TODAY IN HISTORY - June 04

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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 4:

1937 - The first supermarket trolleys were introduced in Oklahoma City.

1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, ninth king of Prussia and third German emperor (1888-1918), died in exile in the Netherlands.

1943 - Argentine President Ramon Castillo was overthrown in an army coup.

1988 - Pope John Paul rides in a Ferrari Montial.

1989 - Hundreds of Chinese student dissidents were killed in Beijing when the army moved in to remove them from Tiananmen Square; some estimates put the death toll in the thousands.

1994 - Bangladesh ordered the arrest of the feminist writer Taslima Nasreen after she told an Indian newspaper the Koran should be "thoroughly revised".

1998 - Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols sentenced to life in prison.

2002 - A flypast by Royal Airforce Red Arrows signals the end of Golden Jubilee celebrations in London to mark 50 years of Queen Elizabeth's reign.

2006 - Former president Alan Garcia beat a fiery ex-army nationalist, Ollanta Humala, in Peru's election, staging a political comeback after his 1980s government ended in economic ruin, rebel violence and accusations of rights abuses.

2007 - World's first robot to recognise itself in mirror is unveiled.

2015 - Fatal petrol station explosion in Accra, Ghana.



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