A look back at events in history on June 4 with Mike Badham

1738: George III was born. Although he figures as a tyrant in American history books, he was really quite a nice old boy who loved his people and enjoyed farming.

1768: Giacomo Casanova died. A former diplomat and spy, his best-known exploits were in the boudoir, thanks to his frank memoirs.

1870: The Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, banned guns from the lawless cow town. Tom Smith never carried a gun himself, because he had once killed a man by accident. He relied on his fists to keep order.

1913: Brave suffragette Emily Davison was killed at the Derby. The event was caught on film and is often shown in TV programmes about the suffragettes. As the horses got near, she jumped onto the track in front of the King's horse and was trampled under its hooves. But women did not get the vote until after the 1914-18 war. 1935: Attractive song-writer Alma Rattenbury stabbed herself to death. A few weeks earlier, in a trial full of lurid details, she had been acquitted of murdering her elderly husband. But her teenage lover George Stoner was sentenced to hang for the crime. Three weeks after she died, Stoner was reprieved.

1940: As the Germans admitted they had lost 10,000 men in their invasion of the Low Countries, the Dunkirk evacuation ended. A third of a million soldiers had been plucked from the beaches by a flotilla of cabin cruisers, paddle steamers and navy ships. Not many people know that the former first officer Lightoller of the Titanic sailed a pleasure steamer to Dunkirk, helped only by a young sea scout.

1937: The first supermarket opened, in Oklahoma City. Its owner adapted his shopping trolleys from childrens' pushchairs.

1983: War minister John Profumo resigned from Parliament after admitting he had misled the house about his affair with Christine Keeler.

1989: Rebellious students were massacred in Tianenmen Square, Peking. They had spent days making impossible demands, such as the right to vote, and the Government lost patience and sent in the army.

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