June 4: Battle of Hohenfriedberg, Order of the British Empire and the trial of Angela Davis

June 4, 1745 during the Second Silesian War, the Battle of Hohenfriedberg between the Prussian army under the command of Frederick the Great and the Austrian army, which was commanded by Carl Alexander of Lorraine.
1784 - Elizabeth Tibla from Lyon (France) became the first woman to be in the sky on an aircraft. The flight in the balloon "Le Gustave", named after the Swedish King Gustav III, who observed the flight, lasted 45 minutes.
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1856 - Collector of Painting Pavel Tretyakov purchased the paintings "Temptation" and "A Skirmish with Finnish Smugglers", which marked the beginning of the Tretyakov Gallery, the official opening of which was for the public on August 15, 1893.
1896 - on the streets of Detroit, Henry Ford conducted road tests of the first machine of its own design called "Quadricycle".

1917 - the establishment of the Order of the British Empire.
1922 - the birth of the Soviet satirical magazine "Crocodile". The publishing house Rabochaya Gazeta published the first weekly illustrated and satirical supplement to the newspaper Rabochy (then Rabochaya Gazeta) on 16 pages, which was first called, like the newspaper.

1940 - World War II: The end of Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops from the French city of Dunkirk.
1965 - a monument to Mikhail Lermontov was opened by sculptor Isaak Davidovich Brodsky. This monument - the same "man in the jacket," which is referred to in the famous film "Gentlemen of Fortune."

1972 - the trial of an activist of the American Communist Party by the former professor of philosophy at the University of California, Angela Davis, was convicted of supporting the murder and kidnapping of people. She was found not guilty of all charges against her.
1989 - protest action in Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital, Beijing, was brutally suppressed by tanks, hundreds of citizens were killed.

1991 - Sony released Data Discman, a portable computer for playing information on three-inch compact discs.
1996 - a project over which the European Space Agency worked for ten years, failed - when launching from the Kourou cosmodrome (French Guiana) the rocket "Ariane 5", which was capable of putting 7.6 tons of cargo into orbit, deviated from the course and exploded.