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 155^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 22, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,748,995,200 seconds 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 ‘hectapentacontapentagon’ 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 258 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 4,548 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 4 Historical Events

• 1615 –
  Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
• 1792 –
  Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1913 –
  Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
• 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.
• 1944 –
  World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1998 –
  Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Who were born on June 4?

• 1801 –
  James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
• 1880 –
  Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1926 –
  Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became the heaviest known human (d. 1958)
• 1938 –
  Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
• 1949 –
  Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
• 1950 –
  George Noory, American radio personality
• 1956 –
  Martin Adams, English darts player
• 1966 –
  Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
• 1974 –
  Andrew Gwynne, British politician
• 1991 –
  Megan Prescott, British actress

Who died on June 4?

• 1798 –
  Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (b. 1725)
• 1922 –
  William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
• 1968 –
  Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1970 –
  Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1971 –
  Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1994 –
  Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman’s Hermits) (b. 1943)
• 2004 –
  Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
• 2008 –
  Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
• 2011 –
  Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)
• 2011 –
  Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander governor (b. 1940)