4th June anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • Patience Strong (real name Winifred May) born 1907 (died 1990). Poet for the Daily Mirror from 1935 in rivalry with the Daily Sketch's prose-poet Wilhelmina Stitch.
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Gilbert Harding, probably the best known radio and television performer of the 1950s. Famously rude he appeared on What's My Line, The Brains Trust and Twenty Questions." more
• event
  • 1584
  • United States
  • "Sir Walter Raleigh established the first English colony in the New World, on Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina) – the so-called 'Lost Colony'." more
  • 1783
  • France
  • The first public demonstration of a hot air balloon by the Montgolfier brothers. more
  • 1792
  • Great Britain
  • "Puget Sound formally annexed for the British Crown by Captain George Vancouver," more
  • 1832
  • Great Britain
  • The Great Reform Act changes Parliamentary constituencies
  • 1859
  • Italy
  • "Second War of Italian Independence: Battle of Magenta the French narrowly beat the Austrians in Lombardy, northern Italy"
  • 1876
  • United States
  • Less than 3 1/2 days after leaving New York the Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco. more
  • 1919
  • United States
  • "The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by the US Congress, granting women the right to vote"
  • 1920
  • Romania
  • Transylvania was formally incorporated into Romania with signing of the Treaty of Trianon more
  • 1939
  • United States
  • "The SS St. Louis, carrying 963 Jewish refugees, was refused permission to land in Florida. (It returned to Europe where most of its passengers later died in concentration camps)" more
  • 1984
  • United States
  • The album Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen was released
  • 1989
  • China
  • "The Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China, ended violently as the Peoples Army killed hundreds of pro-democracy protesters"
  • 1989
  • Poland
  • Solidarity achieved a landslide victory in the Polish parliamentary elections more
  • 1998
  • United States
  • "Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role as an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people in 1995."
• Death
  • 1913
  • Great Britain
  • "Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby and dies" more