Today In History: June 4th

[Seneca]

Today in history

On this date:

• In 1812, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.

• In 1878, Turkey turned Cyprus over to the British.

• In 1892, the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.

• In 1896, Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a "quadricycle," through the streets of Detroit.

• In 1940, the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ended.

• In 1942, the Battle of Midway began during World War II.

• In 1944, the U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome during World War II.

• In 1947, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act.

• In 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.

• In 1986, Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to spying for Israel. (He is serving a life prison term.)

• In 1989, hundreds, possibly thousands of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement.

[NewJeffCT]

1. thanks

I'll have to remind my wife about that last one...

[yellowdogintexas]

2. In 1948, my husband was born