June 4th
Today in America's Present Past
1756 | Civil Rights: Quakers leave the assembly of Pennsylvania over the legislature’s decision to fund militia fighting in Indian Wars.
1850 | Publisher John Blair Scribner was born.
1873 | Indian Wars: America’s victory in the Modoc War.
1887 | POTUS: Vice President William A. Wheeler died.
1889 | Entrepreneur Henry Phillips was born.
1896 | Entrepreneur Henry Ford drives his automobile through the streets of Detroit, Michigan, for the first time.
1918 | POTUS: Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks died.
1918 | WWI: U.S. forces aided in the defeat of the Germans at Chateau-Thierry.
1919 | Congress: The Women's Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment, is passed.
1928 | Educator Ruth Westheimer was born.
1932 | Actor John Drew Barrymore was born.
1942 | WWII: Battle of Midway begins.
1944 | WWII: U.S forces liberate Rome, Italy.
1947 | Congress: The House of Representatives approves the Taft-Hartley Act.
1961 | Cold War: President Kennedy and Soviet leader Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria.
1975 | Actress Angelina Jolie was born.
1990 | Entrepreneur Evan Spiegel was born.
2005 | Activist Jean O'Leary died.