Let's check
it out Historical Events on 4 th June :
1039 -
Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor .
1133 - Rome
- Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman- German emperor
1647 -
English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce seizes King Charles I as a
prisoner during Second Civil War.
1745 -
Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats
Austrians and Saxons
1760 -
Great Upheaval : New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia,
Canada taken from the Acadians .
1769 - A
transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the
shortest such
interval in
history.
1805 -
Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
1831 -
National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen - Coburg as King of Belgium
1845 -
Mexican- US war start.
1916 -
Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
1917 - 1st
Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
1919 - US
marines invade Costa Rica.
1928 - President
of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents .
1932 -
Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France
1937 - Leon
Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France
1940 -
German forces enter Paris
1940 -
Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans "
1941 - Rep
of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
1942 -
Battle of Midway begins; Japan ' s 1 st major defeat in WW II
1944 - 5th
Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini ' s Fascist armies
1945 - US,
Russia , England & France agree to split occupied Germany
1956 -
Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1967 -
Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G - ALHG crashes in
HopesCarr,Stockport killing 72 passengers and crew .
1970 -
Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands ) declares independence from UK
1971 - J
Luns appointed secretary - general of NATO
1975 -
Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC
1978 -
Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
1979 -
South - African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 - Sri
Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1982 -
Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1984 - DNA
is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
1991 - 1st
post WW II non - communist government in Albania
1991 - Pope
John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
2012 - US
drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan , including high ranking al- Qaeda
official , AbuYahya al- Libi.
"If you don't know where you've come from, you
don't know where you are." - James Burke
"We learn from history that we never learn
anything from history." - Hegel
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