WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY JUNE 04

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1989 The Chinese government begins its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Hundreds are killed and thousands are arrested.

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1989 Poland holds the first free elections after World War II

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1984 Bruce Springsteen releases Born in the U.S.A.

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1972 Black activist Angela Davis is found not guilty of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy.

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1966 Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician.

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1960 The Taiwan island of Quemoy is hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.

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1953 North Korea accepts the United Nations proposals in all major respects.

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1946 Juan Peron is installed as Argentina’s president.

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1945 Anthony Braxton, jazz composer and saxaphonist.

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1944 Allied troops liberate Rome.

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1944 The U-505 becomes the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.

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1943 In Argentina, Juan Peron takes part in the military coup that overthrows Ramon S. Castillo.

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1940 The British complete the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk.

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1937 Robert Fulghum, American author (All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten).

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1919 The U.S. Senate passes the Women’s Suffrage bill.

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1918 French and American troops halt Germany’s offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.

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1911 Gold is discovered in Alaska’s Indian Creek.

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1904 Alvah Bessie, screenwriter and novelist.

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