| 63901 | June 4 | Event | 1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia. |
| 63902 | June 4 | Event | 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans o |
| 63903 | June 4 | Event | 1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. |
| 63904 | June 4 | Event | 1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. |
| 63905 | June 4 | Event | 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents. |
| 63906 | June 4 | Event | 1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile. |
| 63907 | June 4 | Event | 1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in |
| 63908 | June 4 | Event | 1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the |
| 63909 | June 4 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
| 63910 | June 4 | Event | 1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. |
| 63911 | June 4 | Event | 1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. |
| 63912 | June 4 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. |
| 63913 | June 4 | Event | 1961 – In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin. |
| 63914 | June 4 | Event | 1965 – Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. |
| 63915 | June 4 | Event | 1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 63916 | June 4 | Event | 1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers. |
| 63917 | June 4 | Event | 1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. |
| 63918 | June 4 | Event | 1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. |
| 63919 | June 4 | Event | 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. |
| 63920 | June 4 | Event | 1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500. |
| 63921 | June 4 | Event | 1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
| 63922 | June 4 | Event | 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. |
| 63923 | June 4 | Event | 1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autum |
| 63924 | June 4 | Event | 1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. |
| 63925 | June 4 | Event | 1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission. |
| 63926 | June 4 | Event | 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| 63927 | June 4 | Event | 2001 – Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace. |
| 63928 | June 4 | Event | 2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. |
| 63929 | June 4 | Event | 2012 – The concert for Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee takes place outside Buckingham Palace in London. |
| 63930 | June 4 | Event | 2015 – An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing over 200 people. |