June 4th in History

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June 4th in History

1903: A new element, Polonium, discovered by Curie husband and wife team
1938: Sigmund Freud leaves Austria for refuge in London
1942: Japanese suffer heavy losses at Midway Island
1970: Tonga independence

June 4th birthdays

1738: King George III
1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist
1910: Christopher Cockerell, Hovercraft inventor