What happend on 4th June

03.06
05.06
1944

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

1943

Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

1942

World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).

1940

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is published.

1939

Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

1936

Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.

1926

Robert Earl Hughes sets current record for world's heaviest human.

1920

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

1919

Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1917

The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.