04 June History


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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.