4 June
Notable Births
Mackenzie Ziegler
b. 2004
American singer and actress (born 2004)
Takefusa Kubo
b. 2001
Japanese footballer (born 2001)
Kim So-hyun
b. 1999
South Korean actress (born 1999)
Drew Pavlou
b. 1999
Australian political activist (born 1999)
Central Cee
b. 1998
British rapper (born 1998)
Oli McBurnie
b. 1996
Scottish footballer (born 1996)
Jonathan Huberdeau
b. 1993
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Juan Iturbe
b. 1993
Paraguayan footballer (born 1993)
Aaron Nola
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Annika Taylor
b. 1993
British-American cross-country skier
Jordan Hugill
b. 1992
English footballer
Lorenzo Insigne
b. 1991
Italian footballer (born 1991)
Matt McIlwrick
b. 1991
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Ben Stokes
b. 1991
English cricketer (born 1991)
Rajiv van La Parra
b. 1991
Dutch professional footballer (born 1991)
Evan Spiegel
b. 1990
American business magnate (born 1990)
Paweł Fajdek
b. 1989
Polish hammer thrower (born 1989)
Matt Bartkowski
b. 1988
American ice hockey player (born 1988)
Tjaronn Chery
b. 1988
Surinamese footballer (born 1988)
Angelina Jolie
b. 1975
American actress (born 1975)
Notable Deaths
Marc Garneau
d. 2025
Canadian astronaut and politician (1949–2025)
John Blackman
d. 2024
Australian radio and television presenter (1947–2024)
Parnelli Jones
d. 2024
American racing driver (1933–2024)
Sulochana Latkar
d. 2023
Indian actress (1928–2023)
George Lamming
d. 2022
Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet (1927–2022)
Clarence Williams III
d. 2021
American actor (1939–2021)
Juan Goytisolo
d. 2017
Spanish writer, poet and novelist
Marguerite Patten
d. 2015
English food writer and broadcaster
Leonid Plyushch
d. 2015
Ukrainian mathematician (1938–2015)
Jabe Thomas
d. 2015
American racing driver
Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman
d. 2014
British judge
Don Zimmer
d. 2014
American baseball player and manager (1931–2014)
Joey Covington
d. 2013
American drummer (1945 – 2013)
Hermann Gunnarsson
d. 2013
Icelandic footballer (1946–2013)
Peter Beaven
d. 2012
New Zealand architect (1925–2012)
Pedro Borbón
d. 2012
Dominican baseball player (1946–2012)
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño
d. 2012
Guatemalan Catholic cardinal (1932–2012)
Herb Reed
d. 2012
American R&B singer (1928–2012)
Juan Francisco Luis
d. 2011
3rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
Emperor Huizong of Song
d. 1135
Emperor of China from 1100 to 1126
On This Day in History
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2025
Eleven people are killed and 56 people are injured during a crowd crush incident outside M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India for the celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League victory.
Crowd collapses and crushes
2023
Protests begin in Poland against the PiS government.
2023 Polish protests
2023
Four people are killed when a Cessna Citation V crashes into Mine Bank Mountain in Augusta County, Virginia.
Cessna Citation V
2010
Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit
2005
The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș
1998
Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Terry Nichols
1996
The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
Ariane 5
1989
In the 1989 Iranian supreme leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 Iranian supreme leader election
1989
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
1989
Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
1989
Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
Ufa train disaster
1988
Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
RDX
1986
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
Jonathan Pollard
1983
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.
Gordon Kahl
1979
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
Flight lieutenant
1977
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.
JVC
1975
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.
Governor of California
1970
Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.
Tonga
1967
Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
Canadair North Star
1961
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.
Cold War