June 4

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

Events

780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China
1039 - Henry II becomes King of Germany
1070 - Roquefort cheese is created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1760 - New England planters arrive to take land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians
1763 - At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain
1812 - War of 1812: The United States Congress votes for war against Britain
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 arrives in San Francisco, California only 83 hours after having left New York City
1878 - The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom
1892 - The Sierra Club is incorporated in San Francisco, California
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
1920 - The Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris
1936 - [[L�on Blum]] becomes Prime Minister of France
1940 - World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation is completed
1940 - German forces enter Paris
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway begins
1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom
1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel
1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing and are covered live on television
1989 - A succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions occurs in Eastern Europe
1999 - Noemi Dominguez, of Houston, Texas, is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is his sixth victim in his fifth incident.
1999 - Josephine Konvicka, of Fayette County, Texas, is murdered in a barn not far from Weimar, Texas by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is his seventh victim in his sixth incident.