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June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 210 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 1411 ...
At the 30th anniversary of the 4 June Incident, Wei Fenghe, a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said in the Shangri-La Dialogue: "The 4 June Incident was a turmoil and unrest. The Central Government took decisive measures to calm the unrest and stop the turmoil, and it is because of this decision that the stability within the ...
The June 4th Revolution [1] or June 4th Uprising was an uprising in Ghana in 1979 that arose due to a conflict between the lower ranks and officers in the Ghana armed forces. [2] This led to frustration among the general public and misunderstandings within the Ghanaian army. [3] [4] [5]
On the morning of 4 June, barrister Chow Hang-tung, who co-chairs the Alliance, was arrested after she posted on social media urging people to commemorate the event privately by lighting a candle wherever they were. [4] [3] She was released the next day on HK$10,000 bail, with the requirement to report to the police in a month's time. [30]
To commemorate the anniversary, a group of foreign and local journalists who had covered the 1989 Tiananmen movement in Beijing produced a series of interviews in a collective work entitled: "I am a journalist: My June 4 story". Foreign journalists who were in Beijing in 1989 spoke about the profound impact the experience had on them. [23]
On 13 June 1989, the Beijing Public Security Bureau released an order for the arrest of 21 students who they identified as leaders of the protest. [3] [4] These student leaders were part of the Beijing Students Autonomous Federation [3] [4] which had been an instrumental student organization in the Tiananmen Square protests.
On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, which recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday, making it the 11th federal holiday.
Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, in 2004. Heemeyer's machine was posthumously nicknamed the Killdozer.