TUESDAY, June 4, 2024

1896-Henry takes his first Ford through streets of Detroit

1919-Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill

1929-George Eastman demonstrates first technicolor movie (Rochester NY)

1942-Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II

1944-5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1946-Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed

1956-Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public

1970-Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1982-Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon

1986-Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court

1989-Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping

1989-Eastern Europe's first somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland

1990-Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy