June 4

Birthdays:

1975 ~ Angelina Jolie, American actress.

1936 ~ Bruce Dern, American actor.

1928 ~ Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist and author.

1916 ~ Robert F. Furchgott (d. 2009), American chemist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died at age 92.

1907 ~ Rosalind Russell (d. 1976), American actress.  She died at age 69.

1885 ~ Arturo Rawson (d. 1952), 26^th President of Argentina.  He died at age 67.

1877 ~ Heinrich Wieland (d. 1957), German biochemist and recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He died at age 80.

1738 ~ King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820).  He died at age 81.

1394 ~ Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430).  She died at age 35.  Her mother, Mary de Bohun died giving birth to Philippa.

Events that Changed the World:

2012 ~ The Diamond Jubilee Concert was held outside Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebration of serving 60 years on the throne.

1989 ~ Ali Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran following the death of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

1989 ~ The Tiananmen Square protest ended violently in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.  Over 240 individuals were killed in the protest.

1964 ~ The Beatles began their World Tour in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1943 ~ Argentine President Ramón Castillo (1873 ~ 1944) was ousted in a military coup .

1942 ~ The Battle of Midway in World War II began.

1939 ~ The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, was denied permission to land in Florida.  The ship was forced to return to Europe and more than 200 of its passengers were murdered in the Nazi concentration camps.

1919 ~ The United States Congress approved the 19^th Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women.  It was then sent to the States for ratification.

1917 ~ The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. The Prize is an award for achievement in journalism, literature, and musical composition.  Joseph Pulitzer established the award in his will.

1912 ~ Massachusetts became the first state to set a minimum wage for workers.

1855 ~ The United States Department of the Army sent Major Henry Wayne to the Middle East to procure camels for the US Camel Corps.  The camel experiment was not successful and the project was abandoned within 10 years.

1812 ~ Because Louisiana had been admitted into the Union, the area of land that had been called the Louisiana territory was renamed the Missouri territory.

1792 ~ Captain George Vancouver (1757 ~ 1798) claimed the Puget Sound for the Great Britain.

1411 ~ French King Charles VI granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening process of Roquefort Cheese.

1039 ~ Henry III of Germany became the Holy Roman Emperor.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Leonid Plyushch (b. 1938), Ukrainian mathematician.  He died at age 77.

2014 ~ Don Zimmer (b. 1931), American infielder, manager, and longtime coach of the Boston Red Sox.  He was the journeyman who became the face of baseball.  He died at age 83.

2014 ~ Chester Nez (b. 1921), the Navajo warrior who baffled the Japanese.  He was the last of the World War II Navajo code-talkers.  He died of kidney failure at age 93.

2011 ~ Lawrence Eagleburger (b. 1930), 62^nd Secretary of State.  He served under President George H.W. Bush.  He was a career diplomat beloved for his bluntness.

2010 ~ John Wooden (b. 1910), American basketball player and college coach.  He died at age 99.

2002 ~ Fernando Belaúnde Terry (b. 1912), 42^nd President of Peru.  He died at age 89.

1989 ~ Dik Browne (né Richard Arthur Allan Browne, b. 1917), American cartoonist.  He created such cartoons as Hägar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.  He died at age 71.

1973 ~ Maurice René Fréchet (b. 1878), French mathematician.  He died at age 94.

1968 ~ Dorothy Gish (b. 1898), American silent film star.  She died at age 70.

1941 ~ Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (b. 1859).  He was the grandson of British Queen Victoria.  He had abdicated the throne in 1918 and fled to the Netherlands where he lived until his death at age 82.

1929 ~ Harry Frazee (b. 1880), owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916-1923.  He died at age 48 of kidney failure.

1918 ~ Charles Warren Fairbanks (b. 1852), 26^th Vice President of the United States.  He served under President Theodore Roosevelt.

1887 ~ William A. Wheeler (b. 1819), 19^th Vice President of the United States.  He served under President Rutherford B. Hayes.

1801 ~ Frederick Mulhenberg (b. 1750), American minister and politician.  He served as the 1^st and 3^rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.  He died at age 51.

1798 ~ Giacomo Casanova (b. 1725), Italian adventurer and womanizer.  He died at age 73.

1394 ~ Mary de Bohun (d, 1369), English wife of King Henry IV of England.  She died before Henry ascended to the throne.  She died in childbirth at age 25 or 26.

1134 ~ Magnus I of Sweden (d. 1106).  The exact date of his birth is unknown.  He is believed to have been 27 or 28 at the time of his death.

1039 ~ Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor.  He served as the Holy Roman Emperor from March 1027 until his death at age 49 on this date 12 years later.