About June 4
June 4, 2024 is the 156th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 4
- 1615 –Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1783 –The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (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.
- 1825 –French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
- 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.
- 1920 –Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
- 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, more than 200 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. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech.
- 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 Ramón Castillo.
- 1957 –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1970 –Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973 –A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- 1974 –During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
- 1988 –Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
- 1989 –The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.
- 1996 –The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
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