TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2018 On this day in history:

1615 - The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege. 1629 - Dutch trading ship The

Batavia is shipwrecked off Australia’s western coast. 1647 - The British army seized King Charles I and held him as a hostage.

1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Britain.

1794 - British troops captured Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

1805 - Tripoli was forced to conclude peace with U.S. after conflicts over tribute.

1861 - Explorer William Wills heads for the camp of local Aborigines in his desperate search for survival.

1878 - Turkey turned Cyprus over to Britain.

1918 - French and American troops halted Germany’s offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.

1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France. 1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.

1943 - In Argentina, Juan Peron took part in the military coup that overthrew Ramon S. Castillo.

1946 - Juan Peron was installed as Argentina’s president. 1954 - French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris giving “complete independence” to Vietnam.

1960 - The Taiwan island of Quemoy was hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.

1989 - In Beijing, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square to crush the pro-democracy movement. It is believed that hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators were killed.

2008 - The United Kingdom and Canada became the first countries to be able to buy and rent films at the iTunes Store. 2010 - Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.

2015 - An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.