June 4 in history — What Happened Today in History

Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.

Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.

JVC 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.

Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.

Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.

Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.

Cold 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.

in Argentina assumes its first presidency Juan Domingo Perón.

World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505, the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.

A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim.

World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: The British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.

The 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 concentration camps.

Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.

The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.

Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.

Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

Leon Trotsky bans the planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents.

The 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 Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.

World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.

Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.

Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and also gives it a successful test run.

Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.

An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

Jordan Hugill, English footballer

Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer

Matt McIlwrick, New Zealand rugby league player

Ben Stokes, New Zealand-English cricketer

Rajiv van La Parra, Dutch footballer

Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur

Paweł Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower

Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey defenseman

Kimberley Busteed, Australian model

Tjaronn Chery, Dutch-born Surinamese footballer

Mollie King, English singer, former member of The Saturdays

Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (died 2011)

Anna-Lena Grönefeld, German tennis player

George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman (born 1919)

Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (born 1920)

Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1931)

Walt Arfons, American race car driver (born 1916)

Joey Covington, American drummer (born 1945)

Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (born 1946)

Will Wynn, American football player (born 1949)

Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect, designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (born 1925)

Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1946)

Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (born 1932)

Herb Reed, American violinist (born 1929)

Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1940)