On This Day - 4th June

1832 - The Great Parlimentary reform act is passed
1913 - Suffragette Emily Davison throws herself under the Kings horse during the Derby and dies
1919 - Robert Merrill born
1922 - Gene Barry born
1924 - Dennis Weaver born
1928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer born
1936 - Bruce Dern born
1940 - The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has described the "miracle of deliverance" from Dunkirk as the last of the allied troops are evacuated and warned of an impending invasion.

1942 - Battle of Midway
1944 - Michelle Phillips born
1961 - Sam Harris born
1968 - Dover residents prepare to get rid of "these horrible birds" in the drive to create a cleaner, quieter seaside resort.
1971 - Noah Wyle born
1975 - Angelina Jolie born

1977 - Five British plane-spotters imprisoned in Greece for spying are released after 10 weeks in jail.
1989 - The Chinese army storms a mass demonstration in Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people.
1991 - Defence Secretary Tom King has confirms Britain will reduce the amount it spends on the army.

On This Day - 3rd June

1808 - Jefferson Davis born
1875 - Composer Georges Bizet dies
1904 - Dr. Charles Drew born
1906 - Josephine Baker born
1917 - Leo Gorcey born
1925 - Tony Curtis born
1926 - Allen Ginsberg and Colleen Dewhurst born
1942 - Curtis Mayfield born
1950 - Suzi Quatro born
1951 - Deniece Williams born
1957 - Noel Coward returns from Jamaica for a short visit to Britain and rebuffs suggestions he has become a tax exile.
1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 crashes on take-off at Orly Airport killing 130 passengers, however two of the crew on board survived.
1972 - Soldiers disperse crowds as a Protestant march against "no-go" areas in Londonderry turns violent at Craigavon Bridge.

1982 - Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, is paralysed after being shot on a London street after leaving the Dorchester Hotel.
1991 - Three members of the IRA are ambushed and killed by soldiers in Northern Ireland acting on intelligence information.

On This Day - 2nd June

1857 - Sir Edward Elgar born
1890 - Hedda Hopper born
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller born
1937 - Sally Kellerman born
1941 - Charlie Watts born
1941 - Stacy Keach born
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch born
1948 - Jerry Mathers born
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.
1955 - Dana Carvey born

1966 - The United States lands a spacecraft 'Surveyor 1' on the Moon on its first try, but four months behind the Soviet Union.
1971 - Joel Tobeck born
1972 - Wayne Brady born

1976 - Jockey Lester Piggott wins the Epsom Derby for a record seventh time, riding the French-trained Emperie.
1979 - The Pope is greeted by two million people as he sets foot on his native soil of Poland.

1985 - English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
1994 - Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.

On This Day - 1st June

1885 - Writer Victor Hugo dies
1921 - Nelson Riddle born
1926 - Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith born

1928 - Bob Monkhouse born
1930 - Edward Woodward born
1934 - Pat Boone born
1937 - Morgan Freeman born
1940 - Rene Auberjonois born
1942 - Mexico declares war on the Axis
1947 - Ron Wood born
1958 - France's General Charles de Gaulle is invited back to the helm as the crisis in Algeria threatens to bring civil war to France itself.
1970 - British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, is hit in the face with an egg thrown by a Young conservative demonstrator.
1974 - Alanis Morissette born
1979 - Rhodesia formally ends nearly 90 years of white minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
1982 - Danny Zavatsky born

1985 - More than 300 people are arrested as police intercept a convoy of hippies going to Stonehenge.
1993 - Serb forces shell a football match in Bosnia killing 11 people, including four children.
2001 - The heir to the throne of Himalayan kingdom of Nepal 'Prince Dipendra', massacres the royal family before turning the gun on himself.

On This Day - 31st May

1819 - Walt Whitman born
1894 - Fred Allen born
1898 - Norman Vincent Peale born
1902 - The Boer War ends
1908 - Don Ameche born
1922 - Denholm Elliott born
1930 - Clint Eastwood born
1938 - Peter Yarrow born
1941 - Johnny Paycheck born
1943 - Joe Namath and Sharon Gless born
1948 - John Bonham born
1950 - Gregory Harrison born
1957 - US playwright Arthur Miller is convicted of contempt of Congress after refusing to reveal the names of alleged Communist writers
1961 - Lea Thompson born
1965 - Brooke Shields born

1966 - Nguyen Thi Can becomes the fifth Buddhist in three days to set fire to herself in protest against South Vietnam's regime.
1973 - The US Senate votes to cut off funds for the bombing of Cambodia despite pleas from Dr Henry Kissinger.
1976 - Colin Farrell born
1985 - The Football Association, supported by Margaret Thatcher, bans English clubs from playing in Europe following the Heysel stadium tragedy.

1998 - Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice, leaves the Spice Girls.

On This Day - 30th May

1908 - Mel Blanc born
1909 - Benny Goodman born
1936 - Keir Dullea born
1939 - Michael J. Pollard born
1945 - Meredith MacRae born
1964 - Wynonna Judd born

1967 - The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
1972 - The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.

1981 - The president of Bangladesh, Zia Rahman, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
1990 - The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or "mad cow" disease.

2001 - Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country's biggest political scandal in recent history.

On This Day - 29th May

1874 - G.K. Chesterton born
1903 - Bob Hope born
1917 - John F. Kennedy born
1932 - Paul Erlich born
1939 - Al Unser born
1947 - Anthony Geary born
1953 - New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Also Danny Elfman born.
1956 - LaToya Jackson born
1958 - Annette Bening born
1959 - Adrian Paul born
1961 - Melissa Etheridge born
1967 - Noel Gallagher born

1968 - Manchester United become the first English club to win the European Cup beating Portuguese side Benfica by four goals to one.
1972 - Three Japanese gunmen open fire at Lod International Airport in Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.
1975 - Melanie Janine Brown born

1982 - Pope John Paul II visits Canterbury Cathedral, the first pontiff ever to do so.
1984 - Police use riot gear for the first time since the miners' strike began three before. Forming the biggest picket of the strike so far, at least 5,000 miners gathered outside Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield.

1985 - Thirty-nine Juventus fans are crushed to death during rioting at the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels.