TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, JUNE 4, the 155th day of 2022. There are 210 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
In 1812, the U.S. House of Representatives approved, 79-49, a declaration of war against Britain.
In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which said that the right to vote could not be denied or abridged based on gender. The amendment was sent to the states for ratification.
In 1944, U-505, a German submarine, was captured by a U.S. Navy task group in the south Atlantic; it was the first such capture of an enemy vessel at sea by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812. The U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome.
In 1967, “Mission: Impossible” won outstanding dramatic series and “The Monkees” outstanding comedy series at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards.
In 1986, Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to deliver information related to the national defense to Israel. (Pollard, sentenced to life in prison, was released on parole on Nov. 20, 2015; he moved to Israel after completing parole in December 2020.)
In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian carried out his first publicly assisted suicide, helping Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer’s patient from Portland, Oregon, end her life in Oakland County, Michigan.
In 2020, in the first of a series of memorials set for three cities over six days, celebrities, musicians and political leaders gathered in front of George Floyd’s golden casket in Minneapolis.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer is 94. Actor Bruce Dern is 86. Jazz musician Anthony Braxton is 77. Rock musician Danny Brown (The Fixx) is 71. Actor Parker Stevenson is 70. Actor Keith David is 66. Blues singermusician Tinsley Ellis is 65. Actor Eddie Velez is 64. Actor Lindsay Frost is 60. Actor Sean Pertwee is 58. Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli is 56. R&B singer Al B. Sure! and actor Scott Wolf are 54. Actors James Callis and Noah Wyle are 51. Actor-comedian Russell Brand, and actors Angelina Jolie and Theo Rossi are 47. Alt-country singer Kasey Chambers is 46. Rock musician JoJo Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 42. Model Bar Refaeli and Olympic gold medal figure skater Evan Lysacek are 37. Rock musician Zac Farro is 32.