Today is Saturday, June 4, the 155th day of 2011. There are 210 days left in the year.
780 B.C. ― First total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
1647 ― British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
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
1927 ― First Ryders Cup (Golf), U.S. beats England 9-2
1929 ― George Eastman demonstrates first Technicolor movie (Rochester, N.Y.)
1956 ― Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1984 ― Bruce Springsteen releases ``Born in the USA"
1989 ― Eastern Europe's first somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland