Today is Saturday, June 4, the 155th day of 2011. There are 210 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight:
On June 4, 1940, during World War II, the Allied military evacuation of more than 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended.
On this date:
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.
In 1784, opera singer Elizabeth Thible became the first woman to fly aboard a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, over Lyon, France.
In 1892, the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
In 1910, the Ballets Russes premiered its dance adaptation of the Rimsky-Korsakov suite “Scheherazade” in Paris.
In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification.
In 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.
In 1942, the Pacific Battle of Midway began during World War II.
In 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according “complete independence” to Vietnam.
In 1986, Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to deliver information related to the national defense to a foreign government, specifically Israel. (He is serving a life prison term.)
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