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On June 4, 1411: King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, as they had been doing for centuries.

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Featured moment · 1411

King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, as they had been doing for centuries.

Charles VI, nicknamed the Beloved and in the 19th century, the Mad, was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422. He is known for his mental illness and psychotic episodes that plagued him throughout his life, including glass delusion.

People

Born on June 4

Princess Lilibet of Sussex 2021– British princess (born 2021)
Mackenzie Ziegler 2004– American singer and actress (born 2004)
Takefusa Kubo 2001– Japanese footballer (born 2001)
Kim So-hyun 1999– South Korean actress (born 1999)
Drew Pavlou 1999– Australian political activist (born 1999)
Central Cee 1998– British rapper (born 1998)
Oli McBurnie 1996– Scottish footballer (born 1996)
Jonathan Huberdeau 1993– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Juan Iturbe 1993– Paraguayan footballer (born 1993)
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Aaron Nola 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
Annika Taylor 1993– British-American cross-country skier
Jordan Hugill 1992– English footballer
Lorenzo Insigne 1991– Italian footballer (born 1991)
Matt McIlwrick 1991– New Zealand rugby league footballer
Ben Stokes 1991– English cricketer (born 1991)
Rajiv van La Parra 1991– Dutch professional footballer (born 1991)
Evan Spiegel 1990– American businessman (born 1990)
Federico Erba 1989– Italian footballer

People

Died on June 4

Marc Garneau Canadian astronaut and politician (1949–2025)
John Blackman Australian radio and television presenter (1947–2024)
Parnelli Jones American racing driver (1933–2024)
Sulochana Latkar Indian actress (1928–2023)
George Lamming Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet (1927–2022)
Clarence Williams III American actor (1939–2021)
Juan Goytisolo Spanish writer, poet and novelist
Carmen Pereira Bissau-Guinean politician
Marguerite Patten English food writer and broadcaster
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Leonid Plyushch Ukrainian mathematician (1938–2015)
Jabe Thomas American racing driver (1930–2015)
Anne Warburton British diplomat (1927–2015)
George Ho Hong Kong businessman
Nathan Shamuyarira Zimbabwean nationalist
Sydney Templeman British judge
Don Zimmer American baseball player and manager (1931–2014)
Walt Arfons American racing driver
Joey Covington American drummer (1945 – 2013)

Timeline

Every June 4 on record

  1. 1411 King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, as they had been doing for centuries.

    King of France from 1380 to 1422

    Charles VI, nicknamed the Beloved and in the 19th century, the Mad, was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422. He is known for his mental illness and psychotic episodes that plagued him throughout his life, including glass delusion.

  2. 1525 1525 Bayham Abbey riot; Villagers from Kent and Sussex, England riot and occupy Bayham Old Abbey for a week in protest against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's order to suppress the monastery in order to fund two colleges founded by him.

    Civil disorder in Kent, England

    The 1525 Bayham Abbey riot was a civil disturbance on 4 June 1525 in Kent, England. It was instigated by local residents near Bayham Abbey in protest against the closure of the Abbey. The rioters occupied the Abbey for a week before 31 were arrested.

  3. 1561 The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning, and is never rebuilt.

    Tall tower, usually on a church or public building

    In architecture, a steeple is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religious structure. They might be stand-alone structures, or incorporated into the entrance or center of the building.

  4. 1615 Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.

    1614-15 series of battles in Japan at the end of the Sengoku Period

    The siege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and the summer campaign, it lasted from 1614 to 1615. The siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.

  5. 1745 Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeat an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.

    Prussia v. Austria and Saxony, 1745, Second Silesian War

    The Battle of Hohenfriedberg or Hohenfriedeberg, also known as the Battle of Striegau was one of Frederick the Great's most admired victories. Frederick's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austro-Saxon army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on June 4, 1745, during the Second Silesian War – part of the War of the Austrian Succession.

  6. 1760 Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
  7. 1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
  8. 1784 Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres (2.5 mi) in 45 minutes, and reached an estimated 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in altitude.
  9. 1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  10. 1796 The siege of Mantua begins when Napoleon Bonaparte lays siege to the fortress of Mantua the last Austrian stronghold in Northern Italy. It will become the main focus of Napoleon's army for eight months during the Italian campaign of 1796-1797.
  11. 1802 King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
  12. 1812 Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
  13. 1825 General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York, during his visit to the United States.
  14. 1855 Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
  15. 1859 Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
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  1. 1862 American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
  2. 1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
  3. 1878 Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
  4. 1896 Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile and also gives it a successful test run.
  5. 1912 Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  6. 1913 Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
  7. 1916 World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
  8. 1917 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 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.
  9. 1919 Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
  10. 1919 Leon Trotsky bans the Planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents.
  11. 1920 Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
  12. 1928 The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
  13. 1932 Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
  14. 1939 The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 973 German 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.
  15. 1940 World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.

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