04 June History
- 1070 - Roqueford cheese is accidentally discovered in a cave near Roqueford, France, when a sheperd finds a lunch he had forgotten several days before.
- 1615 - The fortress at Osaka, Japan, falls to Shogun Leyasu after a six-month siege.
- 1647 - Parliamentary forces capture King Charles I and hold him prisoner.
- 1717 - The Freemasons are founded in London.
- 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
- 1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- 1805 - Tripoli is forced to conclude peace with the United States after a conflict over tribute.
- 1859 - The French army, under Napoleon III, takes Magenta from the Austrian army.
- 1864 - Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreat to the mountains in Georgia.
- 1911 - Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.
- 1918 - French and American troops halt Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.
- 1919 - The U.S. Senate passes the Women's Suffrage bill.
- 1940 - British complete the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk.
- 1943 - In Argentina, Juan Peron takes part in the military coup that overthrows Ramon S. Castillo.
- 1944 - The U-505 becomes the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.
- 1944 - Allied troops liberate Rome.
- 1946 - Juan Peron is installed as Argentina's president.
- 1953 - North Korea accepts the United Nations proposals in all major respects.
- 1960 - The Taiwan island of Quemoy is hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.
- 1972 - Black activist Angela Davis is found not guilty of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy.
04 June Birthdays
- 1738 - George III, English king (1760-1820).
- 1843 - Charles C. Abbott, American naturalist (Days Out of Doors).
- 1889 - Beno Gutenberg, seismologist.
- 1895 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy's delegate to League of Nations.
- 1904 - Alvah Bessie, screenwriter and novelist.
- 1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author (All I Really need to Know I learned in Kindergarten).
- 1945 - Anthony Braxton, jazz composer and saxaphonist.