Months of serious rioting begin in belfast on this date

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calendar 1977

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

June 04, 1977

calendar 1940

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

June 04, 1940

calendar 1940

Winston Churchill made his speech to the nation saying - We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hill

June 04, 1940

calendar 1909

Charlotte Grace OBrien, Irish social reformer dies

June 04, 1909

calendar 1909

Robert Dudley Edwards, historian, is born in Dublin

June 04, 1909

calendar 1864

Neilí Ni Bhriain, Irish Gaelic League activist, is born

June 04, 1864

calendar 1862

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

June 04, 1862

calendar 1832

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

June 04, 1832

calendar 1820

Henry Grattan, the moving force behind the Irish Parliament at College Green before it was dissolved by the Act of Union, dies and is buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey

June 04, 1820

calendar 1818

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

June 04, 1818

calendar 1798

In Co. Wexford, Government troops march south out of Gorey. Rebels from Carrigrew move north, they attack and defeat Government forces at Tubberneering. Government forces withdraw north. Rebels occupy Gorey

June 04, 1798

calendar 1798

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

June 04, 1798

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