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June 4: National Cheese Day: -- Not to be
confused with other popular cheese related holidays like grilled
cheese day, cheesecake day, or mac and cheese day -- this day is
in reverence of the queen of all dairy, the big cheese! Cheese
making is an ancient, some might even say sacred, craft. So
ancient in fact it predates recorded history. It is speculated
that the magic of cheese making began somewhere around 8000BCE
shortly after the domestication of animals. Archeological digs
have found evidence of cheese around the world including strainers
coated in milk-fat molecules in Kuyavia, Poland dated around
5500BCE, murals in Egypt dated at 2000BCE, and an artifact of
preserved cheese in Xinjiang, China believed to be more than 3,000
years old! European Imperialism took their styles of cheese
through Asia, sub saharan Africa, and eventually to the Americas.
The most popular cheese of all is (obviously) mozzarella. This
delicious and pizza topping cheese was first created near Naples
from the rich milk of water buffalos. At the time, it rarely left
its home near Naples, as it was made from pasteurized milk, and a
lack of refrigeration meant it had a very short shelf life. As
both cheese technology and refrigeration systems advanced, this
delicious cheese left the southern region of Italy and found
itself traveling around the world. There are two types of
mozzarella produced within the United States - low moisture and
high moisture. Low moisture mozzarella has a moisture content less
than 50% while high moisture has a content of over 52%. Low
moisture is made specifically for transportation and mass
production as the lack of moisture gives it a longer shelf life.
Today, cheese dishes can be found on every continent served
savory, sweet, melted, deep fried, and even chilled in ice cream.
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June 4: National Cognac Day: -- Invites
you to have a laid-back day whilst enjoying one of the finest
alcoholic drinks. Cognac, which originates from a town of the same
name in France, is a type of brandy that many enjoy due to its
distilled and fine taste. The beverage speaks of a splendor-rich
atmosphere in which conversations are punctuated with
sophisticated and intellectual topics. Like all things
magnificent, cognac, too, has specific standardizations that must
be met in order for a brandy to even be recognized as cognac in
the first place. For example, a true cognac must always come from
the vineyards of the six certified regions in France. Cognac's
origins date all the way back to the 16th century. Dutch settlers
came to Cognac, a French region, to buy wood, wine, and salt.
However, a problem cropped up when it came to exporting the wine
back home. The preservation method had to suit the length of the
journey as well as the time it took to be sold and consumed later
on. Seeing this, the settlers began preserving the wine by
distilling it with eau-de-vie. While this method worked, the
settlers realized that distilling it twice made for a much finer
and tastier product. Thus, brandy was invented. While brandy is
made all over the world, only the brandy coming out of the six
designated areas of France can be called cognac. The Cognac region
itself covers two different regions in Western France - one is
Charente-Maritime and the other is Charente. The six areas are
divided according to the aging quality and potential. There are
certain laws and measures that must be abided by for a brandy to
be labeled as cognac, and all such rules are controlled by the
Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC). First and
foremost, only specific types of grapes have to be used to make
cognac, and one of the most common types of grapes to be used is
called Ugni Blanc. Once the wine is made, it must be distilled in
an 'alambic charentais', which is basically a copper pot with a
boiler and serpentine condensation tube. Later on, the cognac has
to be fermented and stored in special French oak barrels for at
least 30 months, although many wineries age the cognac for more
than 30 months. The longer the cognac ferments, the more
complexities and aromas it develops. Cognac's age is determined
through an unofficial grading system - for example, VS (Very
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June 4: National Hug Your Cat Day: -- One
of those pleasingly straightforward holidays, the intention is not
for the day to be complicated or over thought. Quite simply, it is
a day in which cat owners everywhere are encouraged to hug their
cats. It's an opportunity to give back to all the cats in the
world and shower them with love and attention. The more dedicated
amongst them will not need this encouragement, of course, but it
is always good to be reminded of our feline friends. While a cat
owner may love his or her cat immensely, it's easy to forget to
show a furry friend how much love there is to go around when
managing a busy schedule and family. It's best to start by petting
the cat softly and having it warm up before going in for a hug. Be
gentle and approachable, so the cat is more likely to welcome the
embrace. The obvious downside to the day is that people without
cats may be left out. This need not be the case; however - it
should be straightforward enough to simply adapt it into "Hug
Someone Else's Cat Day." It should be easy to find a friend
or family member with a cat and give their pet a huge embrace to
show the animal some additional love on this day. Be glad to know
that someone who suffers from allergies need not be left out
either. These people can watch cute and funny cat videos on
YouTube as a way to participate in the festivities. For thousands
of years, cats and humans have been getting along and building a
closer and symbolic relationship. Cats were first domesticated in
the Near East around 7500 BC. In the Ancient Egyptian days, cats
were worshipped and glorified. They were revered and spoiled by
the people. Does this sound familiar to how cats are treated
nowadays too? Cats were and continue to be seen as symbols of
grace and poise. Some studies show that cat purring can help to
reduce stress levels and make one feel calmer. Therefore, it makes
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June 4: International Corgi Day: -- The
corgi is a dog breed with short legs, a long body, and a huge
heart. These dogs' roots can be traced to Wales where they were
bred to herd larger animals. The combination of their short height
and agility made them the top contenders for herding animals.
Corgis are also known as the 'dwarf' dog. The main aim of
International Corgi Day is to bring love and attention to this
lovable dog breed. A focus is also put on rescuing and rehoming
corgis that have been abandoned by their owners. It was Queen
Elizabeth II's Of England's favorite dog, and she famously owned
and loved many of them! The first International Corgi Day was
celebrated by the Omaha Corgi Crew. The soon-to-be nonprofit
organization was established in December 2011. It started out as
the passion project of a group of four friends who wanted to bring
more attention to corgis. Today, the organization advocates for
the rescue and adoption of corgis. Since it believes that all
'doggos' are great companions, the Omaha Corgi Crew also takes
part in fundraising drives, not just for corgis, but other dogs
too. The history of corgis can be traced back to around the 12th
century when Flemish weavers traveled to Wales to reside there.
The Pembroke Welsh corgi is most associated with the weavers
because it is due to them that there was an increase in the
population of this particular corgi breed. The Cardigan Welsh
corgi is another common corgi breed, but it is heavier and bigger
than the Pembroke breed. The Cardigan breed is also associated
more with Norse settlers. Either way, both breeds of the Welsh
corgis were used as herding dogs. They were known as 'heelers'
because of their short stature and quick agility that allowed them
to easily maneuver between large groups of bigger animals. Corgis
would nip at the heels of their herding animals to make them move
faster. The dogs are also known as the 'dwarf' dog or the 'cur'
dog, with the latter name coming from the Nordic word 'kurra'
meaning 'to growl.' There's also some interesting lore based on
corgis. One such ancient story suggests that corgis came to humans
when two human children stumbled upon a fairy funeral in the
woods. The mourning fairies gave two corgi puppies to the
children. The line of rougher fur at the base of the corgi's
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June 4: International Day Of Innocent
Children Victims Of Aggression: -- Acknowledges the pain suffered
by children throughout the world who are victims of physical,
mental, and emotional abuse. It is also an incentive to recommit
the international community to the goal of ending all forms of
violence against children. Initially prompted by the struggles of
Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of the 1982 Lebanon War,
the resolution that birthed the holiday nonetheless seeks to end
aggression and protect children's rights in every other
conflict-ridden region of the world. The war that led to the
enactment of the Convention on Child Rights and ultimately the
founding of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression started in June 1982 when Israel Defense Forces invaded
southern Lebanon, following an assassination attempt on its
ambassadors from within the country. The adoption of the holiday
came shortly afterward at an emergency meeting of the United
Nations General Assembly on August 19, 1982, which was called out
of fear for the growing number of civilian casualties, including
children. Members were appalled by the great number of innocent
Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel's acts of
aggression. The four-month war led the United Nations General
Assembly to enact and adopt a Resolution on the Rights of the
Child in 1997. It was an event that was considered a landmark
development in the effort to improve the protection of children in
conflict situations when it became the most widely ratified
international human rights treaty in history. In recent years
following reports from the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (U.N.O.D.C.) - the organization tasked with initiatives to
end violence against children; the number of violations of the
United Nations Conventions on Child Rights has increased in many
conflict-riddled regions of the world, making the purpose and the
observance of the holiday even more important now. Given that
violence often causes long-lasting physical and mental harm that
follows into adulthood and stunts a child's development, the
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June 4: National Old Maid's Day: -- Sheds
light on the single and childless women over the usual age for
marriage. Initially, the 'old maid' was considered derogatory as
it was used to mock women who were neither married nor had a
child. In the old days, people had strict views of the roles a
woman should fulfill in order to shape society and future
generations. It is because of such societal expectations that
single and childless women faced difficult times. However, as
times progressed and situations started changing, the term 'old
maid' gained a much more positive meaning. Today, the day is
celebrated in honor of women who chose to focus on themselves as
individuals. The first National Old Maids Day was celebrated back
in 1948. The idea for the day came to Marion Richards from
Jeffersonville. WWII had just come to an end and 16 million
soldiers were returning home. Many marriages and relationships
were put on pause because of the war, but the return signaled a
new beginning. The period after WWII ended recorded some of the
highest numbers of marriages taking place in the country. While it
was definitely a cause for full-blown celebrations, there were
many women who were left partnerless because their beaus hadn't
returned from the war. Out of the 16 million American soldiers,
420,000 never returned. These women who never married because they
were waiting for their lovers to return (and never did) were
honored by Marion Richards. Richards held the first Old Maids
gathering in which the unmarried and childless women were
celebrated and appreciated for their contributions to churches,
schools, hospitals, offices, and the general society. In the 21st
century, times have changed immensely, and women are less scorned
for their choices to pursue careers and their own betterment over
having a husband and children. Yet, many women still face
prejudices and the burden of societal stigma if they do not marry
and have children 'in time'. Women, as opposed to men, therefore,
are more expected to start a family. But National Old Maids Day
refuses to let women bow down to such expectations. Instead, the
focus is shifted to leading a life of free will, filled with
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June 4: World Day For Assistive
Technology: -- Innovative devices empower individuals with
disabilities, enhancing independence, accessibility, and overall
quality of life. Assistive technologies (AT) are products, systems
and equipment that help people who have disabilities with things
they need to do everyday such as learning, working and living.
These technologies include a wide range of devices and systems,
such as Braille, screen reading software, text-to-speech, large
print materials, hearing aids, reading guides and much more. While
there are at least 2.5 billion people around the globe who need
assistive technology to help them thrive, only about 10% of people
in low income countries are able to afford it. This is in
comparison to the 90% of people in higher income countries who
have access to assistive technologies. World Day for Assistive
Technology was founded to help draw attention to this urgent need
and get more people involved in making a difference! The first
World Day for Assistive Technology was scheduled for 2024 when it
was founded through the efforts of the organization called Unlock
the Everyday. This group of concerned people is working hard to
make sure that people all over the world who need assistive
technology can get access to it, even if they are in low income
countries. This day is here to encourage communities, policymakers
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June 4: National SAFE Day: -- A reminder
to keep our loved ones safe and sound at all times. These safety
tips are in line with what the acronym, SAFE, stands for: 1:
(S)ecure all firearms in the home; 2: (A)sk the question about
unsecured firearms in the homes your child visits; 3: (F)requently
talk to your children about the dangers of firearms; and 4:
(E)ducate and Empower others to be SAFE. One in three households
in America owns a firearm. The question that arises here is how
many of these households make sure that their firearms are stashed
away safely and out of reach of children. Sadly, the resulting
child injuries and deaths owing to unsafe firearm placement show
that many of these households do not take firearm safety into
serious consideration. Every year, on June 4, a safety campaign is
held not only to raise awareness about firearm safety but also to
remember the many children who met fatal ends due to unsafe
firearm storage. The National SAFE Day was first honored in 2016
by the Brooklynn Mae Mohler Foundation (BMMF). The foundation was
established after the death of Brooklynn Mae Mohler. Brooklynn was
visiting her best friend at her residence when the latter found a
gun kept in a kitchen cabinet. Brooklynn's best friend, unaware of
the firearm's safety being unlocked, played with the gun and
accidentally fatally shot Brooklynn. To honor Brooklynn and
children like her, National SAFE Day was started by Brooklynn's
parents, Darchel and Jacob. It is also a reminder to keep our
children safe from any future accidents. To prevent accidental
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June 4: Audacity To Hope Day: -- On this
day, we celebrate the resilient human spirit that conquers all
obstacles with hope and perseverance. It is also a day to
celebrate movements and important landmarks in human history that
have made the world a better place for us all. This is also a
great day to celebrate personal victories that you have achieved
after overcoming challenging obstacles. A celebration of optimism
and hope, Audacity To Hope Day anticipates a happy future for
every single person! Hope is an optimistic state of mind that
expects a positive outcome no matter how dire the circumstances.
It is a singular force that motivates us to do better and strive
to be our best selves. This positive emotion also anticipates a
happier future that is full of opportunities and brings about an
easier way of life. The word features frequently in many languages
across the world to indicate optimism and positive actions. Common
phrases like "hoping against hope", "hope springs
eternal", and "hope for the best" are some of the
most common phrases in the English language featuring the word
'hope'. The day is also dedicated to President Barack Obama who
has written the book, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on
Reclaiming the American Dream." Published in 2006 when Obama
was a senator, the book talks about Obama and his own audacity to
hope that led him to become America's first Black president! His
inspiration for the phrase "the audacity of hope" came
from a sermon by pastor Jeremiah Wright, in which he said, "_to
take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to
hope." Even though the book largely focuses on Obama's
political career, we learn about his thoughts on understanding an
opponent's point of view and building mutual respect. Ultimately,
it is a book about defying the odds to bring about a significant
change in the world around us. And this is exactly what this day
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June 4: Invisible Day: -- How many times
have you wished to be invisible? Today offers us a chance to
explore that fantasy, but with a twist that's more about inner
peace than vanishing acts. It's a day that invites us to step back
from our daily grind and find solace in solitude, acknowledging
those moments when we all feel a bit unseen or overwhelmed by the
demands of a connected world. This special day is celebrated
across the United States not just for the playful idea of
invisibility but also as a meaningful nod to mental health. It's a
call to disconnect from constant digital chatter and reconnect
with ourselves. Invisible Day supports taking a break to unwind,
reflect, and enjoy our own company away from the pressures of
social media and work. The reasons for marking this day are as
thoughtful as they are necessary. By stepping out of the social
spotlight, we gain the chance to recharge our mental batteries.
This can lead to better creativity and productivity once we return
to our routine. Invisible Day serves as a reminder that being
unseen for a while can give us a new perspective on our lives and
the breathing space we often overlook in our busy schedules. The
origins of Invisible Day are shrouded in a bit of mystery, with no
clear record of its exact beginnings. What is evident is the day's
connection to themes of feeling unseen or overwhelmed, aligning
closely with mental health awareness. Celebrated on July 4th in
the United States, the day offers a chance for individuals to
disconnect from their usual routines, emphasizing solitude and
mental well-being. The idea is to take a step back from the
hyper-connected world and find comfort in being "invisible"
for a day, away from the pressures of constant communication and
societal expectations?. Invisible Day also resonates with the
human desire for moments of invisibility, where one can escape the
usual demands of daily life. This concept ties back to historical
uses of invisible ink, an element that symbolizes secrecy and the
unseen, adding a playful layer to the day's observance?. Overall,
while the specific history of Invisible Day may not be
well-documented, its celebration is deeply rooted in the idea of
acknowledging and respecting our mental health and the need for
personal space. This theme is increasingly relevant in today's
world, making Invisible Day a significant date on the calendar for
those seeking a brief respite from their visible, connected lives.
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June 4, 1561: England: The History Of
England: London: The History Of London: St Paul's Cathedral: Old
St Paul's Cathedral: The Destruction Of The Steeple Of Old St
Paul's Cathedral (The Fire Of The Steeple Of Old St Paul's
Cathedral, The Lightning-Struck Tower Of Old St Paul's Cathedral):
-- The steeple of Old St Paul's Cathedral, the medieval cathedral
of The City Of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning
and is never rebuilt. Until The Great Fire Of London Of 1666, Old
St Paul's stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral.
Built in various stages of initial construction and restoration
from 604 to 1666, and dedicated to Saint Paul, the cathedral was
perhaps the fourth church at Ludgate Hil, near the old Ludgate, a
gate to the City that was taken down, with its attached gaol, in
1780. It is said to have been the site of a Roman temple of the
goddess Diana. It is one of the three ancient hills of London, the
others being Tower Hill and Cornhill. Ludgate Hill is also the
name of a street which runs between St. Paul's Churchyard and
Ludgate Circus (built in 1864), from where it becomes Fleet
Street. It was formerly a much narrower street called Ludgate
Street. Work on Old St Paul's Cathedral in its final form began
after a prior London fire, The Great Fire Of London Of 1087. A
major fire occurred in London in 1087, at the beginning of the
reign of William II, third son of William The Conqueror. It
consumed much of the Norman city, and also damaged the Palatine
tower built by William The Conqueror on the banks of the River
Fleet so badly that the remains had to be pulled down. Part of the
stone from the tower was then used in the reconstruction of the
cathedral. Work continued until 1314, and was delayed by another
fire in 1135. The church was consecrated in 1240, enlarged in 1256
and again in the early 1300s. At its completion in the mid-1300s,
the cathedral was one of the longest churches in the world, had
one of the tallest spires and some of the finest stained glass.
The presence of the shrine of Saint Erkenwald made the cathedral a
site of pilgrimage. In addition to serving as the seat of the
Diocese of London, the building developed a reputation as a social
hub, with the nave aisle, "Paul's walk", known as a
business centre and a place to hear the gossip on the London
grapevine. After the Reformation, the open-air pulpit in the
churchyard, St Paul's Cross, became the place for radical
evangelical preaching and Protestant bookselling. The cathedral
was already in severe structural decline by the early 1600s.
Restoration work begun by Inigo Jones in the 1620s was temporarily
halted during the English Civil War (1642-1651). In 1666, further
restoration was in progress under Sir Christopher Wren when the
cathedral was devastated in the Great Fire Of London. At that
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June 4, 1738: #BOTD: #HBD! George III of
the United Kingdom (George William Frederick), King of Great
Britain and King of Ireland from October 25, 1760 until the union
of the two countries on January 1, 1801, after which he was King
Of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death
(d. January 29, 1820) is #born George William Frederick Hanover in
Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, England. He was
concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Luneburg
("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming
King of Hanover on October 12, 1814. He was the third British
monarch of the House Of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors,
he was born in England, spoke English as his first language, and
never visited Hanover. His life and with it his reign, which were
longer than those of any of his predecessors, were marked by a
series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the
rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas
and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the
Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North
America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies
were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Further wars
against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in
the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In the
later part of his life, George III had recurrent, and eventually
permanent, mental illness. Although it has since been suggested
that he had the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness
remains unknown. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was
established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince Of Wales,
ruled as Prince Regent. George III died aged 81 of pneumonia at
Windsor Castle at 8:38 pm, six days after the death of his fourth
son Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. His favourite son,
Prince Frederick, Duke of York And Albany, was with him. George
III lay in state for two days, and his funeral took place on
February 16 in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he was
interred in The Royal Vault. On George III's death, the Prince
Regent succeeded his father as George IV. Historical analysis of
George III's life has gone through a kaleidoscope of changing
views that have depended heavily on the prejudices of his
biographers and the sources available to them. Until it was
reassessed in the second half of the 20th century, his reputation
in the United States was one of a tyrant; and in Britain he became
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June 4, 1783: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: Lighter Than Air Aviation (Lighter-Than-Air-Aviation):
The History Of Ballooning: The Montgolfier Brothers: --
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 - June 26, 1810) and
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 - August 2, 1799 -
publicly demonstrate their "Montgolfiere", history's
first documented hot air balloon, and the first documented balloon
flight. In order to make a public demonstration and thereby claim
its invention, the brothers constructed a globe-shaped balloon of
sackcloth tightened with three thin layers of paper inside. The
envelope could contain nearly 790 m3 (28,000 cu ft) of air and
weighed 225 kg (496 lb). It was constructed of four pieces (the
dome and three lateral bands) and held together by 1,800 buttons.
A reinforcing fish net of cord covered the outside of the
envelope. They flew their unmanned balloon at Annonay, France in
front of a group of dignitaries from the French provinces. The
flight covered 2 km (1.2 mi), lasted 10 minutes, and had an
estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000 m (5,200-6,600 ft). Word of
their success quickly reached Paris. Etienne went to the capital
to make further demonstrations and to solidify the brothers' claim
to the invention of flight. Joseph, given his unkempt appearance
and shyness, remained with the family. The first manned flight of
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June 4, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Carlton E.
Morse, author, radio producer and journalist, considered by many
to be one of the best radio scriptwriters (d. May 24, 1993) is
#born Carlton Errol Morse in Jennings, Louisiana. He is best nown
for his creation of three popular Golden Age Of Radio serials: One
Man's Family, a radio soap opera which debuted in 1932 and ran
until 1959, the longest-running uninterrupted dramatic serial in
the history of American radio; I Love a Mystery, an American radio
drama series that aired from 1939 to 1944 about three friends who
ran a detective agency and traveled the world in search of
adventure; and Adventures By Morse, a syndicated 1944-1945
adventure series which he produced, wrote and directed. Morse was
also a pioneer in television as well. He was part of Slice Of
Life, the first television drama series aired on Los Angeles'
television station, KFI. Morse brought One Man's Family to
television (1949-52), years before it left the airwaves with the
end of the Golden Age Of Radio. Morse brought a revision of Slice
of Life to network television with the title Mixed Doubles. He was
producer, director, and writer for the situation comedy, which ran
on NBC August through October in 1949. He also was the head writer
of the 1958 television soap opera Kitty Foyle that was based on
the 1940 film of the same name starring Ginger Rogers. Morse
eventually retired from radio/TV in order to write novels from his
home, named Seven Stones. Three of his books, Killer At The Wheel,
A Lavish Of Sin and Stuff The Lady's Hatbox were based on I Love a
Mystery. In 1984, Morse's first wife Patricia died. Later in life,
Morse copyrighted his scripts and novels. He was a member of San
Francisco's Bohemian Club, and he attended many conventions held
in his honor. Before his death in 1993, Morse founded The Morse
Family Trust. Carlton E. Morse died of natural causes in Redwood
City, Sacramento, California, aged 91. His burial details are not
publicly disclosed. As of 2024, he is survived by his second wife,
Millie Morse. Morse has a star in the Radio section of the
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June 4, 1913: Feminism: The Feminist
Movement (The Women's Movement): Women's Suffrage In The United
Kingdom: Emily Davison's Fatal Injury At The Derby: -- Emily
Davison, suffragette who fought for votes for women in the United
Kingdom in the early twentieth century October 11, 1872 - June 8,
1913), is mortally wounded when she walks out in front of Anmer,
King George V's horse, when he was racking on the track of the
1913 Epsom Derby; Davison is trampled, never regains
consciousness, and dies four days later. The Derby Stakes,
officially the Investec Derby, popularly known as "The
Derby", is a horse race in England open to three-year-old
thoroughbred colts and fillies run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in
Surrey, over a distance of 2,420 metres, on the first Saturday of
June each year. Emily Davison was born Emily Wilding Davison at
Roxburgh House, Greenwich, in south-east London. A member of the
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter
for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger
strike seven times and was force fed on forty-nine occasions. On
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June 4, 1916: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Eastern Front Of World War I: The Brusilov Offensive
(Russian: Brusilovskii Proryv, "Brusilov's Breakthrough")
(The June advance): -- One of the most lethal offensives in world
history, the Russian Empire's greatest feat of arms during World
War I, begins with a Russian artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian
lines in Galicia, in an area of present-day western Ukraine, in
the general vicinity of the towns of Lviv, Kovel, and Lutsk. The
Brusilov Offensive (Russian: Brusilovskii Proryv, "Brusilov's
Breakthrough", June 4 - September 20, 1916), also known as
the "June Advance", was the worst crisis of World War I
for Austria-Hungary and the Triple Entente's greatest victory, but
it came at a tremendous loss of life. The offensive takes its name
after the commander in charge of the Southwestern Front of the
Imperial Russian Army, General Aleksei Brusilov. Galicia was the
Central Powers' only major domestic source of oil during the Great
War, and was therefore an important strategic target. The early
success of the offensive convinced Romania to enter the war on the
side of the Entente, though that turned out to be a bad decision
since it led to the failure of the 1916 campaign. Russian
casualties were considerable, numbering between 500,000 and
1,000,000. Austria-Hungary and Germany lost 616,000 and 148,000,
respectively, making a total of 764,000 casualties. The Brusilov
Offensive is considered as one of the most lethal offensives in
world history. The Brusilov Offensive was the high point of the
Russian effort during World War I, and was a manifestation of good
leadership and planning on the part of the Imperial Russian Army
coupled with great skill of the lower ranks. According to John
Keegan, "the Brusilov Offensive was, on the scale by which
success was measured in the foot-by-foot fighting of the First
World War, the greatest victory seen on any front since the trench
lines had been dug on the Aisne two years before". The
Brusilov offensive commanded by Brusilov himself went very well,
but the overall campaign, for which Brusilov's part was only
supposed to be a distraction, because of Evert's failures, became
tremendously costly for the Imperial army, and after the
offensive, it was no longer able to launch another on the same
scale. Many historians contend that the casualties that the
Russian army suffered in this campaign contributed significantly
to its collapse the following year. The operation was marked by a
considerable improvement in the quality of Russian tactics.
Brusilov used smaller, specialized units to attack weak points in
the Austro-Hungarian trench lines and blow open holes for the rest
of the army to advance into. These were a remarkable departure
from the human wave attacks that had dominated the strategy of all
the major armies until that point during World War I. Evert used
conventional tactics that were to prove costly and indecisive,
thereby costing Russia its chance for a victory in 1916. The irony
was that other Russian commanders did not realize the potential of
the tactics that Brusilov had devised. Similar tactics were
proposed separately by French, Germans, and British on the Western
Front, and employed at the Battle Of Verdun earlier in the year,
and would henceforth be used to an even greater degree by the
Germans, who utilized stormtroopers and infiltration tactics to
great effect in the 1918 Spring Offensive. Breakthrough tactics
were later to play a large role in the early German blitzkrieg
offensives of World War II and the later attacks by the Soviet
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June 4, 1917: Literature: The History Of
Literature: Poetry: The History Of Poetry: American Literary
Awards: American Poetry Awards: The Pulitzer Prize: The First
Pulitzer Prizes: -- 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 Prize For History for his work With
Americans of Past and Present Days; and Herbert B. Swope receives
the first Pulitzer Prize For Journalism for his work for the New
York World. The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by
Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine,
online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the
United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the
will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper
publisher. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-two categories.
In twenty one of the categories, each winner receives a
certificate and a 15K USD award (raised from 10K USD in 2017).The
winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal. On
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June 4, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Charles
Collingwood, American radio and television broadcast journalist,
war correspondent, early member of Edward R. Murrow's group of
radio foreign correspondents that was known as the "Murrow
Boys", television host and spy fiction author (d. October 3,
1985) is #born in Three Rivers, Michigan. During World War II he
covered Europe and North Africa for CBS News. Collingwood was also
among the early ranks of television journalists that included
Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, and Murrow himself. He attended
Deep Springs College and graduated from Cornell University. In
1939, he received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford
University. Collingwood covered World War II for United Press in
London and was soon recruited to CBS by Edward R. Murrow in 1941.
He established himself as an urbane and spontaneously-eloquent
on-air journalist. In 1942, Collingwood was sent to cover the
North African Campaign, where he proved his reporting abilities
despite being considered "green" as a broadcast
journalist. On D-Day, he landed at Utah Beach hours after the
first wave of soldiers had hit the beaches. Of the CBS reporters
accompanying the ground invasion, he recorded a report on June 6
that made it to broadcast two days later. The other CBS
correspondents on the ground, Bill Downs and Larry LeSueur, were
not able to deliver reports until days later because of trouble
setting up mobile transmitters. When General Omar Bradley told
Collingwood that the French Resistance was about to rise up and
liberate Paris, Collingwood prepared and sent a recording with
news of the liberation to CBS in London so that it would be ready
when the city was actually freed. The recording bore a label that
said to hold it back until Paris was actually liberated, but the
technician at CBS did not read the label and immediately aired the
recording. On that day, August 22, there were still thousands of
German troops in Paris, and the Resistance fighters who were
fighting and dying did not appreciate that the world was told that
Paris had been liberated. The city would not be actually liberated
until three days later, on August 25. After the war, Collingwood
remained with CBS and established himself as a television
journalist. One of his first roles on television was as host of
the CBS documentary series Adventure, which was produced in
collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History and
aired from May 1953 to July 1956. In December 1955, Charles
Collingwood was elected president of the American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists. Orson Bean was the first vice
president and John Henry Faulk the elected second vice president.
Collingwood, Bean and Faulk were part of a middle-of-the-road
slate of non-communist, anti-AWARE organization candidates;
twenty-seven of thirty-five vacant seats on the board went to the
middle-of-the-road slate. AWARE, Inc., a for-profit corporation
inspired by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, published "Red
Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and
Television", an anti-Communist pamphlet-style book issued by
the right-wing journal "Counterattack", itself weekly,
subscription-based, anti-communist, mimeographed newsletter
operated from 1947 into the 1950s by a "private, independent
organization" started by three ex-FBI agents. On June 22,
1950, Red Channels named 151 actors, writers, musicians, broadcast
journalists, and others in the context of purported Communist
manipulation of the entertainment industry. Some of the 151 were
already being denied employment because of their political
beliefs, history, or association with suspected subversives. Red
Channels effectively placed the rest on the industry blacklist.
AWARE offered a "clearance" service to major media
advertisers and radio and television networks; for a fee, AWARE
would investigate the backgrounds of entertainers for signs of
Communist sympathy or affiliation. Collingwood and his fellow
members AFTRA officers earned the ill will of the blacklisting
organization when they wrested control of their union. In
reprisal, AWARE labeled them Communists. Charles Collingwood and
Orson Bean decided to agree to AWARE's demand that they
participate in AWARE's blacklisting of fellow AFTRA members, while
Faulk refused to back down. As a result, Faulk's radio career at
CBS ended in 1957, a victim of this Cold War blacklisting, for
which Faulk held his former AFTRA colleagues in comtempt for the
rest of his life. Collingwood then went on to become the chief
correspondent of CBS and the third host of its Eyewitness To
History series from 1962 to 1963. In 1959 he succeeded Edward R.
Murrow as host of Person to Person. He was a leading figure in
CBS's expansion to include international coverage, and was CBS
News's first United Nations correspondent. He later served as the
network's White House correspondent. Collingwood accompanied
then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on a televised tour of the
White House which she had renovated during the first year of the
presidency of her husband, United States President John F.
Kennedy. The resulting program, A Tour of the White House with
Mrs. John F. Kennedy, was broadcast on Valentine's Day in 1962 and
was seen by 80 million viewers and broadcast in 50 countries,
including Russia and China. He served as substitute anchor during
portions of CBS's coverage of the Kennedy assassination on
November 22, 1963, relieving Walter Cronkite only minutes after
Cronkite had announced the official confirmation of Kennedy's
death. Collingwood was CBS's chief foreign correspondent from 1964
to 1975, covering warfare in Southeast Asia. In 1968, he became
the first US reporter allowed into North Vietnam. The inspiration
for Collingwood's 1970 espionage novel The Defector largely came
from this visit. The book received critical praise for its merits
as a thriller and for its insights into the complexities of the
Vietnam War. Collingwood retired in 1982. He was married to
actress Louise Allbritton from 1946 until she died of cancer in
1979. He married the Swedish singer Tatiana Angelini-Jolin (nee
Scheremetiew) (1923-2006) in 1984, whom he remained married until
his death a year later. His honors include: two Peabody Awards -
the Peabody Award for Outstanding Reporting of the News in 1942;
he received a second Peabody Award in 1955; two Natioinal
Headliner's Club Awards - an award from the National Headliner's
Club in 1943 for "consistently accurate and interesting
accounts of the fighting in North Africa war zone"; he
received a second award in 1949 for "coverage of the
Arizona-Colorado dispute over the division of water from the
Colorado River"; the General Federation of Women's Club
Television Award in education in 1956; and the "Better
Understanding" award from the English-Speaking Union in 1957;
made Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire by
Queen Elizabeth II in 1975 for contributions to British-American
friendship and understanding; and made a Chevalier in the French
Legion of Honour. Charles Collingwood died of cancer at Lenox Hill
Hospital in New York City at the age of 68. His burial details are
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June 4, 1928: #BOTD: #HBD! Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, German-American sex therapist, media personality, author and class act (d. July 12, 2024) is #born Karola Ruth Siegel in Wiesenfeld (near Karlstadt am Main), Germany, the only child of Orthodox Jews Irma (nee Hanauer), a housekeeper, and Julius Siegel, a notions wholesaler and son of the family in which Irma worked. She was given an early grounding in Judaism by her father, who took her regularly to the synagogue in Frankfurt, where they lived. In January 1939, she was sent to an orphanage in Switzerland by her mother and grandmother as part of the Kindertransport after her father had been taken by the Nazis. She stopped receiving her parents' letters in September 1941. In 1945, Westheimer learned that her parents had been killed in the Holocaust, possibly at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show, Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. She also hosted at least five television shows on the Lifetime and other cable television from 1984 to 1993. She is also the author of approximately 40 books on a variety of topics about sex and sexuality. Ruth Westheimer died at her home in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 96. Her funeral was held at Riverside Memorial Chapel Jewish funeral home chain's main facility at 180 West 76th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She is buried Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, New Jersey. #RuthWestheimer #DrRuth #DoctorRuth #SexTherapists #SexTherapy #Sex #Sexuality #HumanSexuality #Radio #RadioHosts #TV #TVHosts #SexuallySpeaking #Pogroms #JewishPogroms #Kristallnacht #Holocaust #NaziConcentrationCamps #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hioftarawila.html
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June 4, 1939: History Of The Jews In Germany: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Germany: The Voyage Of The Damned: -- The MS St. Louis, a diesel-powered passenger ship (properly referred to with the prefix MS or MV) carrying 963 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. MS St. Louis was built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for HAPAG, better known in English as the Hamburg America Line. The ship was named after the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Her sister ship, MS Milwaukee, was also a diesel powered motor vessel owned by the Hamburg America Line. St. Louis regularly sailed the trans-Atlantic route from Hamburg to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New York City, and made cruises to the Canary Islands, Madeira, Spain; and Morocco. St. Louis was built for both transatlantic liner service and for leisure cruises. During the build-up to World War II, the St. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. The refugees first tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied permission to land. After Cuba, the captain, Gustav Schroder, went to the United States and Canada, trying to find a nation to take the Jews in, but both nations refused. He finally returned the ship to Europe, where various countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, accepted some refugees. Many were later caught in Nazi roundups of Jews in the occupied countries of Belgium, France and the Netherlands, and some historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them were killed in death camps during World War II. These events, also known as the "Voyage of the Damned", have inspired film, opera, and fiction. After the war, The Federal Republic Of Germany awarded Captain Gustav Schroder The Order Of Merit, awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellectual or honorary fields, created on September 7 1951 by The Federal Republic's first President, Theodor Heuss, the only federal decoration of Germany. In 1993, Schroder was posthumously named as one of the Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel. A display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., tells the story of the voyage, and The Hamburg Museum features a display and a video about it as well. In 2009, a special exhibit at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, entitled Ship of Fate, explored the Canadian connection to the tragic voyage. The display is as of 2024 now a traveling exhibit in Canada. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html
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June 8, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Denmark And Norway
(Operation Weserubung [German: Unternehmen Weserubung, "Operation
Weser Exercise]): The Norwegian Campaign: The Battles Of Narvik:
Operation Alphabet (The Allied Evacuation Of Narvik): -- The
Allied evacuation of Narvik, Norway, codenamed Operation Alphabet,
begins, with would result four days later on June 4, 1940 both in
ending The Battles Of Narvik and The Norwegian Campaign. The
Allies initiated this when it was in fact only a matter of time
before the Germans would have to surrender. They were pushed from
the north by the Norwegians, from the west by the French and from
the southwest by the Poles. It appeared that Bjornfjell would be
the Germans' last stand, but the stunning German victories
elsewhere in Europe came to their rescue. London had already
secretly decided to evacuate on May 24, and that became apparent
in the following days. On the night of May 24/25, Lord Cork
received orders to retreat, but under cover so the Germans would
be prevented from interfering. The Allied commanders agreed that
an attack on Narvik would disguise the retreat and allow the
destruction of the iron ore harbour. The Norwegian government and
commanders were first told in early June and the news was met with
disbelief and bitterness. The Norwegians still hoped to defeat the
Germans alone and, as late as June 5, one of the two Norwegian
brigades was ordered to attack. The Norwegian government also
explored the possibility of creating a neutral, but free Northern
Norway. This plan proved futile, and on June 7 the King and
government were evacuated to Britain. All Allied troops were
evacuated from Narvik between June 4 and 8. Three Polish passenger
ships, MS Sobieski, Batory and Chrobry, took part in the
evacuation operation. Chrobry was sunk on May 14-15 by German
bombers. On June 8, General Dietl retook Narvik, and on June 10
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June 4, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War
II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"})
(The Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow",
Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The
Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The
French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De
France], The Fall Of France): The Battle Of Dunkirk (French:
Bataille De Dunkerque): The Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo,
The Miracle Of Dunkirk, Dunkirk): We Shall Fight On The Beaches:
-- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , the Dunkirk
evacuation having ended, delivers his "We Shall Fight On The
beaches" speech to the House Of Commons. "We Shall Fight
On The Beaches" is the common title given to the speech,
which was the second of three major speeches given around the
period of the Battle Of France; the others are the "Blood,
Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech of May 13 and the "This
Was Their Finest Hour" speech of June 18. Events developed
dramatically over the five-week period, and although broadly
similar in themes, each speech addressed a different military and
diplomatic context. In this speech, Churchill had to describe a
great military disaster, and warn of a possible invasion attempt
by Nazi Germany, without casting doubt on eventual victory. He
also had to prepare his domestic audience for France's falling out
of the war without in any way releasing France to do so, and
wished to reiterate a policy and an aim unchanged, despite the
intervening events, from his speech of May 13, in which he had
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June 4-7, 1942: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Battle Of Midway:
-- June 4: -- The Battle Of Midway begins as Japanese Admiral
Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the
Imperial Japanese Navy. The Battle Of Midway was a decisive naval
battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred
between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on
Pearl Harbor and one month after the historic Battle Of The Coral
Sea. The United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank
Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet
of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto,
Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting
devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable.
Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning
and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.". The
Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor,
sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the
Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Japanese hoped another
demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the
Pacific War and thus ensure Japanese dominance in the Pacific.
Luring the American aircraft carriers into a trap and occupying
Midway was part of an overall "barrier" strategy to
extend Japan's defensive perimeter, in response to the Doolittle
air raid on Tokyo. This operation was also considered preparatory
for further attacks against Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii itself. The
plan was handicapped by faulty Japanese assumptions of the
American reaction and poor initial dispositions. Most
significantly, American cryptographers at Station HYPO in Hawaii
were able to determine from decryptions of the Japanese JN-25
naval communications cypher the date and location of the planned
attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to prepare its own
ambush. There were seven aircraft carriers involved in the battle,
and all four of Japan's large fleet carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Soryu
and Hiryu, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl
Harbor six months earlier - and the heavy cruiser Mikuma were
sunk, while the U.S. lost only the carrier USS Yorktown and the
destroyer USS Hammann. After Midway and the exhausting attrition
of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's capacity to replace its
losses in materiel (particularly aircraft carriers) and men
(especially well-trained pilots and maintenance crewmen) rapidly
became insufficient to cope with mounting casualties, while the
United States' massive industrial and training capabilities made
losses far easier to replace. The Battle Of Midway, along with the
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June 4, 1944: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of
Italy): The Winter Line: The Battle Of Rome (The Liberation Of
Rome): The Battle Of Anzio (Operation Shingle): -- Rome is
liberated by the U.S. 5th Army, the first Axis capital to fall,
led by General Mark Clark. Rome had been declared an open city by
German Gen. Albert Kesselring amid Allied concerns the Germans
might stage a Stalingrad style defense that would devastate the
historic 'eternal' city. After a month of heavy but inconclusive
fighting on the beaches of Anzio, American General John P. Lucas
was relieved and sent home. His replacement was Major General
Lucian Truscott, who had previously commanded the U.S. 3rd
Infantry Division. The Allies broke out of Anzio in May, but
instead of striking inland to cut lines of communication of the
German Tenth Army's units fighting at Monte Cassino, Truscott, on
Clark's orders, reluctantly turned his forces north-west towards
Rome, which was captured on June 4, 1944. As a result, the forces
of the German Tenth Army fighting at Cassino were able to withdraw
and rejoin the rest of Kesselring's forces north of Rome, regroup,
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1944: World War II: The European
Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European
Theater Of World War II): The Battle Of The Atlantic: German
Submarine U-505: The Capture Of German Submarine U-505: -- A
United States Navy Hunter-Killer Group (Convoy Support Group), a
group of anti-submarine warships organized and actively deployed
to attack submarines during World War II, captures the German
submarine U-505, the first and so far only time and a U.S. Navy
vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the War Of 1812
(on February 20, 1815). Secret Project Ultra decryptions of German
Kriegsmarine cypher communications with its U-boats by British
military intelligence revealed German cipher messages that
informed the Allies that U-boats were operating near Cape Verde,
but had not revealed their exact locations.The US Navy dispatched
Task Group 22.3 (TG 22.3), a "Hunter-Killer" group,
commanded by Captain Daniel V. Gallery, USN, to the area. TG 22.3
consisted of Gallery's escort aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal
(CVE-60), and five destroyer escorts under Commander Frederick S.
Hall: USS Pillsbury, USS Pope, USS Flaherty, USS Chatelain, and
USS Jenks. On 15 May 1944, TG 22.3 sailed from Norfolk, Virginia.
Starting in late May, the task group began searching for U-boats
in the area, using high-frequency direction-finding fixes
("Huff-Duff") and air and surface reconnaissance. TG
22.3 made sonar contact with U-505 at 11:09 off the coast of Rio
de Oro only 800 yards (700 m) away off Chatelain's starboard bow.
The escorts immediately moved towards the contact, while
Guadalcanal moved away at top speed and launched a Grumman F4F
Wildcat fighter to join another Wildcat and a Grumman TBM Avenger
which were already airborne. Chatelain was so close to U-505 that
depth charges would not sink fast enough to intercept the U-boat,
so instead she fired Hedgehogs before passing the submarine and
turning to make a follow-up attack with depth charges. At around
this time, one of the aircraft sighted U-505 and fired into the
water to mark the position while Chatelain dropped depth charges.
Immediately after the detonation of the charges a large oil slick
spread on the water and the fighter pilot overhead radioed, "You
struck oil! Sub is surfacing!" Less than seven minutes after
Chatelain's first attack began, the badly damaged U-505 surfaced
less than 600 metres (700 yd) away. Chatelain immediately
commenced fire on U-505 with all available automatic weapons,
joined by other ships of the task force as well as the two
Wildcats. Believing U-505 to be seriously damaged, Oblt.z.S. Lange
ordered his crew to abandon ship. This order was obeyed so
promptly that scuttling was not completed, (although some valves
were opened) and the engines were left running. With the engines
still functioning and the rudder damaged by depth charges, U-505
circled clockwise at approximately 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph).
Seeing the U-boat turning toward him and believing she was
preparing to attack, the commanding officer of Chatelain ordered a
single torpedo to be fired at the submarine; the torpedo missed,
passing ahead of the now-abandoned U-505. While Chatelain and
Jenks collected survivors, an eight-man party from Pillsbury led
by Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Albert David came alongside U-505 in
a boat and entered through the conning tower. The body of
Oberfunkmaat (Signalman First Class) Gottfried Fischer, the only
fatality of the action, was found on the deck. U-505 was otherwise
deserted. The boarding party secured charts and codebooks, closed
scuttling valves, and disarmed demolition charges. They stopped
the water coming in, and although low in the water and down by the
stern, U-505 remained afloat. They also stopped her engines. While
the boarding party secured U-505, Pillsbury attempted to take her
in tow, but collided repeatedly with her and had to move away with
three compartments flooded. Instead, a second boarding party from
Guadalcanal rigged a towline from the aircraft carrier to the
U-boat. Commander Earl Trosino (Guadalcanal's chief engineer),
joined the salvage party. He disconnected U-505's diesels from her
electric driving motors, while leaving these motors clutched to
the propeller shafts. With the U-boat moving under tow by
Guadalcanal, the propellers "windmilled" as they passed
through the water, turning the shafts and the drive motors. This
caused the motors to act as electrical generators charging U-505's
batteries. With power from the batteries, U-505's pumps cleared
out the water let in by the attempted scuttling, and her air
compressors blew out the ballast tanks, bringing her up to full
surface trim. After three days of towing, Guadalcanal transferred
U-505 to the fleet tug Abnaki. On 19 June, U-505 entered Port
Royal Bay, Bermuda, after a tow of 1,700 nautical miles (3,150 km;
1,960 mi). Fifty-eight prisoners were taken from U-505, three of
them wounded (including Lange). The Navy classified the capture as
top secret and prevented its discovery by the Germans; they were
thereby denied access to International Red Cross visits. U-505's
crew was interned at Camp Ruston, near Ruston, Louisiana. Among
the guards were members of the US Navy baseball team, composed
mostly of minor league professional baseball players who had
previously toured combat areas to entertain the troops. The
players taught some of U-505 sailors to play the game. U-505 is a
German Type IXC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine
during World War II. She was captured by the U.S. Navy on 4 June
1944. In her uniquely unlucky career with the Kriegsmarine, she
had the distinction of being the "most heavily damaged U-boat
to successfully return to port" in World War II (on her
fourth patrol) and the only submarine in which a commanding
officer took his own life in combat conditions (on her tenth
patrol, following six botched patrols). She is one of six U-boats
that were captured by Allied forces during World War II. Her
codebooks, Enigma machine, and other secret materials found on
board helped the Allied codebreakers. In 1954, U-505 was donated
to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois. She is
now one of four German World War II U-boats that survive as museum
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Michelle
Phillips, American singer, songwriter, actress, model and beauty
is #born Michelle Gilliam Phillips in Long Beach, California. She
rose to fame as a vocalist in the musical quartet the Mamas and
the Papas in the mid-1960s. Phillips garnered critical acclaim for
her voice, which was deemed by Time magazine as the "purest
soprano in pop music." She later established a successful
career as an actress in film and television in the 1970s. Phillips
is the last surviving original member of the Mamas and the Papas.
A native of Long Beach, California, she spent her early life in
Los Angeles and Mexico City, raised by her widowed father. While
working as a model in San Francisco, she met and married John
Phillips in 1962 and went on to co-found the vocal group the Mamas
and the Papas in 1965. The band rose to fame with their popular
singles "California Dreamin'" and "Creeque Alley",
both of which she co-wrote. They released five studio albums
before their dissolution in 1970. With John Phillips, she gave
birth to a daughter, singer Chynna Phillips. After the breakup of
the Mamas and the Papas and her divorce from John Phillips, she
transitioned into acting, appearing in a supporting part in The
Last Movie (1971) before being cast as Billie Frechette in the
critically acclaimed crime biopic Dillinger (1973), for which she
was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising
Newcomer. In 1974, she had lead roles in two television films: the
crime feature The Death Squad, and the teen drama The California
Kid, in the latter of which she starred opposite Martin Sheen. She
went on to appear in a number of films throughout the remainder of
the 1970s, including Ken Russell's Valentino (1977), playing
Natacha Rambova, and the thriller Bloodline (1979). She released
her only solo album, Victim of Romance, in 1977. Phillips appeared
in a number of films in the 1980s, first in the comedy The Man
with Bogart's Face (1980). The following year, she co-starred with
Tom Skerritt in the nature-themed horror film Savage Harvest
(1981), followed by the television films Secrets of a Married Man
(1984) and The Covenant (1985). In 1987, she joined the cast of
the series Knots Landing, portraying Anne Matheson, the mother of
Paige Matheson (portrayed by Nicollette Sheridan) until the
series' 1993 conclusion. She subsequently had supporting roles in
the comedy film Let It Ride (1989) and the psychological thriller
Scissors (1991). Phillips continued to appear in independent films
after the millennium, with supporting parts in Jane White is Sick
and Twisted (2002) and Kids in America (2005) and had recurring
guest roles in the television series That's Life (2001-2002) and
7th Heaven (2001-2004). She was an outspoken critic of the Bush
administration in the mid-2000s and has also advocated the
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1961: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1953-1962): Superpower Summits:
The Vienna Summit: The Berlin Crisis Of 1961: -- 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. The one-day Vienna
Summit found the leaders of the two superpowers of the Cold War
era contentiously discussing numerous issues in the relationship
between their countries: The Laotian Civil War, The Bay Of Pigs
Invasion, and most urgently, East German emigration from East
Berlin, a part of the Soviet satellite state of East Germany, to
West Berlin in West Germany. The latter discussions resulted in
The Berlin Crisis Of 1961, the result of Khrushchev's reissued
ultimatum which demanded the withdrawal of all armed forces from
Berlin, including the Western armed forces in West Berlin. The
East German government also sought a way to stop its "brain
drain" as its population fled west through Berlin, made
possible by the city's four-power status and the allowance of free
travel between both halves of the city. No agreement was reached
at the summit, so in August 1961, with Khrushchev's backing, East
German leader Walter Ulbricht ordered the closing of the border
between East and West Berlin, and the construction of a wall
around West Berlin. A brief stand-off between American and Soviet
tanks occurred at Checkpoint Charlie in October following a
dispute over free movement of Allied personnel; the confrontation
ended peacefully President Kennedy called Khrushchev to insist
that he order the Soviet Tanks to back up, for which Kennedy
pledge to do likewise in response; Khrushchev agreed, and in this
back-and-forth fashion, the tanks were withdrawn and tensions
reduced. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 (German: Berlin-Krise) was the
last major European political and military incident of the Cold
War concerning the status of the German capital city, Berlin, and
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1985: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: United States Television
Premieres: -- Martin Mull Presents The History Of White People In
America, Part 1: In Search Of is first broadcast on Cinemax at
9:30 PM. The History of White People in America was a series of
30-minute mockumentary-style vignettes. It was hosted by Martin
Mull, and starred Fred Willard, Mary Kay Place, Amy Lynne,
Christian Jacobs, and Edie McClurg. It was written and produced by
Martin Mull and Allen Rucker, and directed by Harry Shearer.
Mull's wife Wendy Haas contributed the music. The History of White
People in America was done in the style of documentaries about
minorities in the United States. The focus is a family of
empty-headed white people clueless about the complexities of the
world around them. Each 30-minute segment focuses on a particular
theme (e.g. religion, crime). Martin Mull plays a reporter after
the fashion of 60-Minutes investigative TV journalism,
interviewing participants as well as providing narration or
commentary directly into the camera. The 1985 CableACE Award for
Comedy Special was given to Martin Mull (executive producer),
Allen Rucker (producer), Kevin Bright (producer), and Cinemax, for
The History of White People in America. Two sequels for were made:
The History of White People in America: Volume 2, and Portrait of
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold
War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of 1989
(The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The 1989 Polish Parliamentary Election (The 1989
Polish Legislative Election): -- Solidarity's overwhelming victory
in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war
Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist
revolutions in Eastern Europe known as The Revolutions Of 1989,
leading to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm (Polish:
Sejm Kontraktowy, "Contract Parliament") and the
beginning of the Autumn of Nations. Contract Sejmis was an
agreement reached by the Polish United Workers' Party and the
Solidarity (Solidarnosc in Polish) movement following the Polish
Round Table Agreement of April 5, 1898 in which real political
power was vested in a newly created bicameral legislature and in a
president who would be the chief executive. Solidarnosc thereby
became a legitimate and legal political party. The Sejm,
officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, is the
lower house of the Polish bicameral parliament. The 1989 Polish
Legislative Election was held to elect members of the Sejm and the
recreated Senate. The first round took place on June 4,
immediately after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests in China,
with a second round on June 18. They were the first elections in
the country since the Communist Polish United Workers Party
abandoned its monopoly of power in April 1989. The Autumn Of
Nations, a play on the term Spring of Nations that is sometimes
used to describe the Revolutions Of 1848, refers to The
Revolutions of 1989, which formed part of a revolutionary wave in
the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of
communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. The
period is often also called the Fall of Communism and sometimes
called the Fall Of Nations. The events of the full-blown
revolution began in Poland and continued in Hungary, East Germany,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. One feature common to most
of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil
resistance, demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation
of one-party rule and contributing to the pressure for change.
Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country whose citizens overthrew
its Communist regime violently. Protests in Tiananmen Square
(April-June 1989) failed to stimulate major political changes in
China, but influential images of courageous defiance during that
protest helped to precipitate events in other parts of the globe.
It was the Solidarity victory in the 1989 parliamentary elections
that led to the peaceful fall of Communism in that country in the
summer of 1989. Also in June 1989, Hungary began dismantling its
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: Democracy Movements Of China : The Revolutions
Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests And Massacre (The
June Fourth Incident [Chinese: Liusi Shijian, "The Six-Four
Incident"], The Tiananmen Square Massacre., The '89 Democracy
Movement, The Tiananmen Square Incident, The Tiananmen Uprising):
-- On the darkest day of modern Chinese history, the People's
Army, using tanks, machine-guns, clubs and tear gas, opens fire in
the pre-dawn hours upon unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Armored personnel carriers then rolled into the square crushing
students still sleeping in their tents. The United States
estimates the death toll at over 3,000; the Chinese government who
ordered this attack later claimed only 300 died. Following the
massacre, over 1,600 demonstrators were rounded up and jailed,
with 27 being executed. The protest had started on April 16 as
about 1,000 students marched to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang, a
pro-reform leader within the Chinese government. Despite
government warnings, pro-reform and pro-democracy demonstrations
continued for a month drawing ever-larger crowds of young people,
eventually totaling over a million persons. On May 13, three
thousand students began an eight-day hunger strike. The government
imposed martial law on May 20 and brought in troops. On June 2, in
their first clash with the People' Army, demonstrators turned back
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 2020: The United States: The
History Of The United States: Washington, D.C.: The History Of
Washington, D.C.: The Washington Monument: The Lightning-Struck
Washington Monument: -- On the 459th anniversary of the 1561
lightning strike that destroyed the steeple of Old St. Paul's
Cathedral, never to be rebuilt, The Washington Monument likewise
becomes a "Lighting Struck Tower". That same evening,
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council decided to
officially rename the section of 16th Street in front of the White
House to "Black Lives Matter Plaza". The following day,
June 5th, two blocks of the roadway leading to The White House are
painted in yellow lettering BLACK LIVES MATTER, and a new black
and white street sign is placed at the intersection beside the
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Today, June 4, 2026
June 4, 1896: The Industrial Revolution:
The Second Industrial Revolution (1870s-1914): The Automobile: The
History Of The Automobile: The Automotive Industry: The History Of
The Automotive Industry: Automotive Firsts: The Ford Quadricycle:
-- Henry Ford completes his first gasoline-powered automobile and
gives it a successful test run. The Ford Quadricycle was the first
vehicle developed by Henry Ford. Ford's first car was a simple
frame with an ethanol-powered engine and four bicycle wheels
mounted on it. The earliest cars were hand built, one by one, and
very expensive. The peculiar machines were seen as toys for the
rich. In the 1890s, the "horseless carriage" was a
relatively new idea, with no one having a fixed, universal idea of
what a car should look like or how it should work. Most of the
first car builders were inventors, rather than businessmen,
working with their imaginations and the parts they had on hand.
Thus, the invention of the Quadricycle marks an important
innovation as a proto-automobile that would lay the foundation for
the future, with more practical designs to follow. On June 4, 1896
in a tiny workshop behind his home on 58 Bagley Avenue, Detroit,
where the Michigan Building now stands, Ford put the finishing
touches on his pure ethanol-powered motor. After more than two
years of experimentation, Ford, at the age of 32, had completed
his first experimental automobile. He dubbed his creation the
"Quadricycle," so named because it ran on four bicycle
tires, and because of the means through which the engine drove the
back wheels. The success of the little vehicle led to the founding
of the Henry Ford Company and then later the Ford Motor Company in
1903. The two cylinder engine could produce 4 horsepower. The
Quadricycle was driven by a chain. The transmission had only two
gears (first for 10 mph, 2nd for 20 mph), but did not have a
reverse gear. The tiller-steered machine had wire wheels and a 3
US gallon fuel tank under the seat. Ford test drove it on June 4,
1896, after various test drives, achieving a top speed of 20 mph.
Ford would later go on to found the Ford Motor Company and become
one of the world's richest men. Today the original Quadricycle
resides at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1928: China: The History Of
China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National
Humiliation): The Sino-Japanese Wars: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Warlord Era: The Huanggutun
Incident (Chinese: Huanggu Tun Shijian) (The Zhang Zuolin
Explosion Death Incident [Japanese: Chosakurin Bakusatsu Jiken]):
-- #DOTD: Zhang Zuolin, courtesy name Yuting, nicknamed Zhang
Laogang, patriot, bandit, soldier and Fengtian warlord, ruler of
Manchuria during the Warlord Era from 1916 to 1928, military
dictator of the Republic of China as President of The Republic Of
China (Generalissimo Of The Military Government Of China) from
1927 until his death (b. March 19, 1875) #dies when he is
assassinated by a bomb planted by infuriated Japanese Kwantung
Army agents of the Imperial Japanese Army that destroyed his
personal train at Huanggutun Railway Station near Shenyang in the
Liaoning province of China while on its way from Beijing for a
return trip to Machuria. Backed by Japan, Zhang successfully
influenced politics in the Republic of China during the early
1920s. In the fall of 1924, during the Second Zhili-Fengtian War,
he invaded and gained control of Peking, including the
internationally recognized government, in April 1926. His
appointment as grand marshal of the Republic of China in June 1927
represented the height of his success, but was quickly followed by
defeat: the economy of Manchuria, the basis of his power, was
overtaxed by his adventurism and collapsed in the winter of 1927;
and he was defeated by the National Revolutionary Army of the
Kuomintang under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in May 1928. These
failures enraged his Japanese backers, and brought about his
assassination. Zhang's death had undesirable outcomes for the
Empire Of Japan, which had hoped to advance its interests in
Manchuria at the end of the Warlord Era, and the true nature of
the incident was concealed from the Japanese people by the
Japanese army, who officially referred to it as "A Certain
Important Incident In Manchuria" (Japanese: Manshu Bou Judai
Jiken) in Japan. Zhang's his brief reign presaged the end of
Chinese warlordism by December. The incident delayed the Japanese
invasion of Manchuria for several years until the Mukden Incident
in 1931, but it also paved the way for the eventual invasion of
Manchuria.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The KGB
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1950: #BOTD: #HBD! Clifford
Stoll, American astronomer, author and teacher, is #born Clifford
Paul Stoll in Buffalo, New York. Known as Cliff Stoll, he is best
known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a systems
administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that
led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess, for Stoll's subsequent
book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation, and
for the documentary The KGB, The Computer And Me.
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1965: Civil Rights Movements: The
American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): The Presidency Of
Lyndon B. Johnson: President Lyndon B. Johnson's Commencement
Address At Howard University: -- U.S. President Lyndon Baines
Johnson uses the occasion of his giving the commencement at the
historically black college of Howard University in Washington,
D.C. to remind his audience and the nation of the long history of
racial discrimination and urged the American people to end racial
discrimination as the most important step in ensuring equality
among all of its citizens. His address: "Dr. Nabrit, my
fellow Americans: I am delighted at the chance to speak at this
important and this historic institution. Howard has long been an
outstanding center for the education of Negro Americans. Its
students are of every race and color and they come from many
countries of the world. It is truly a working example of
democratic excellence. Our earth is the home of revolution. In
every corner of every continent men charged with hope contend with
ancient ways in the pursuit of justice. They reach for the newest
of weapons to realize the oldest of dreams, that each may walk in
freedom and pride, stretching his talents, enjoying the fruits of
the earth. Our enemies may occasionally seize the day of change,
but it is the banner of our revolution they take. And our own
future is linked to this process of swift and turbulent change in
many lands in the world. But nothing in any country touches us
more profoundly, and nothing is more freighted with meaning for
our own destiny than the revolution of the Negro American. In far
too many ways American Negroes have been another nation: deprived
of freedom, crippled by hatred, the doors of opportunity closed to
hope. In our time change has come to this Nation, too. The
American Negro, acting with impressive restraint, has peacefully
protested and marched, entered the courtrooms and the seats of
government, demanding a justice that has long been denied. The
voice of the Negro was the call to action. But it is a tribute to
America that, once aroused, the courts and the Congress, the
President and most of the people, have been the allies of
progress."
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Richard A.
Peterson, fighter ace and a major in the United States Army Air
Forces (b. February 26, 1923) #dies aged 77. His burial details
are not publicly known. He was born Richard Allen Peterson in
Hancock, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota until
he left in June 1942 to become an aviation cadet. After finishing
flight training in March 1943, Peterson was assigned to the 357th
Fighter Group and had 15.5 air victories and destroyed 3.5
aircraft on the ground. His P-51 Mustang aircraft were named Hurry
Home Honey after his wife's letter closing. He is also known for
forcing a German pilot to bail out of his aircraft after
witnessing that same pilot deliberately shooting American airmen
in their parachutes, then retaliated by shooting him in his
parachute. After World War II, Peterson returned to the University
of Minnesota and obtained a degree in Architecture which became
his career. Peterson was awarded the Silver Star, Distinguished
Flying Cross with 3 oak leaf clusters, and Air Medal with 10 oak
leaf clusters.
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1941: #DOTD: Kaiser Wilhelm II,
German Emperor (b. January 27, 1859) #dies of a pulmonary embolism
in Doorn, Netherlands at the age of 82, just weeks before the Axis
invasion of the Soviet Union. Wilhelm was buried in a mausoleum in
the grounds of Huis Doorn, which has since become a place of
pilgrimage for German monarchists. A few of these gather there
every year on the anniversary of his death to pay their homage to
the last German Emperor. Despite Adolf Hitler's personal animosity
toward Wilhelm, Hitler wanted to bring his body back to Berlin for
a state funeral, as Wilhelm was a symbol of Germany and Germans
during the previous World War. Hitler felt that such a funeral
would demonstrate to the Germans the direct descent of the Third
Reich from the old German Empire. However, Wilhelm's wishes never
to return to Germany until the restoration of the monarchy were
respected, and the Nazi occupation authorities granted him a small
military funeral, with a few hundred people present. The mourners
included August von Mackensen, fully dressed in his old imperial
Life Hussars uniform, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, General Curt Haase
and Reichskommissar for the Netherlands Arthur Seyss-Inquart,
along with a few other military advisers. However, Wilhelm's
request that the swastika and other Nazi regalia not be displayed
at his funeral was ignored, and they are featured in the
photographs of the event taken by a Dutch photographer. Wilhelm
II, or William II, (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert) was the last
German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German
Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November
1918. He was the eldest grandchild of the British Queen Victoria
and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe, most notably
King George V of England and Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.
Acceding to the throne in 1888, he dismissed the Chancellor, Otto
von Bismarck, in 1890 and launched Germany on a bellicose "New
Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for
Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led in a matter of
days to the First World War. Bombastic and impetuous, he sometimes
made tactless pronouncements on sensitive topics without
consulting his ministers, culminating in a disastrous Daily
Telegraph interview in 1908 that cost him most of his influence.
When the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-western uprising in China, was
put down in 1900 by an international force of British, French,
Russian, Italian, American, Japanese, and German troops, the
Germans arrived only after the British and Japanese forces had
taken Peking, the site of the fiercest fighting. The poor
impression this created was made worse by the Kaiser's
ill-conceived "Hun" farewell address, in which he
commanded them, in the spirit of the Huns, to be merciless in
battle. The speech was infused with Wilhelm's fiery and
chauvinistic rhetoric and clearly expressed his vision of German
imperial power. The term "Hun" later became the favored
epithet of Allied anti-German war propaganda during the First
World War. His leading generals, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich
Ludendorff, dictated policy during the First World War with little
regard for the civilian government. An ineffective war-time
leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in November
1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands, where he lived in
seclusion until his death. He was given a military funeral by
Hitler. On March 3, 1904, Wilhelm II Of Germany became the first
person to make a sound recording of a political document, using
Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder. It is included on the
EarthStation1.com MP3 collection title "World War I: Historic
Music And Voices".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: SS:
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1942: #DOTD: Reinhard Heydrich,
German SS officer and politician (b. March 7, 1904) #dies of
wounds recieved in Prague on May 27 1942 as a result of Operation
Anthropoid, the ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak agents who
had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill
Reich-Protector Heydrich; the team was trained by the British
Special Operations Executive. He is buried in the
Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany. On December
28, 1941, Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate SS
Obergruppenfuehrer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich,
commenced. Heydrich was head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt
(Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services
of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of
Bohemia and Moravia. Operation Anthropoid was carried out in
Prague, Czechoslovakia on May 27, 1942 after having been prepared
by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of
the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Wounded in the attack,
Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June 1942. His death led to a
wave of merciless reprisals by German SS troops, including the
destruction of the Czechoslovakian villages of Lidice and Lezaky
and the mass execution or imprisonment of civilians in those and
other villages. Anthropoid was the only successful assassination
of a senior Nazi leader during World War II. Heydrich was one of
the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in
the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was given
overall charge of the so-called Final Solution (Holocaust) of the
Jews in Europe. Despite the risks, the Czechoslovaks decided to
undertake the operation to help confer legitimacy on the Edvard
Benes government-in-exile in London, as well as for retribution
against Heydrich's harsh rule. Nazi intelligence falsely linked
the assassins to the villages of Lidice and Lezaky. The Nazis in
Czechoslovakia killed over 1,800 people in the Czech villages of
Lidice and Lezaky. Both villages were razed and completely leveled
until not a trace remained; all men and boys over the age of 16
were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were
deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. The women of
Lidice were deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp where most
died. Ninety Lidice young children were sent to the concentration
camp at Gneisenau, with some later taken to Nazi orphanages if
they were German looking. Reinhard Heydrich was born Reinhard
Tristan Eugen Heydrichin Halle an der Saale to composer and opera
singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife, Elisabeth Anna Maria
Amalia Heydrich (nee Krantz). Reinhard was an altar boy, attending
evening prayers and Mass every week with his mother as part of the
Catholic minority in Halle. Two of his forenames were musical
references: "Reinhard" referred to the hero from his
father's opera Amen, and "Tristan" stems from Richard
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Heydrich's third name, "Eugen",
was his late maternal grandfather's forename (Eugen Krantz had
been the director of the Dresden Royal Conservatory).
SS-Obergruppenfuehrer und General der Polizei (Senior Group Leader
and General of Police) as well as chief of the Reich Main Security
Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also
Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector)
of Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich served as president of the
International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC; later known as
Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which
formalised plans for the Final Solution to "the Jewish
Question", the deportation and genocide of all Jews in
German-occupied Europe. He was the founding head of the
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), an intelligence organisation charged with
seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via
arrests, deportations, and murders. He helped organise
Kristallnacht, a series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews
throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9-10 November
1938. The attacks, carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians,
presaged the Holocaust. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich
sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by
suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of
the Czech resistance. He was directly responsible for the
Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces which travelled in the
wake of the German armies and murdered over two million people,
including 1.3 million Jews, by mass shooting and gassing.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1970: #DOTD: #RIP: Menasha
Skulnik, American actor, primarily known for his roles in Yiddish
theater in New York City, also popular on radio, playing Uncle
David on The Goldbergs for 19 years, as well as on many television
and Broadway, including successful runs in Clifford Odets's The
Flowering Peach and Harold Rome's The Zulu And The Zayda (b. May
15, 1890) #dies in New York City, aged 80, having collapsed on
stage several weeks earlier in New Haven, Connecticut, during a
dress rehearsal of a show he was bringing to Broadway. He is
buried in the Yiddish theater section of the Mount Hebron
Cemetery. Menasha Skulnik was born in Warsaw, Poland, Skulnik
reportedly ran away at the age of 10 to join a circus. In 1913 he
emigrated to the United States, and sometime after his arrival
joined a Yiddish stock company in Philadelphia, where his fellow
actors included Molly Picon, American actress of stage, screen,
radio and television. His diminutive stature (5'4"), high
nasal voice, mannerisms and appearance, made him a natural for
comedy. Skulnik knew exactly what he was in comedy: "I play a
schlemiel, a dope. Sometimes they call me the Yiddish Charlie
Chaplin, and I don't like this. Chaplin's dope is a little bit of
a wiseguy. He's got a little larceny in him. I am a pure
schlemiel, with no string attached." Skulnik was dubbed "The
East Side's Chaplin" by the New York Evening Journal in 1935.
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1990: #DOTD: #RIP: Jack Gilford,
American Yiddish theater, Broadway, film, and television actor and
comedian, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for Save The Tiger (1973) (b. July 25, 1908 ) #dies
following a year-long battle with stomach cancer in his Greenwich
Village home, aged 81. Gilford is buried in the Yiddish theater
section of Flushing, New York's Mount Hebron Cemetery. Jack
Gilford was born Jacob Aaron Gellman on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan and grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His parents were
Romanian-born Jewish immigrants Sophie "Susksa" (nee
Jackness), who owned a restaurant, and Aaron Gellman, a furrier.
Gilford was the second of three sons, with an older brother Murray
("Moisha") and a younger brother Nathaniel ("Natie").
Gilford was discovered working in a pharmacy by his mentor Milton
Berle. While working in amateur theater, he competed with other
talented youngsters, including a young Jackie Gleason. He started
doing imitations and impersonations. His first appearance on film
was a short entitled Midnight Melodies in which he did his
imitations of George Jessel, Rudy Vallee and Harry Langdon.
Gilford developed some unique impressions that became his
trademarks - most notably, one of "split pea soup coming to a
furious boil" using only his face. Other unusual impressions
he created were a fluorescent light going on in a dark room, John
D. Rockefeller Sr. imitating Jimmy Durante, and impressions of
animals. In 1938, Gilford worked as the master of ceremonies in
the first downtown New York integrated nightclub, Cafe Society
owned and operated by Barney Josephson. He was a unique blend of
the earlier style of the Yiddish theater, vaudeville and
burlesque, and started the tradition of monology such as later
comedians Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen used. He won numerous
industry awards. Gilford was nominated for several Tony Awards for
best supporting actor as Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum (1963), and for his role as Herr Schultz in
Cabaret (1966). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor in (1973) for his role as Phil Green in Save the
Tiger (his co-star Jack Lemmon won for Best Actor). Sir Rudolf
Bing engaged Gilford for the comic speaking role of the tippling
jailer Frosch in the operetta Die Fledermaus. Loved in the part,
Gilford performed it 77 times between 1950 and 1964. One of
Gilford's specialties was pantomime, and this talent was put to
good use by director George Abbott when he cast Gilford as the
silent King Sextimus in Once Upon a Mattress (Off-Broadway, 1959).
Gilford shared the stage with a young Carol Burnett in this
production, and reprised his performance with her in two separate
televised versions of the show, in 1964 and in 1972. Gilford's
career was derailed for a time during the 1950s and McCarthyism.
He was an activist who campaigned for social change, integration
and labor unions. He was quite active both socially and
politically in left-wing causes, as was his wife, Madeline Lee. In
1953 Gilford and Lee were called to testify before the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) regarding their alleged
Communist sympathies, after being specifically named by
choreographer Jerome Robbins in his own testimony to the
committee. The couple had difficulty finding work during much of
the rest of the 1950s due to the Hollywood blacklist, and often
had to borrow money from friends to make ends meet. Gilford found
work towards the end of the 1950s and during the early 1960s with
the end of the Joseph McCarthy era. He made his comeback as
Hysterium in the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum. He co-starred in the play with his close
friend, Zero Mostel, who was also blacklisted during the McCarthy
era. This production was also choreographed by Jerome Robbins, who
had previously testified against Gilford before House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1953. Gilford became successful mostly
through roles on the Broadway stage, such as Drink To Me Only,
Romanoff and Juliet, and The Diary of Anne Frank. He later enjoyed
success in film (one of his notable roles was in the 1985 film
Cocoon) and television, as well as a series of nationwide
television commercials for Cracker Jack and Drake's Cakes' Devil
Dogs. Gilford met actress (and later producer) Madeline Lee at
progressive political meetings and events during the late 1940s.
Gilford entertained at many of these events, some of them produced
by Lee. She was married at the time and divorced her first husband
soon after meeting Gilford. The couple married in 1949, remaining
together for 40 years until his death in 1990. The couple raised
three children: Lisa Gilford, a producer (from Lee's previous
marriage); Joe Gilford, a screenwriter/playwright/stage director;
and Sam Max Gilford, an artist/archivist. In July 2008, Josh
Radnor and Jennifer Westfeldt starred in the premiere of the play
Finks, based on the Gilfords' experiences with HUAC and the
Hollywood blacklist, written by Joe Gilford (their son), and
directed by Charlie Stratton for stage and film. The play was
produced Off-Broadway at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre in
April 2013. The New York Times called it a "bracing play"
that "quickly leaves you not caring that you've visited the
territory before." Finks was nominated for a Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Play, with Miriam Silverman nominated for
Outstanding Actress in a Play.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Herb Reed,
American singer and both founding andnaming member of The
Platters, known for timeless hits such as Only You (and You Alone)
and The Great Pretender (b. August 7, 1928) #dies from
complications from several ailments, including heart disease, at a
hospice in Boston on June 4, 2012, aged 83. He is buried in
Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody, Massachusetts. Herb Reed
was born Herbert Reed into poverty in Kansas City, Missouri. Reed
was the last surviving original member of the group, which he
co-founded with Joe Jefferson, Alex Hodge, and Cornell Gunter (who
later founded The Coasters) in 1952. Reed is credited with
creating The Platters' name; Reed thought of the group's name
after noticing that DJs in the 1950s called their records
"platters". The Platters are one of the most successful
vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. The group had 40
charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and
1967, including four number-one hits. Originally, their
distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley
tradition and the burgeoning new genre. The act went through
several personnel changes, with one of the most successful
incarnations comprising lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch,
Paul Robi, Herb Reed, and Zola Taylor, the same line-up of The
Platters that appeared in the first rock'n'roll film, Rock Around
the Clock. He was the only member of The Platters who sang on all
of the approximately 400 songs recorded by the group. His
background vocals can be heard on The Platters' biggest hits,
including "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Great
Pretender", "Twilight Time", and "My Prayer".
He is the lead vocalist on "Sixteen Tons", "Singin'
in the Rain", "In a Little Spanish Town", "Sleepy
Time Gal", "Darktown Strutters' Ball", "Blues
in the Night", and "On the Top of My Mind". As the
last surviving original member of The Platters, Reed waged a long
but successful federal court battle over the rights to the name,
The Platters. The courts ruled that Reed was the only heir to the
group's name. In 2012, Reed said in an interview, "It's not
right to have someone steal your name. It's just not right. We
were cheated back then, but that's how things were done...It's
theft, and I have to fight it so that no other artist faces this."
He moved to the Boston area during the 1970s after the success of
The Platters. Reed toured throughout his career. He performed as
many as 200 concerts per year until 2012, when he stopped due to
declining health. In 1990, Reed was elected to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a member of The Platters.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: It Was
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1997: #DOTD: #RIP: Ronnie Lane,
nicknamed Plonk and Three-Piece, English singer, songwriter,
guitarist, bass player and record producer, best known as the bass
guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and
roll bands: Small Faces (1965-69) and subsequently Faces (1969-73)
(b. April 1, 1946) #dies of pneumonia in the final stages of 21
years of multiple sclerosis at his home in Trinidad, Colorado at
the age of 51. He is buried at The Masonic Cemetery in Trinidad,
Colorado; there is no publicly available evidence that he was a
Freemason. He had been supported by charity projects and financial
contributions from friends, former bandmates such as Jimmy Page,
Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, and fans. He was born Ronald
Frederick Lane in Plaistow, Essex, England. With Small Faces he
was nicknamed "Plonk". After their breakup and the
formation as Faces, he acquired the nickname "Three-Piece".
In 1973, Lane quit Faces. Subsequently, he collaborated with other
musicians, leading his own bands and pursuing a solo career, while
remaining close to his former bandmates. For his work in both
Small Faces and Faces, Lane was inducted posthumously into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1798 #DOTD: #RIP: Giacomo
Casanova, Italian romantic, explorer and author (b. April 2, 1725)
#dies at the age of 73 in Dux, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (now
Duchcov, Czech Republic). His last words are said to have been "I
have lived as a philosopher and I die as a Christian".
Casanova was buried at Dux, but the location of his grave has been
forgotten. Giacomo Casanova was born Giacomo Girolamo Casanova in
Venice, Republic of Venice (now Italy). His autobiography, Story
of My Life, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of
the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th
century. As was not uncommon at the time, Casanova, depending on
circumstances, used more or less fictitious names, such as baron
or count of Farussi (the name of his mother) or "Chevalier de
Seingalt" He often signed his works "Jacques Casanova de
Seingalt" after he began writing in French following his
second exile from Venice. He has become so famous for his often
complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now
synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European
royalty, popes, and cardinals, along with luminaries such as
Voltaire, Goethe, and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia
as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, the House of
Waldstein, whose most prominent members include Albrecht von
Wallenstein, the Imperial general during the Thirty Years' War,
and Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein, a statesman and early patron of
Ludwig van Beethoven; it was there that Casanova wrote the story
of his life.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Women's
Rights Women's Suffrage The Women's Movement MP4 Download DVD
Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1919: Feminism: The Feminist
Movement (The Women's Movement): Women's Suffrage In The United
States: The Constitution Of The United States: The Nineteenth
Amendment To The United States Constitution (Amendment XIX): --
The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States
Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to
the U.S. states for ratification. It was adopted by states'
ratification on August 18, 1920. The amendment was the culmination
of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which
fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. It
effectively overruled Minor v. Happersett (1875), in which a
unanimous US Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did
not give women the right to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment
enfranchised 26 million American women in time for the 1920 U.S.
presidential election, but the powerful women's voting bloc that
many politicians feared failed to fully materialize until decades
later. Additionally, the Nineteenth Amendment failed to fully
enfranchise African American, Asian American, Hispanic American,
and Native American women. Shortly after the amendment's adoption,
Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party began work on the Equal
Rights Amendment, which they believed was a necessary additional
step towards equality. The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to
the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its
states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United
States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of
women to a vote. The amendment was the culmination of a
decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States,
at both the state and national levels, and was part of the
worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider
women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was
introduced in Congress in 1878. However, a suffrage amendment did
not pass the House of Representatives until May 21, 1919, which
was quickly followed by the Senate, on June 4, 1919. It was then
submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite
36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby go into effect,
on August 18, 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment's adoption was
certified on August 26, 1920. Before 1776, women had a vote in
several of the colonies in what would become the United States,
but by 1807 every state constitution had denied women even limited
suffrage. Organizations supporting women's rights became more
active in the mid-19th century and, in 1848, the Seneca Falls
convention adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for
equality between the sexes and included a resolution urging women
to secure the vote. Pro-suffrage organizations used a variety of
tactics including legal arguments that relied on existing
amendments. After those arguments were struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court, suffrage organizations, with activists like Susan
B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, called for a new
constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the same right to vote
possessed by men. By the late 19th century, new states and
territories, particularly in the West, began to grant women the
right to vote. In 1878, a suffrage proposal that would eventually
become the Nineteenth Amendment was introduced to Congress, but
was rejected in 1887. In the 1890s, suffrage organizations focused
on a national amendment while still working at state and local
levels. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul emerged as important leaders
whose different strategies helped move the Nineteenth Amendment
forward. Entry of the United States into World War I helped to
shift public perception of women's suffrage. The National American
Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, supported
the war effort, making the case that women should be rewarded with
enfranchisement for their patriotic wartime service. The National
Woman's Party staged marches, demonstrations, and hunger strikes
while pointing out the contradictions of fighting abroad for
democracy while limiting it at home by denying women the right to
vote. The work of both organizations swayed public opinion,
prompting President Woodrow Wilson to announce his support of the
suffrage amendment in 1918. It passed in 1919 and was adopted in
1920, withstanding two legal challenges, Leser v. Garnett and
Fairchild v. Hughes.
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Today, June 4, 2026June 4, 1968: #DOTD: #RIP: Dorothy Gish,
American actress of the screen and stage, film director, writer
and beauty (b. March 11, 1898) #dies at the age of 70 from
bronchial pneumonia at a clinic in Rapallo, Italy, where she had
been a patient for two years to treat hardening arteries. Her
sister Lillian, who was filming in Rome, was at her bedside. The
New York Times reported the day after her death that the United
States consulate in Genoa was making arrangements to cremate "Miss
Gish's body" for return to the United States. The ashes were
later entombed in Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York
City in the columbarium in the undercroft of the church. Lillian,
who died in 1993, was interred beside her. Dorothy Gish was born
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish in Dayton, Ohio. She had an older sister,
Lillian, who like Lillian was a pioneering actress of the screen,
stage, film director, writer and beauty. Dorothy and her sister
Lillian were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had
great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American
Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian,
and many of her films were comedies.
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