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| June 4th, 2001 | Event | Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace. |
| June 4th, 1998 | Event | Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| June 4th, 1991 | Event | The United Kingdom s Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others - the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years. |
| June 4th, 1989 | Event | Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
| June 4th, 1989 | Event | Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by People s Liberation Army. Many people are killed. |
| June 4th, 1989 | Event | Solidarity s victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm. |
| June 4th, 1989 | Event | Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. |
| June 4th, 1986 | Event | Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. |
| June 4th, 1979 | Event | Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. |
| June 4th, 1973 | Event | A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain. |
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