Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 4
This is a list of selected June 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Governor of California Jerry Brown in 1978
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Tonga (1970) | outdated |
| 1039 – Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his father, Conrad II. | needs more footnotes |
| 1615 – Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan. | refimprove |
| 1913 – Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby. | refimprove |
| 1928 – Zhang Zuolin, one of the major warlords of China, was assassinated by Japanese agents in Shenyang. The death was kept secret for the next two weeks. | refimprove |
| 1967 – A chartered aircraft owned by British Midland Airways crashed near Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, killing 72 of the 84 passengers and crew on board. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1940 – Second World War: The remaining Allied forces protecting the Dunkirk evacuation surrendered, giving the Germans a tactical victory in the Battle of Dunkirk.
- 1942 – The Battle of Midway, a major battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll.
- 1944 – A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505, which survives today as a museum ship at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
- 1975 – Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, the first law in the United States guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to farmworkers.
- 1989 – Following the death of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Assembly of Experts elected Ali Khamenei to be the Supreme Leader of Iran.
- 1998 – Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Notes
- Dunkirk evacuation appears on May 26, so Battle of Dunkirk should not appear in the same year.
June 4: Day of the Holy Spirit (Eastern Christianity, 2012); Day of National Unity in Hungary; Queen's Official Birthday in New Zealand (2012); Western Australia Day (2012)
- 1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver (pictured) claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
- 1920 – The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its territory and 64% of its population with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
- 1939 – The German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying 937 Jewish refugees seeking political asylum from Nazi persecution, was denied permission to land in the United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.
- 1987 – American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel.
- 1989 – The People's Liberation Army violently cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving at least 241 dead and 7,000 wounded, and causing widespread international condemnation of the Chinese government.
- 1996 – The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 failed, with the rocket self-destructing 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the control software—one of the most expensive computer bugs in history.