04 June – This Day in History

This Day in History on 4th June

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On this page, we will list all historical events that have occurred on 4th June. The students can refer them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.

Important Days:

• International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (International)
• National Unity Day (Hungary)
• Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Memorial Day (International)

Important Events:

• 1903: Gandhiji established the weekly journal “”Indian Opinion”” organised at Phoenix farm near Dur
• 1972: First Environment Day.
• 1926: Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
• 1941: National Seva Dal was established.
• 1947: Hindi daily ‘Nai Duniya’ started publication at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
• 1953: University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
• 1955: Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.
• 1958: The three-men Indian Mountaineering group successfully climbed the high Peak in the Garhwal Hills Range.

• 1959: Chakravarti Rajagopalachari opposed the Socialist Policies of Indian National Congress and founded Swatantra Party along with Ranga.

 

Birthday / Anniversary:

• 1936: Nutan, film actress, was born.
• 1902: Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
• 1912: Alungal Mathai Thomas, social reformer, politician and diplomat, was born at Kurikad, Kerala.
• 1904: Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (d. 1992)

 
 
 
 
 
 

Death / Death Anniversary:

 

• 1932: Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramhans, passed away.

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  1947: Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit ofBuddhism, passed away.
• 1986: Masti Vyanktesh Iyengar, famous Kannad author and Gyanpeeth Puraskar awardee, passed away.