Today's highlight in history:
On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway began during World War II.
On this date:
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.
In 1784, Elizabeth Thible became the first woman to fly aboard a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, over Lyon, France.
In 1878, the Ottoman Empire turned over control of Cyprus to the British.
In 1892, the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
In 1896, Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a "quadricycle," through the streets of Detroit.
In 1940, the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ended.
In 1947, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a House-Senate conference report on the Taft-Hartley Act.
In 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.
In 1979, Joe Clark of the Progressive Conservatives became the 16th prime minister of Canada.
In 1989, hundreds, possibly thousands, of people died as Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement.
