June 04

Section: June 04

Damage estimated to cost £15,000 caused by fans who dug up the pitch at Wembley after Scotland defeated England, 2-1.

June 4, 1977

Evacuation of Dunkirk (which began on May 27) was completed., 338,226 soldiers were brought back to the UK by the little ships.

June 4, 1940

Winston Churchill made his speech to the nation

June 4, 1940

Charlotte Grace OBrien, Irish social reformer dies

June 4, 1909

Robert Dudley Edwards, historian, is born in Dublin

June 4, 1909

Months of serious rioting begin in Belfast on this date

June 4, 1886

Neilí Ni Bhriain, Irish Gaelic League activist, is born

June 4, 1864

Bob Fitzsimmons, Cornish boxer, worlds middleweight champion 1891- worlds heavyweight champion 1897- born.

June 4, 1862

Great Reform Bill, which disenfranchised rotten burghs, came into force.

June 4, 1832

Henry Grattan, dies

June 4, 1820

First recorded inter-club golf match between Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society and Bruntsfield Links Golf Club.

June 4, 1818

In Co. Wexford, Government troops march south out of Gorey

June 4, 1798

Lord Edward Fitzgerald dies at Newgate prison from wounds sustained in the course of his arrest

June 4, 1798

Allegedly, the date when the robbery of the Golden Lyons cargo takes place at Ballyheige Co. Kerry

June 4, 1731

The Merchant Maiden Hospital, later known as The Mary Erskine School, was founded by Mary Erskine in the Cowgate, Edinburgh.

June 4, 1694

Ireton, Oliver Cromwells son-in-law, lays siege to Limerick city

June 4, 1651

Thomas FitzGerald, Kildares brother, accompanies Simnels army of German mercenaries and some Irishmen to England on this date

June 4, 1487