Today is Friday, June 4, the 155th day of 2010. There are 210 days left in the year.
1783 _ Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned)
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, N.Y.)
1940 _ German forces enter Paris
1942 _ Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II
1956 _ Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1984 _ Bruce Springsteen releases ``Born in the USA"
1989 _ Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese Premier Li Ping
1989 _ Eastern Europe's first somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland