What are the important events that happened on June 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 4: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 4 is the 156^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 210 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 22, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 477,072 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontahexagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,183 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 4 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1825 –
  French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
• 1876 –
  An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• 1878 –
  Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 1912 –
  Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• 1928 –
  President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• 1942 –
  World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
• 1944 –
  World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
• 1989 –
  Solidarity’s 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.
• 1989 –
  The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.

Who were born on June 4?

• 1801 –
  James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
• 1881 –
  Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
• 1912 –
  Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
• 1930 –
  Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
• 1965 –
  Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
• 1970 –
  Izabella Scorupco, Polish actress
• 1976 –
  Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player
• 1977 –
  Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
• 1985 –
  Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
• 1992 –
  Brooke Vincent, British actress

Who died on June 4?

• 1463 –
  Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
• 1585 –
  Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
• 1875 –
  Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
• 1939 –
  Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
• 1942 –
  Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official (b. 1904)
• 1962 –
  Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
• 2001 –
  Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
• 2004 –
  Marvin Heemeyer, American muffler owner (b. 1952)
• 2007 –
  Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
• 2008 –
  Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)