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Today in History
June 4

1070   Roqueford cheese is accidentally discovered in a cave near Roqueford, France, when a sheperd finds a lunch he had forgotten several days before.
1615   The fortress at Osaka, Japan, falls to Shogun Leyasu after a six-month siege.
1647   Parliamentary forces capture King Charles I and hold him prisoner.
1717   The Freemasons are founded in London.
1792   Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
1794   British troops capture Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1805   Tripoli is forced to conclude peace with the United States after a conflict over tribute.
1859   The French army, under Napoleon III, takes Magenta from the Austrian army.
1864   Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreat to the mountains in Georgia.
1911   Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.
1918   French and American troops halt Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.
1919   The U.S. Senate passes the Women's Suffrage bill.
1940   British complete the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk.
1943   In Argentina, Juan Peron takes part in the military coup that overthrows Ramon S. Castillo.
1944   The U-505 becomes the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.
1944   Allied troops liberate Rome.
1946   Juan Peron is installed as Argentina's president.
1953   North Korea accepts the United Nations proposals in all major respects.
1960   The Taiwan island of Quemoy is hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.
1972   Black activist Angela Davis is found not guilty of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy.

Born on June 4

1738   George III, English king (1760-1820).
1843   Charles C. Abbott, American naturalist (Days Out of Doors).
1889   Beno Gutenberg, seismologist.
1895   Dino Conte Grandi, Italy's delegate to League of Nations.
1904   Alvah Bessie, screenwriter and novelist.
1937   Robert Fulghum, American author (All I Really need to Know I learned in Kindergarten).
1945   Anthony Braxton, jazz composer and saxaphonist.

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