Today in History - History - June 4th

1991Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders

1979Joe Clark is sworn in as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history

1984Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs

1956Speech by Khrushchev criticising Stalin made public

198858th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (6-0 6-0)

1896Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit

1647English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War

19445th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1958French premier Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers

1940Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"

1971Noah Wyle, Hollywood California, actor (Dr John Carter-ER)

1975Russell Brand, British comedian and television personality

2000"Titanic" producer-director James Cameron (45) weds actress Suzy Amis (38) in Malibu, California

1960"Last Tango In Paris" actor Marlon Brando (36) weds Mexican-American actress Movita Castaneda (42)

1940Radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (21) weds radio producer Lynne Cooper

1992TV personality Steve Irwin (30) weds naturalist Terri Raines (27) in Eugene, Oregon

1913Author A.A. Milne (31) weds Dorothy Daphne de Selincourt

1978Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams (26) weds first wife Valerie Velardi

1915Canadian diplomat Vincent Massey (28) weds Alice Parkin

1924Physician Frederick Banting (32) weds Marion Robertson

1978Broadcaster Howard Stern (24) marries Alison Berns at Temple Ohabei Shalom, Brookline Massachusetts.

1951Actress Janet Leigh (23) weds actor Tony Curtis (26) in Greenwich, Connecticut

1798Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer, dies at 73

1973Arna Bontemps, American poet (Harlem Renaissance), dies of heart attack at 72 in Nashville