THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― JUNE 4

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.

NATIONAL OLD MAID'S DAY 


781 BC ― The oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse. 


1391 ― A mob led by Archdeacon Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, the surviving Jews are sold into slavery. 

1647 ― English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War.


1666 ― The Four Day's Battle of Dunkirk: English versus the Dutch fleet.

1754 ― During the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War), a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia named George Washington begins construction of a makeshift Fort Necessity.


1769 ― A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in recorded history.


1792 ― Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.

1794 ― Congress passes the Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers.

1805 ― Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute. --Encyclopedia Britanica.com

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.

1892 ― Oil City and  Titusville, PA, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die.

1896 ― At approximately 4:00 a.m. on June 4, 1896, in the shed behind his home on Bagley Avenue in Detroit, Henry Ford unveils the “Quadricycle,” the first automobile he ever designed or drove. 


1916 ― General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI).

1917 ― Most Excellent Order of British Empire is inaugurated by King George V to recognize the efforts of his people during WWI.


1918 ― French troops, with the aid of US troops, stop the Germans at Chateau-Thierry as they attempt to cross the Marne.

1919 ― The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.


1929 ― George Eastman demonstrates the first technicolor movie in Rochester, NY.

1934 ― On this day in 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress to appropriate $52.5 million to battle economic and social disaster in the American Midwest caused in part by a series of droughts in the Great Plains region.

1940 ― The first night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2).

1944 ― The U.S. 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies during WWII.

1945 ― The U.S., Russia, Britain and France agree to split occupied Germany.


1946 ― Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed to date.

1947 ― The U.S. House of Representatives approves the Taft-Hartley Act addressing labor-management relations.


1956 ― Speech by Nikita Khrushchev criticizing Stalin made public.


1961 ― President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, meeting in Vienna, strike a bargain to support a neutral and independent Laos.

1967 ― The Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.

1972 ― Angela Yvonne Davis, a black militant, former philosophy professor at the University of California, and self-proclaimed communist, is acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping by an all-white jury in San Jose, California.

1974 ― Saudi Arabia announces that it will increase its participation in Aramco to 60 percent.

1984 ― DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal.


1989 ― Eastern Europe's first partial free elections in 40 years are held in Poland. Solidarity Party comes to power.


1989 ― Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States.

1991 ― The first post-WW II non-communist government takes over in Albania.


1992 ― USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp.


1998 ― Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.


2014 ― Ten Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are courts-martialed for providing arms and information to the Islamic terror group Boko Haram.


BORN TODAY

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From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.