June 4 in history
Events on June 4
Notable events that happened on June 4 in past years.
- 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.
Wikipedia article: Crowd collapses and crushes - 2010
Falcon 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.
Wikipedia article: Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit - 1989
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
Wikipedia article: 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - 1986
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
Wikipedia article: Jonathan Pollard - 1975
Governor 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.
Wikipedia article: Governor of California - 1946
in Argentina assumes its first presidency Juan Domingo Perón.
Wikipedia article: Argentina - 1942
World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Midway - 1932
Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
Wikipedia article: Marmaduke Grove - 1919
Leon Trotsky bans the planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents.
Wikipedia article: Leon Trotsky - 1912
Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
Wikipedia article: Massachusetts - 1862
American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
Wikipedia article: American Civil War - 1812
Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
Wikipedia article: Louisiana - 1784
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres (2.5 mi) in 45 minutes, and reaches an estimated 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in altitude.
Wikipedia article: Élisabeth Thible - 1615
Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 713
The imperial official Artemius is chosen as Byzantine emperor the day after the blinding of previous emperor Philippicus. Artemisius chooses the name of Anastasius II and announces his adherence to Chalcedonian Christianity.
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