June 4

Today in History
• 781 BC - Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
• 1070 - Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
• 1391 - Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville
• 1615 - Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan
• 1756 - Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
• 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia
• 1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned)
• 1812 - Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• National Cancer Survivors Day
• National Cheese Day
• National Hug Your Cat Day
• National Old Maids Day
• National SAFE Day
• Orthodox Pentecost Sunday
• Sant Guru Kabir Jayanti
• Shopping Cart Day

Birthdays
• 1394 - Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
• 1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer
• 1738 - George III, English King during American Revolution, 1760-1820
• 1744 - Patrick Ferguson, Scottish army officer and rifle inventor (Ferguson flintlock rifle)
• 1855 - Inukai Tsuyoshi, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1931-32)
• 1866 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish first female minister and a key figure in the workers' movement
• 1867 - Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46
• 1915 - Modibo Keita, president of Mali, 1960-68