GMT 06/04/2017 Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.

1647 Parliamentary forces capture King Charles I and hold him prisoner.

1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.

1864 Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreat to the mountains in Georgia.

1911 Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.

1918 French and American troops halt Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.

1919 The U.S. Senate passes the Women's Suffrage bill.

1940 The British complete the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk.

1944 The U-505 becomes the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.

1944 Allied troops liberate Rome.

1953 North Korea accepts the United Nations proposals in all major respects.

1960 The Taiwan island of Quemoy is hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.

Born on June 4

1966 Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician.