April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
Day of death June 4, 1958
The temperature on June 4, 1958 was between 8.7 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
June 1 » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
October 4 » The current constitution of France is adopted.
October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
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