Today in History June 4th

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1615
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general of the Edo shogunate in Japan, led a large number of troops to capture Osaka Castle (pictured), and the lord Toyotomi Hideyori was forced to commit suicide.
1783
The Montgolfier brothers, a French paper manufacturer, invented the hot air balloon and conducted the first public experiment in the eastern city of Anonay.
1920
The Kingdom of Hungary signed the "Treaty of Trianon" with the Allied Powers, which determined the national border, and lost most of the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1940
Nazi German forces successfully captured the French coastal town of Dunkirk, but the prisoners failed to evacuate to the Allied forces in Britain.
in 1989
Martial law troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army cleared Beijing's Tiananmen Square occupied by demonstrators, causing serious casualties.

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