Argentina Military Coup Ousts Ramón Castillo, June 4, 1943
A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. Date: June 4, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. Date: June 4, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north. Date: June 4, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. Date: June 4, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day…
Cold War: 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. Date: June 4, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this…
Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England. Date: June 4, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1967 📅 On This Day (Today)
Tonga gains independence from the British Empire. Date: June 4, 1970 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1970 📅 On This Day (Today)
Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. Date: June 4, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium. Date: June 4, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅…
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. Date: June 4, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today)
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt. Date: June 4, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 4 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On…