
• 1966 -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
• 1966 Novelty single "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70

• 1967 KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew

• 1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and 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 MLB San Diego Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
• 1970 Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from the United Kingdom
• 1970 WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1971 J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
• 1971 Oakland A's beat Washington Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
• 1971 Pakistani cricketer Zaheer Abbas scores 274 vs England at Edgbaston in 544 minutes
• 1972 Angela Davis, African American activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
• 1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain
• 1974 Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
• 1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
• 1974 Saudi Arabia announces that it will increase its participation in Aramco to 60 percent
• 1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina
• 1976 "The Architecture of Luis Barragán" exhibition opens at MOMA, New York bring the Mexican architect's work to international notice
• 1977 An estimated 20,000 Scottish football fans invade the Wembley Stadium pitch after Scotland beats England, 2-1; goalposts and advertising hoardings destroyed
• 1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
• 1978 32nd Tony Awards: "Da" (play) and "Ain't Misbehavin'" (musical) win

• 1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections

• 1979 South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
• 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

• 1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
• 1984 MLB Draft: New York Mets take Mechanicsburg Area Senior HS outfielder Shawn Abner at #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 American hurdler Edwin Moses' 122 race winning streak which extends to nearly 10 years ends when he is beaten by countryman Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain
• 1988 42nd Tony Awards: "M. Butterfly" (play) and "The Phantom of the Opera" (musical) win
• 1988 Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)

• 1989 2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000

• 1989 Beijing policeman shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
• 1989 Eastern Europe's first 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 Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway

• 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
• 1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania

• 1991 Robert S Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
• 1992 San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
• 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is signed in New York

• 1994 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
• 1995 49th Tony Awards: "Love! Valour! Compassion!" (play) & "Sunset Boulevard" (musical) win
• 1995 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
• 1995 New Zealand creates world record score for a Rugby Union international in thrashing Japan, 145-17 in the World Cup in Bloomfontein, RSA; Marc Ellis 6 tries, Simon Culhane 20 conversions
• 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" (play) and "Contact" (musical) win
• 2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace

• 2005 Panamanian jockey Eddie Castro sets a North American record with 9 wins on the 13-race card at Calder Race Course in Miami, Florida

• 2008 Stanley Cup Final, Civic Center, Pittsburgh, PA: Detroit Red Wings defeat Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-2 for a 4-2 series win; Red Wings' 11th Championship
• 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 MLB Draft: Puerto Rico Academy & HS shortstop Carlos Correa first pick by Houston Astros
• 2012 US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
• 2012 Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
• 2014 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
• 2015 Australian cricket batsman Adam Voges becomes the oldest player to hit a century on debut in 1st Test v West Indies in Roseau; 35-year-old Voges scores 130 not out during Australia's 9 wicket win

• 2018 Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigns amid huge protests against tax and price increases. King Abdullah appoints Omar Razzaz to replace him.

• 2019 Deforestation of the Amazon forest in Brazil the fastest for a decade as 740 square kilometers cleared in 30 days according to Brazilian space research institute
• 2019 Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case
• 2019 Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in work places trends with hashtag #KuToo
• 2019 Over 100,000 people mark the 30th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong and around the world
• 2019 Professional gambler James Holzhauer's 32-game winning streak ends on "Jeopardy", just short of Ken Jenning's record $2.52M earnings
• 2019 SF MLB manager Bruce Bochy reaches 1,000 win mark with the club as Giants beat Mets, 9-3 in NYC; second after legendary John McGraw to reach milestone

• 2020 State of Emergency declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle
• 2020 Thousands ignore a recent ban and mark the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong
• 2020 UN report criticizing human rights violations in the Philippines, including deaths of 8,000 during its war on drugs, a day after county's House of Representatives passed new anti-terrorism law
• 2021 Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country's devastating COVID-19 second wave, reporting nearly 9,000 daily cases late May
• 2022 WHO says Monkeypox now found in 27 countries where not already endemic - 780 in last three weeks. Accesses global risk as moderate. [1]

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