June 4 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 4

• 1975Angelina Jolie, American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian, and activist
• 1976Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and politician
• 1985Lukas Podolski, German footballer
• 1694François Quesnay, French economist and physician
• 1877Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1991Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer
• 2001Takefusa Kubo, Japanese footballer
• 1907Rosalind Russell, American actress
• 1916Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1985Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and actress

What happened on June 4

• 1411King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening of Roquefort cheese.
• 1784Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, covering a distance of 4 km (2.5 mi) and reaching an estimated altitude of 1,500 m (4,900 ft).
• 1812Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
• 1876An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• 1878Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 1896Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and also gives it a successful test run.
• 1912Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• 1919Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
• 1946in Argentina assumes its first presidency Juan Domingo Perón.
• 1975Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, one of the first laws in the United States guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to farmworkers.
• 1979Jerry Rawlings came to power in Ghana as chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.
• 2005The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș was founded to represent and promote the interests of ethnic Romanians in areas with large Hungarian populations.

Also observed on June 4

• Trianon Treaty Day (Romania)