This day in history for 4th June: 1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1794 – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti. 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee. 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded 1919 – Womens rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. 1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents 1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps. 1940 – Winston Churchill delivers his famous We shall fight on the beaches speech. 1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. 1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley. 1961 – In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin. 1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the Peoples Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. Solidaritys victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations. A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. 2001 – Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace. 2004 – Marvin Heemeyers eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall. Birthdays: 1904 – Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (d. 1992) 1944 – Roger Ball, Scottish saxophonist and songwriter (Average White Band) 1961 – El DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and producer (DeBarge) 1968 – Al B. Sure!, American singer-songwriter and producer 1970 – Dave Pybus, English bass player and songwriter (ANATHEMA - official band page, Cradle of Filth) 1971 – Noah Wyle, American actor and producer 1974 – Stefan Lessard, American bass player (Dave Matthews Band) 1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter 1990 – Zac Farro, American drummer and singer (Paramore) And much birthday love to Arielle Krimotat, Dave OftheDead, Heidi Reis-griffin, Vanessa DeJongh, Lisa Mungo
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:36:51 +0000
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