4 June
June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian
calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining.
Events
Up to 1899
1900-1949
- 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 - Order of the British Empire introduced
- 1919 - Women's rights: The
U.S. Congress approved 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 worlds heaviest human.
- 1936 - Léon Blum becomes Prime
Minister of France.
- 1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying a cargo of 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida 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 evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
- 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.
- 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 had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of an Axis nation to
fall.
1950-1999
Births
Up to 1899
- 470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher
(d. 399 BC)
- 1489 - Anthony II of Lorraine, 'Il Buono', Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
- 1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
- 1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian scientific editor, astronomer (d. 1832)
- 1801 - Sir James
Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
- 1867 - C.G.E. Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief of Finland during the Civil War in Finland (1918)
and World War II, later President of Finland (d. 1951)
- 1867 - Alfred
Vierkandt, sociologist (d. 1953)
- 1877 - Heinrich Wieland,
German biochemist (d. 1957)
- 1882 - Karl Valentin, comedian and author (d. 1948)
- 1887 - Tom Longboat, marathon runner and World War I despatch runner (d. 1949)
1900-1949
- 1907 (or 1908 or 1912) - Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1910 - Robert
Anderson, economic advisor to President Dwight D.
Eisenhower
- 1915 - Heinrich Tenhumberg, theologian, bishop of Münster (d. 1979)
- 1919 - Robert Merrill,
American baritone (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Dennis Weaver, American
actor
- 1926 - Alfredo Di
Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
- 1928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer,
German-American sex therapist, author
- 1929 - Günter Strack, actor (d. 1999)
- 1932 - John Drew
Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
- 1936 - Bruce Dern, American
actor
- 1937 - Freddy Fender, American
country musician
- 1944 - Michelle
Phillips, American actress, singer
- 1945 - Gordon Waller, musician ("Peter and
Gordon")
- 1947 - Viktor Klima, Austrian
Chancellor
1950-1999
- 1952 - Parker Stevenson,
American actor, director
- 1956 - Keith David, American
actor
- 1956 - John
Hockenberry, journalist
- 1962 - Lindsay Frost, actress
- 1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian
motorcycle racer
- 1966 - Cecilia Bartoli,
Italian opera singer
- 1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, mathematician
- 1971 - Noah Wyle, American actor
- 1972 - Derian Hatcher,
American hockey player
- 1975 - Angelina Jolie,
American actress
- 1975 - Robert Shaw, publisher
- 1977 - Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
Deaths
1000-1899
1900-1999
- 1928 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
- 1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American
jazz musician (b. 1900)
- 1941 - Kaiser
Wilhelm II, last German emperor (b. 1859)
- 1942 - Reinhard
Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904)
- 1951 - Serge
Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
- 1968 - Dorothy Gish, American
actress (b. 1898)
- 1973 - Maurice
René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1983 - Ivan Tors, producer, writer, animal trainer
- 1990 - Stiv Bators, American
musician ("The Dead Boys") (b. 1949)
- 1999 - Noemi Dominguez, schoolteacher
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
June 3 - June 5 - May 4 - July 4 -- listing of all days
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