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 156^th 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.

June 4 Historical Events

• 1760 –
  Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
• 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.
• 1876 –
  An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• 1878 –
  Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1996 –
  The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
• 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.

Who were born on June 4?

• 1665 –
  Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
• 1899 –
  Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
• 1953 –
  Linda Lingle, 6th Governor of Hawaii
• 1969 –
  Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
• 1972 –
  Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
• 1977 –
  Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
• 1977 –
  Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
• 1979 –
  Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
• 1981 –
  Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
• 1991 –
  Megan Prescott, British actress

Who died on June 4?

• 1039 –
  Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1135 –
  Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
• 1394 –
  Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b. c 1369)
• 1463 –
  Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
• 1872 –
  Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
• 1922 –
  William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
• 1973 –
  Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
• 2001 –
  John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
• 2007 –
  Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
• 2010 –
  John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)