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
- 1411 –King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
- 1760 –Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
- 1792 –Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1928 –President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
- 1940 –World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech.
- 1943 –A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
- 1944 –World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
- 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.
- 1965 –Duane Earl Pope robbed the Farmers’ State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime landed Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
- 1970 –Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973 –A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- 1975 –Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
- 1986 –Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 1988 –Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
- 1989 –Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- 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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