What are the important events that happened on June 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 4 is the 156th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 22, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,624,320 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontahexagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac 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 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,183 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 4 Historical Events
- 1615 –Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1802 –Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
- 1896 –Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- 1920 –Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
- 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.
- 1986 –Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- 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.
Who were born on June 4?
- 1604 –Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1648)
- 1801 –James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
- 1912 –Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
- 1916 –Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
- 1937 –Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1942 –Bill Rowe, Canadian radio personality and politician
- 1947 –Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
- 1951 –Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist
- 1953 –Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician (d. 1979)
- 1956 –Keith David, American actor
Who died on June 4?
- 1135 –Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
- 1257 –Duke Przemysl I of Poland
- 1801 –Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
- 1928 –Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
- 1942 –Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official (b. 1904)
- 1971 –Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
- 1994 –Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
- 2007 –Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
- 2010 –John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
- 2011 –Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)
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