June 04

Saturday 04, 2005:

First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.

Wednesday 04, 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.

Thursday 04, 1998:

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

Tuesday 04, 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.

Sunday 04, 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.

Saturday 04, 1988:

1988 -The Canadian Heraldic Authority is founded.

Wednesday 04, 1986:

Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

Tuesday 04, 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.

Monday 04, 1973:

patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

Thursday 04, 1970:

Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Sunday 04, 1961:

Lake Bodom murders in Finland.

Sunday 04, 1944:

World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis powers capital to fall.

Friday 04, 1943:

Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

Thursday 04, 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.

Tuesday 04, 1940:

The Destroyer War Badge for Kriegsmarine was instituted.

Sunday 04, 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.

Thursday 04, 1936:

Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.

Friday 04, 1926:

Robert Earl Hughes sets current record for world's heaviest human.

Friday 04, 1920:

Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.

Wednesday 04, 1919:

Women's rights: The U.S. 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.

Monday 04, 1917:

The Order of the British Empire is introduced.

Wednesday 04, 1913:

Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's <!--name?---> horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.

Thursday 04, 1896:

Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed &ndash; the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).

Tuesday 04, 1878:

Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.

Sunday 04, 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.

Wednesday 04, 1862:

American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.

Saturday 04, 1859:

Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.

Thursday 04, 1812:

Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory previously known by that name was renamed the Missouri Territory.

Wednesday 04, 1794:

British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

Monday 04, 1792:

Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.

Sunday 04, 1769:

A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past.

Wednesday 04, 1760:

Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.

Thursday 04, 1615:

Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.

Tuesday 04, 1039:

Henry III becomes King of Germany.

Wednesday 04, -780:

The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.

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