THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 4
June 4 in history
What happened on June 4: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1928, 1940 and 1942, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Huanggutun Incident
4 Jun 1928 — Officers of Japan’s Kwantung Army dynamite Zhang Zuolin’s train under his own capital, expecting his death to deliver Manchuria to them. Instead, his son Zhang Xueliang raises the Nationalist flag. Tokyo punishes no one. The officers have discovered that murder can be used to make policy.
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— Dunkirk evacuation
26 May–4 Jun 1940 — About 338,000 Allied soldiers escape from Dunkirk, many lifted from the beaches. The evacuation saves an army, but France falls later that month.
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Midway: in five minutes of dive-bombing, three Japanese fleet carriers are set ablaze. The Pacific war pivots in a morning.
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