Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 4

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 * 1561 – The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by fire.
 * 1792 – Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy claimed the land around Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
 * 1913 – Emily Davison (pictured), an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by a horse owned by King George V at the Epsom Derby.
 * 1916 – World War I: Russian forces began their successful Brusilov offensive against the Central Powers.
 * 1920 – The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72 percent of its territory and 64 percent of its population with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The remaining Allied forces protecting the Dunkirk evacuation surrendered, ending the Battle of Dunkirk; in response, British prime minister Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he declared "We shall fight on the beaches".
 * 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway, a major battle of the Pacific War, began with a massive Japanese offensive on American forces on Midway Atoll.
 * 1967 – A chartered British Midland Airways aircraft crashed near Stockport, England, killing 72 of the 84 people on board.
 * 1975 – Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, one of the first laws in the United States guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to farmworkers.
 * 1977 – The Humboldt Park riot began in Chicago, resulting in three deaths, three cars in the Humboldt Park lagoon, and increased tension between the Chicago Police Department and the Puerto Rican community.
 * 1979 – Jerry Rawlings came to power in Ghana as chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.
 * 1987 – American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel.
 * 1989 – The People's Liberation Army suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving hundreds of people dead and wounded.
 * 1998 – Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
 * 2004 – In Granby, Colorado, U.S., Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer over a zoning dispute, destroying several buildings before committing suicide.
 * Born/died: | Przemysł I of Greater Poland |d|1257| George Heriot |b|1563|  Johan Rudolph Thorbecke |d|1872|John Bauer |b|1882| Eduard Mörike |d|1875| Paul Gondjout |b|1912|  W. H. R. Rivers |d|1922| Linda Martell |b|1941|  Angelina Jolie |b|1975| Leslie Averill |d|1981| Maria Bakalova |b|1996| Rodolfo Quezada Toruño |d|2012| Marguerite Patten |d|2015|