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News

Dani Carvajal

• The CNSA Chang'e 6 completes sampling and takeoff from the far side of the Moon.
• In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Real Madrid defeating Borussia Dortmund in the men's final (player of the match Dani Carvajal pictured) and Barcelona defeating Lyon in the women's final.
• Former U.S. president Donald Trump is found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
• In Indy car racing, Josef Newgarden wins the Indianapolis 500.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Carl Cain
• Rob Burrow
• Drew Gordon
• Lionel Dyck
• Marian Robinson
• Robert Pickton

On this day

June 4: Trianon Treaty Day in Romania (1920)

German submarine U-505

• 1784 – Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, covering a distance of 4 km (2.5 mi) and reaching an estimated altitude of 1,500 m (4,900 ft).
• 1944 – World War II: A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505 (pictured).
• 1974 – Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians hosted Ten Cent Beer Night, but had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to rioting by drunken fans.

• 1989 – Following the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Assembly of Experts elected Ali Khamenei to be Supreme Leader of Iran.

• Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
• Benjamin Huntsman (b. 1704)
• Miguel de Azcuénaga (b. 1754)
• Chester Nez (d. 2014)

More anniversaries:

• June 3
• June 4
• June 5

Picture of the day

HMS Malabar was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1818 at Bombay Dockyard. In 1838, Malabar ran aground off Prince Edward Island in British North America and was damaged, with the loss of two crew members. She was refloated later that year and towed into Three Rivers in Lower Canada. In August 1843, Malabar, under the command of Sir George Sartorius, assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the United States Navy sidewheel frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar, taking aboard about 200 of that ship's survivors. Malabar was converted to a hulk in 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and was renamed Myrtle in 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in 1905. This lithograph from around 1843 shows the crew of Malabar watching as Missouri explodes and burns in the distance.Lithograph credit: Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton, after Edward Duncan and George Pechell Mends; restored by Adam Cuerden