Sunday, June 4, 2000
History today -- 11:00 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1939: The SS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast.
- 1940: Allied forces completed the military evacuation from Dunkirk, France. Winston Churchill makes his "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech to the House of Commons.
- 1942: The Battle of Midway began during WW II.
- 1944: U.S. 5th Army began liberating Rome.
- 1954: French and Vietnamese officials initialed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.
- 1986: Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty to spying for Israel. (He is serving a life prison term.)
- 1989: Possibly thousands of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square.
- 1998: A federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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