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This day in history: 4 June

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359 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 4 June.
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2025: Eleven people are killed and 56 people are injured during a crowd crush incident outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India for the celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League victory.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Antoni Zawistowski

Christian feast day: Filippo Smaldone

Christian feast day: Francis Caracciolo

Christian feast day: June 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Optatus

Christian feast day: Petroc of Cornwall

Christian feast day: Quirinus of Sescia

Christian feast day: Saturnina

Emancipation Day or Independence Day, commemorates the abolition of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, and the independence of Tonga from the British protectorate in 1970. (Tonga)

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (International)

Memorials for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (International)

The Flag Day of the Finnish Defence Forces, also known as the birthday of C. G. E. Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland (Finland)

Events

2025Eleven people are killed and 56 people are injured during a crowd crush incident outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India for the celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League victory.

2023Four people are killed when a Cessna Citation V crashes into Mine Bank Mountain in Augusta County, Virginia.

2023Protests begin in Poland against the PiS government.

2020Death of Giovanni López: Protests over the death of Giovanni López Ramírez, who had died on 4 May while in custody, begin in Jalisco following the release of a video of his arrest going viral on social media, and inspired by the George Floy

2010Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.

2005The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.

1996The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.

1989In the 1989 Iranian supreme leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.

1989Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.

1989The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).

1989Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.

1988Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.

1986Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

1983Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.

1979Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.

1977JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.

1975Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.

1970Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.

1967Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.

1961Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the 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.

1946in Argentina assumes its first presidency Juan Domingo Perón.

1944World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505, the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

1944World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.

1943A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

1942World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Ma

1942World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

1940World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: The British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We

1939The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 973 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passenge

1932Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.

1928The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.

1920Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.

1919Leon Trotsky bans the planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents.

1919Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1917The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Ame

1916World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.

1913Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.

1912Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.

1896Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and also gives it a successful test run.

1878Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.

1876An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

Born on this day

2021Princess Lilibet of Sussex

2004Mackenzie Ziegler, American child actress, dancer, and recording artist

2001Choerry, South Korean singer and member of Loona

2001Takefusa Kubo, Japanese footballer

1999Drew Pavlou, Australian activist

1999Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress

1998Central Cee, British rapper and songwriter

1996Oli McBurnie, Scottish footballer

1993Aaron Nola, American baseball player

1993Annika Taylor, British-American cross-country skier

1993Jonathan Huberdeau, Canadian ice hockey player

1993Juan Iturbe, Paraguayan footballer

1992Jordan Hugill, English footballer

1991Ben Stokes, New Zealand-English cricketer

1991Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer

1991Matt McIlwrick, New Zealand rugby league player

1991Rajiv van La Parra, Dutch footballer

1990Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur

1989Paweł Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower

1988Kimberley Busteed, Australian model

1988Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey defenseman

1988Tjaronn Chery, Dutch-born Surinamese footballer

1987Mollie King, English singer, former member of The Saturdays

1985Anna-Lena Grönefeld, German tennis player

1985Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and actress

1985Evan Lysacek, American figure skater

1985Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (died 2011)

1985Lukas Podolski, German footballer

1985Oddvar Reiakvam, Norwegian politician

1984Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer

1984Henri Bedimo, Cameroonian footballer

1984Ian White, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Kento Handa, Japanese actor and singer

1984Rainie Yang, Taiwanese actress

1984Stuart Kettlewell, Scottish football manager and former player

1983Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer

1983Olha Saladuha, Ukrainian triple jumper

1983Romaric, Ivorian footballer

1982Abel Kirui, Kenyan runner

1982Matt Gilks, Scottish footballer

Died on this day

2025Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and Member of Parliament (born 1949)

2024John Blackman, Australian radio and television presenter (born 1947)

2024Parnelli Jones, American racing driver (born 1933)

2023Sulochana Latkar, Indian actress (born 1928)

2022George Lamming, Barbadian novelist (born 1927)

2021Clarence Williams III, American actor (born 1939)

2017Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (born 1931)

2016Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (born 1937)

2015Anne Warburton, British academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Denmark (born 1927)

2015Jabe Thomas, American race car driver (born 1930)

2015Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1938)

2015Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (born 1915)

2014Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1931)

2014George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (born 1919)

2014Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

2014Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (born 1920)

2013Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (born 1946)

2013Joey Covington, American drummer (born 1945)

2013Walt Arfons, American race car driver (born 1916)

2013Will Wynn, American football player (born 1949)

2012Herb Reed, American violinist (born 1929)

2012Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1946)

2012Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect, designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (born 1925)

2012Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (born 1932)

2011Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (born 1953)

2011Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1940)

2010John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)

2007Bill France Jr., American businessman (born 1933)

2007Clete Boyer, American baseball player and coach (born 1937)

2007Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician (born 1933)

Quote of the day

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

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