The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his…

Leon Trotsky bans the Planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents. Date: June 4, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today)

Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. Date: June 4, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today)

Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. Date: June 4, 1920 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1920 📅 On This Day (Today)

The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents. Date: June 4, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1928 📅 On This Day (Today)

Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile. Date: June 4, 1932 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1932 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 973 German 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. Date: June 4, 1939 Read more on Wikipedia…

World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. Date: June 4, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…

World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim. Date: June 4, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on…

World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Date: June 4, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today)