Rocket experiments at Cuxhaven are banned by the German authorities.
4 June 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate)
3 June 1991
Mount Unzen erupts in Ky?sh?, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
2 June 1962
During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games…
1 June 1941
The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.