It happened one 04 June

1919 : The U.S. Congress grants the right to vote to women


On June 4, 1919, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted by Congress : it granted the right to vote to women. This development was made possible thanks to a movement for women's suffrage very active in the country.

1940 : End of the evacuation at Dunkirk


On June 4, 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk had to stop when German troops captured the beach port. Operation Dynamo, which began on May 26 and had the goal of evacuating as many troops as possible with every boats possible, managed to evacuate more than 338,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers.

1942 : Start the Battle of Midway


On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway began, in the middle of the Pacific. The Japanese had planned to attack to destroy the last ships of U.S. forces. However, U.S. intelligence managed to intercept and decode Japanese messages, and the american troops actually anticipated the attack. Despite a fierce battle, the Japanese forces were stopped and very significant damage were done to their fleet. This battle marked the turning point of the Pacific War: From this moment, U.S. forces began the offensive on Guadalcanal and did not stop until the final victory.

1989 : Tiananmen Square Massacre


On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops, who began the day before to invest the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where hundreds of thousands of students had gathered for weeks to demand more democracy, fired on the crowd killing hundreds of people and arrested over 10,000 people.
Chinese repression shocked in many countries including in the Soviet Union then in full democratization and Mikhail Gorbachev expressed his grief at these events.

1989 : Pipeline explosion in Russia


On June 4, 1989, a natural-gas pipeline exploded just before the passage of two trains, in the Ural Mountains in Russia. Nearly 600 people were killed and many others severely burned. The accident was caused by mishandling of technicians of the pipeline.

Quote of the day : 04 June

Angelina Jolie
If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Birthdays : 04 June

Mabel Lucie Attwell, British illustrator (1879)
Mary Rose-Anna Travers (La Bolduc), Canadian singer (1894)
Rosalind Russell, American actress (1907)
Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1916)
John Drew Barrymore, American actor (1932)
Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (1934)
Nutan, Indian actress (1936)
Bruce Dern, American actor (1936)
Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer (1942)
Antoine, French singer (1944)
Paul Stewart, English writer of children's books (1955)
Val McDermid, Scotish writer (1955)
Keith David, American actor (1956)
Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer (1966)
Scott Wolf, American actor (1968)
Izabella Scorupco, Polish actress (1970)
James Callis, English actor (1971)
Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1971)
Noah Wyle, American actor (1971)
Angelina Jolie, American actress (1975)
Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player (1976)
Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer (1977)
Alex Manninger, Austrian footballeur (1977)
Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer (1983)
Koffi Ndri Romaric, Ivorian footballer (1983)
Evan Lysacek, American figure skater (1985)
Bar Refaeli, Israeli model (1985)

They left us one 04 June

Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan independence leader (1830)
Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (1928)
Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office in nazi Germany (1942)
Katherine MacDonald, American actress (1956)
Dorothy Gish, American actress (1968)
Maurice Fréchet, French mathematician (1973)
Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (2004)

Tip of the Day : 04 June

Getting rid of Cetoniae


The Cetoniae increasingly invade gardens and the larvae of these beetles destroy the flowers we lovingly planted. They are particularly fond of clear color flowers and if nothing is done, all our roses can be eaten.
Cetoniae proliferation is mainly due to the disappearance of their main predator, the scolia hirsuta, a wasp which parasitizes their larvae.
To get rid of Cetoniae, except starting to raise scolia hirsuta in our garden, (these wasps are not aggressive but their sting is very painful), we can try to apply a Bordeaux mixture or ferns manure.
To make ferns manure, macerate 1kg fern (preferably bracken fern) in 10 l of rainwater for a week. Filter and spray on infested plants.
The most effective method remains to destroy the larvae by hand.

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