15 Khordad 1399

Events

• 1561 (465 years ago) The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning, and is never rebuilt.
• 1876 (150 years ago) An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• 1920 (106 years ago) Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim.
• 1943 (83 years ago) A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
• 1946 (80 years ago) in Argentina assumes its first presidency Juan Domingo Perón.
• 1986 (40 years ago) Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
• 1988 (38 years ago) Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.

Births

• 1738 (288 years ago) George III of the United Kingdom,
• 1867 (159 years ago) Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland (died 1951)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece (died 2021)
• 1952 (74 years ago) Bronisław Komorowski, Polish historian and politician, 5th President of Poland
• 1971 (55 years ago) Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1975 (51 years ago) Angelina Jolie, American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian, and activist
• 1976 (50 years ago) Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and politician (died 2024)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Lukas Podolski, German footballer

Deaths

• 1039 (987 years ago) Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 990)
• 1798 (228 years ago) Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and author (born 1725)
• 1830 (196 years ago) Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (born 1795)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (born 1804)
• 1876 (150 years ago) Abdulaziz, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1830)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Wilhelm II, German Emperor (born 1859)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (born 1904)
• 1971 (55 years ago) György Lukács, Hungarian historian and philosopher (born 1885)

All 359 events, births and deaths of June 4