June 4

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2006 Calendar

June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining.

1 Births
2 Deaths
3 Events
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

[edit] Births

1738 - King George III of Great Britain (died 1820)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (died 1897)
1867 - C.G.E. Mannerheim, President of Finland (died 1951)
1937 - Mort Zuckerman, magazine editor, publisher, and real estate businessperson
1975 - Angelina Jolie, actor

[edit] Deaths

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (born (about) 990)
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland (born (about) 1220)
1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1582)
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover (born 1725)
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1750)
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (born 1798)
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (born 1804)
1928 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (born 1873)
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American jazz musician (born 1900)
1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (born 1859)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (born 1904)
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (born 1874)
1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (born 1878)
1983 - Ivan Tors, producer, writer, animal trainer
1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician ("The Dead Boys") (born 1949)
2001 - King Dipendra of Nepal (born 1971)
2001 - John Hartford, American musician, composer (born 1937)
2002 - Fernando Belaunde Terry, Peruvian politician, president of Peru (born 1912)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (born 1934)

[edit] Events

780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
1039 - Henry III becomes King of Germany.
1615 - 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 the historical past.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.
1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory previously known by that name was renamed the Missouri Territory.
1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an 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 having left New York City.
1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1896 - Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed – the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).
1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, 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 for a 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.
1917 - The Order of the British Empire is introduced.
1919 - Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee 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.
1926 - Robert Earl Hughes sets current record for world's heaviest human.
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 die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published.
1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
1940 - The Destroyer War Badge for Kriegsmarine was instituted.
1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by 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 German submarine U-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 Allies, the first Axis powers capital to fall.
1961 - Lake Bodom murders in Finland.
1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 - patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 - Baseball: The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans.
1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1988 -The Canadian Heraldic Authority is founded.
1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing and are covered live on television.
1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.
1989 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1991 - Britain's Conservative government announces that some British 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.
2003 - U.S. lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigns as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.
2005 - First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.

[edit] Holidays and observances

Feast day of St Francis Caracciolo
Feast day of Saint Petrock of Cornwall
International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day
Tonga - National Day
Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday)