Today is Monday, June 4, the 155th day of 2007. There are 210 days left in the year.

Today's highlight in history:

On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway began during World War II.

On this date:

1070 Roqueford cheese is accidentally discovered in a cave near Roqueford, France, when a sheperd finds a lunch he had forgotten several days before.

1615 The fortress at Osaka, Japan, falls to Shogun Leyasu after a six-month siege.

1647 Parliamentary forces capture King Charles I and hold him prisoner.

1717 The Freemasons are founded in London.

1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.

1784, Elizabeth Thible became the first woman to fly aboard a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, over Lyon, France.

1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.

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

1805 Tripoli is forced to conclude peace with the United States after a conflict over tribute.

1816 The Washington was launched at Wheeling, WV. It was the first stately, double-decker steamboat.

1859 The French army, under Napoleon III, takes Magenta from the Austrian army.

1864 Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreat to the mountains in Georgia.

1878, the Ottoman Empire turned over control of Cyprus to the British.

1892, the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.

1896, Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a "quadricycle," through the streets of Detroit.

1911 Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.

1918 French and American troops halt Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.

1919 The U.S. Senate passes the Women's Suffrage bill.

1924 An eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square Park in New York City in memory of all New York soldiers who died in World War I.

1931 The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.

1939 The first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a folding chair that had been mounted on wheels.

1940, the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ended.

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 halted Japanese expansion in the Pacific.

1943 In Argentina, Juan Peron takes part in the military coup that overthrows Ramon S. Castillo.

1944 The U-505 becomes the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.

1944 Allied troops liberate Rome.

1946 Juan Peron is installed as Argentina's president.

1947, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a House-Senate conference report on the Taft-Hartley Act.

1947 Miracle on 34th Street premieres

1953 North Korea accepts the United Nations proposals in all major respects.

1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.

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

1967 Bill Cosby wins the Emmy for Best Actor, for his series I Spy. Cosby, the first black actor to star in a regular dramatic series, also won an Emmy for the show in 1966.

1972 Black activist Angela Davis is found not guilty of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy.

1974 The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans, the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers.

1979, Joe Clark of the Progressive Conservatives became the 16th prime minister of Canada.

1986 Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pled guilty in Washington to spying for Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison.

1989, hundreds, possibly thousands, of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement.

1992 The U.S. Postal Service announced that people preferred the "younger Elvis" stamp design in a nationwide vote.

1998 George and Ira Gershwin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2000 Julius "Dr. J" Erving reported his 19-year-old son, Cory, missing. His body was found on July 6, 2000.

2001 Nepal's King Dipendra died. Three days earlier, he had reportedly shot and killed most members of the royal family before turning the gun on himself.

2003 Martha Stewart was indicted on federal charges of using illegal privileged information and then obrstructing an investigation. She resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of her company the same day.

2003 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban "partial birth" abortions with a 282-139 vote.

2003 Amazon.com announced that it had received more than 1 million orders for the book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." The release date was planned for June 21.



Ten years ago:
At the Oklahoma City bombing trial, prosecutors urged the jury to sentence Timothy McVeigh to death, calling relatives of the victims to testify about their agonizing loss.


Five years ago:
President Bush said the CIA and FBI had failed to communicate adequately before the Sept. 11 terror attacks; Congress began extraordinary closed-door hearings into intelligence lapses.

A panel of U.S. Roman Catholic bishops called for a zero-tolerance policy against priests who molest children in the future and a two-strikes-he's-out policy for those guilty of past abuse.

Japan ratified the Kyoto Protocol, aimed at cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases.


One year ago:
Peru's former president, Alan Garcia, won the country's presidential runoff election.

A Palestinian standoff intensified after Hamas rejected an ultimatum from President Mahmoud Abbas to endorse a plan implicitly recognizing Israel.


Today's Birthdays:
470 Socrates, Greek philosopher
1738 George III, English king (1760-1820).
1843 Charles C. Abbott, American naturalist (Days Out of Doors).
1889 Beno Gutenberg, seismologist.
1895 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy's delegate to League of Nations.
1904 Alvah Bessie, screenwriter and novelist.
1937 Robert Fulghum, American author (All I Really need to Know I learned in Kindergarten).

Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, is 90.
Actor Bruce Dern is 71.
Musician Roger Ball is 63.
Jazz musician Anthony Braxton is 62.
Singer Gordon Waller (Peter and Gordon) is 62.
Rock musician Danny Brown (The Fixx) is 56.
Actor Parker Stevenson is 55.
Actor Keith David is 51.
Actress Julie Gholson is 49.
Actor Eddie Velez is 49.
Singer-musician El DeBarge is 46.
Actress Julie White is 46.
Tennis player Andrea Jaeger is 42.
Actor Scott Wolf is 39.
Actor Noah Wyle is 36.
Rock musician Stefan Lessard (The Dave Matthews Band) is 33.
Comedian Horatio Sanz is 33.
Actress Angelina Jolie is 32.
Rock musician JoJo Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 27.
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