On This Day: 4 June

4 June in Indian history

• 2025A crowd crush outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League title killed 11 people and injured 56 others.India
• 1974Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians hosted Ten-Cent Beer Night, but had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to rioting by drunken fans.India

4 June in world history

• 2010Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
• 1989The People's Liberation Army suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving hundreds of people dead and wounded.
• 1988Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• 1977JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.
• 1975Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, one of the first laws in the United States guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to farmworkers.
• 1961Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
• 1944World War II: A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505.
• 1943A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
• 1942World War II: The Battle of Midway, a major battle of the Pacific War, began with a massive Japanese offensive on American forces on Midway Atoll.
• 1940Second World War: The remaining Allied forces protecting the Dunkirk evacuation surrendered, ending the Battle of Dunkirk; in response, British prime minister Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he declared "We shall fight on the beaches".
• 1939The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 973 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi
• 1917The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and P
• 1916World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
• 1913Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by a horse owned by King George V at the Epsom Derby.
• 1862American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1825General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York, during his visit to the United States.

Born on 4 June

• 1974Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian chef (died 2012)India
• 1971Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1959Anil Ambani, Indian businessman and Chairman of Reliance InfrastructureIndia
• 1921Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)
• 1904Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (died 1992)India
• 1744Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (died 1780)

Died on 4 June

• 2023Sulochana Latkar, Indian actress (born 1928)India
• 1931Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (born 1853–54)
• 1472Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet (born 1402)
• 1135Emperor Huizong of Song (born 1082)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 4 June in history?

2025: A crowd crush outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League title killed 11 people and injured 56 others. 2010: Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. 1989: The People's Liberation Army suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving hundreds of people dead and wounded. 1988: Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.

What happened on 4 June in Indian history?

2025: A crowd crush outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Indian Premier League title killed 11 people and injured 56 others. 1974: Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians hosted Ten-Cent Beer Night, but had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to rioting by drunken fans.

Which famous people were born on 4 June?

Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian chef (died 2012) (1974); Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1971); Anil Ambani, Indian businessman and Chairman of Reliance Infrastructure (1959); Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (died 2016) (1921).

Which day is observed on 4 June?

The Flag Day of the Finnish Defence Forces, also known as the birthday of C. G. E. Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland (Finland); Emancipation Day or Independence Day, commemorates the abolition of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, and the independence of T; International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (International); Trianon Treaty Day (Romania); Memorials for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (International).