Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 4

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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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Osaka Castle
Midway Atoll
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German submarine U-505
George Vancouver
Emily Davison
Governor of California Jerry Brown in 1978

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Independence Day in Tonga (1970)	refimprove section
Day of National Unity in Hungary;	refimprove
1039 – Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his father, Conrad II.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1615 – The Siege of Osaka concluded as forces under the Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle.	Siege: needs more footnotes and date not in article; Castle: refimprove
1784 – Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covered 4 kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).	stubby
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
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.	unreferenced section
1989 – Following the death of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Assembly of Experts elected Ali Khamenei to be the Supreme Leader of Iran.	neutrality issues
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.	refimprove section

Eligible

1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departed New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
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.
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 – World War II: A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505.
1961 – U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev unsuccessfully met in Vienna to discuss numerous issues in the relationship between their countries.
1967 – A British Midland Airways chartered aircraft crashed near Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, killing 72 of the 84 passengers and crew on board.
1975 – Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, one of the first laws in the United States guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to farmworkers.
1977 – The Humboldt Park riot began in Chicago, resulting in three deaths, three cars in the Humboldt Park lagoon, and increased tension between the Chicago Police Department and the Puerto Rican community.
1987 – American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel.
1989 – The People's Liberation Army suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving many dead and wounded.
1998 – Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 – In Granby, Colorado, U.S., Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer over a zoning dispute, destroying several buildings before committing suicide.
Born/died: Przemysł I of Greater Poland (d. 1257) | Philippa of England (b. 1394) | George Heriot (b. 1563) | Miguel de Azcuénaga (b. 1754) | Eduard Mörike (d. 1875) | W. H. R. Rivers (d. 1922) | Angelina Jolie (b. 1975) | Marguerite Patten (d. 2015)

Notes

Dunkirk evacuation appears on May 26, so Battle of Dunkirk should not appear in the same year.
Tank Man appears on June 5, so Tiananmen Square protests should not appear in the same year.

June 4: Anniversary of Khomeini's Death in Iran (1989)

Roquefort cheese

1411 – King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening of Roquefort cheese (example pictured).
1561 – The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by fire, probably caused by lightning.
1920 – The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72 percent of its territory and 64 percent of its population with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
1940 – Second World War: The remaining Allied forces protecting the Dunkirk evacuation surrendered, ending the Battle of Dunkirk; in response, British prime minister Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he declared "We shall fight on the beaches".
1974 – Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians hosted Ten Cent Beer Night, but had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to rioting by drunken fans.

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