Historical Events, this day June 4 In 1784, Frances Marie Thible of Lyons became the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon. In 1896, Henry Ford wheeled his first car from a brick shed in Detroit and drove it around darkened streets on a trial run. In 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. In 1940, the World War II evacuation of Dunkirk, France, was completed. A flotilla of small boats spent nearly a week crossing the English Channel to rescue nearly 350,000 British, French and Belgian troops from advancing German forces. In 1944, the last of German occupiers fled Rome ahead of the advancing U.S. 9th Army. In 1972, black militant Angela Davis was acquitted of murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy charges stemming from a California courtroom shootout in which a judge and three other people were killed. In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Alabama minute-of-silence law as specifically fostering classroom prayer. In 1989, in what became known as the Tiananmen Square massacre, hundreds of pro-democracy students were reported killed and thousands wounded as Chinese troops removed demonstrators from the square in Beijing. In 1990, an Oregon woman, Janet Adkins, killed herself in Michigan using a suicide machine developed by Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian. She was the retired pathologists first reported medicide patient. In 1991, Albanias Cabinet resigned, ending 46 years of Communist rule. In 1992, U.S. Postal Service officials announced that a 1950s-era Elvis Presley portrait was chosen overwhelmingly over an older Las Vegas-style Elvis in a nationwide vote for a new postage stamp honoring The King. In 1998, Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his part in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. In 2005, the Covington Diocese in Kentucky agreed to pay up to $120 million to more than 100 alleged victims of child molestation from the last 50 years. In 2006, former Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez regained the presidency in a runoff victory over Ollanta Humula Tasso. In 2009, the U.S. government reported the nations unemployment rate in June reached 9.4 percent, its highest figure in 26 years. The report said 14.5 million Americans were out of work. In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama named Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. director of national intelligence. In 2013, Republican Jason Smith won a special election to take a Missouri congressional seat vacated by Jo Ann Emerson, also of the GOP.
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