Today In History
Today is Saturday, June 4, the 156th day of 2016. There are 210 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1783: The Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hotair balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.
ON THIS DATE
› 1784: Opera singer Elisabeth Thible became the first woman to make a non-tethered flight aboard a Montgolfier hotair balloon, over Lyon, France. ›
1892: The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco. ›
1919: Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification. ›
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. ›
1954: French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according “complete independence” to Vietnam. › 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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer is 88. Actor Bruce Dern is 80. Musician Roger Ball is 72. Actress-singer Michelle Phillips is 72. Jazz musician Anthony Braxton is 71. Rock musician Danny Brown (The Fixx) is 65. Actor Parker Stevenson is 64. Actor Keith David is 60. Actress Julie Gholson is 58. A Singer-musician El DeBarge is 55. Actor Sean Pertwee is 52. Tennis player Andrea Jaeger is 51. Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli is 50. Rhythm-andblues singer Al B. Sure! is 48. Actor Scott Wolf is 48. Actor-comedian Rob Huebel is 47. Comedian Horatio Sanz is 47. Actor Noah Wyle is 45. Rock musician Stefan Lessard (The Dave Matthews Band) is 42. Actor-comedian Russell Brand is 41. Actress Angelina Jolie is 41. Rock musician JoJo Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 36. Country musician Dean Berner (Edens Edge) is 35. Olympic gold medal figure skater Evan Lysacek is 31. Americana singer Shakey Graves is 29. Rock musician Zac Farro is 26.