Today is Monday, June 4, the 156th day of 2012. 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)
1919 ― Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1929 ― George Eastman demonstrates first Technicolor movie (Rochester, N.Y.)
1942 ― Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II
1946 ― Largest solar prominence (300,000 mile/500,000 km) observed
1965 ― Rolling Stones release ``Satisfaction"
1989 ― Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese Premier Li Ping
1989 ― Eastern Europe's first somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland