Calendar Page: What Happened on June 4?

The 'Kalenderblatt' for June 4, 2026, offers a daily historical retrospective, highlighting significant events, notable birthdays, and death anniversaries connected to this date.

Historical data for June 4 includes the massive 2025 evacuation of Cologne, Germany, where over 20,000 residents were displaced to defuse three World War II bombs found along the Rhine riverbank. This event marked the largest evacuation in the city since 1945. In 2021, Munich's Archbishop Reinhard Cardinal Marx offered his resignation to Pope Francis in response to the sexual abuse crisis within the church, an offer the Pope declined.

Other historical entries note the premiere of the long-running sports program "Sportschau" and the political magazine "Panorama" on ARD in 1961. In 1936, Léon Blum became France's first socialist Prime Minister following the victory of left-wing parties. Earlier, in 1831, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was elected the first King of the Belgians, a year after Belgium declared independence from the Netherlands.