About June 4
June 4, 2025 is the 155th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 258 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 4
- 1783 –The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
- 1792 –Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1878 –Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
- 1896 –Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- 1916 –World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
- 1919 –Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees 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.
- 1928 –President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
- 1943 –A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
- 1957 –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1961 –In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
- 1970 –Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1974 –During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
- 1988 –Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
- 1989 –Solidarity’s victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
- 1989 –The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.
- 1996 –The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
- 1998 –Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2001 –Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
- 2010 –Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
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