June 4

Birthdays:

1975 ~ Angelina Jolie, American actress.

1936 ~ Bruce Dern, American actor.

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

1924 ~ Dennis Weaver (né William Dennis Weaver, d. Feb. 24, 2006), American actor.  He died at age 81.

1916 ~ Robert F. Furchgott (d. May 19, 2009), American biochemist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He died 16 days before his 93^rd birthday.

1907 ~ Rosalind Russell (né Catherine Rosalind Russell, d. Nov. 28, 1976), American actress.  She died of breast cancer at age 69.

1891 ~ Leopold Vietoris (d. Apr. 9, 2002), Austrian mathematician.  He died at age 110.

1885 ~ Arturo Rawson (d. Oct. 8, 1952), 26^th President of Argentina.  He served as President for only 2 days, from June 4, 1943 until June 6, 1943.  He died of a heart attack at age 67.

1877 ~ Heinrich Wieland (d. Aug. 5, 1957), German biochemist and recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He died at age 80.

1809 ~ Columbus Delano (d. Oct. 23, 1896), 11^th United States Secretary of the Interior.  He served under President Ulysses S. Grant from November 1870 until September 1875.  He was born in Vermont.  He died at age 87.

1738 ~ King George III of the United Kingdom (d. Jan. 29, 1820).  He died at age 81.

1697 ~ Jacob Emden (d. Apr. 19, 1776), German rabbi and Talmudic scholar.  He died at age 78.

1394 ~ Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. Jan. 5, 1430).  She died at age 35.  Her mother, Mary de Bohun died giving birth to Philippa.

Events that Changed the World:

1989 ~ Ali Khamenei (b. 1939) 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 (1815 ~ 1883) 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.

1760 ~ New England planters arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada to claim land taken from the Acadians.

1411 ~ French King Charles VI (1368 ~ 1422) granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening process of Roquefort Cheese.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Leonid Plyushch (b. Apr. 26, 1938), Ukrainian mathematician.  He died at age 77.

2014 ~ Don Zimmer (b. Jan. 17, 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. Jan. 23, 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. Aug. 1, 1930), 62^nd Secretary of State.  He served under President George H.W. Bush from December 1992 until January 1993.  He was a career diplomat beloved for his bluntness.  He died at age 80.

2010 ~ John Wooden (b. Oct. 14, 1910), American basketball player and college coach.  He died at age 99.

2002 ~ Fernando Belaúnde Terry (b. Oct. 7, 1912), President of Peru.  He died at age 89.

1989 ~ Dik Browne (né Richard Arthur Allan Browne, b. Aug. 11, 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. Sept. 2, 1878), French mathematician.  He died at age 94.

1968 ~ Dorothy Gish (b. Mar. 11, 1898), American silent screen actress.  She died at age 70 of pneumonia.

1941 ~ Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (b. Jan. 27, 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. June 29, 1880), American theatrical agent and former owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923.  He is best known for being responsible for selling Babe Ruth to the rival team, the New York Yankees.  He died of kidney failure 25 days before his 49^th birthday.

1918 ~ Charles Warren Fairbanks (b. May 11, 1852), 26^th Vice President of the United States.  He served under President Theodore Roosevelt from March 1905 until March 1909.  He died less than a month after his 66^th birthday.

1887 ~ William A. Wheeler (b. June 30, 1819), 19^th Vice President of the United States.  He served under President Rutherford B. Hayes from March 1877 until March 1881.  He was a graduate of the University of Vermont.  He died 26 days before his 68^th birthday.

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

1798 ~ Giacomo Casanova (b. Apr. 2, 1725), Italian adventurer and womanizer.  He died at age 73 years old.

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, however, the exact date of his birth is unknown.