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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2015

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  • Published Jun 3, 2015 5:03 pm KST
  • Updated Jun 3, 2015 5:03 pm KST

Today is Thursday, June 4, the 155th day of 2015. There are 201 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.)

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

1964 ― Beatles “World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark

1965 ― Rolling Stones release “Satisfaction"

1989 ― Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese Premier Li Peng

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