On This Day:
Wednesday June 4, 2014 This is the 155th day of the year, with 210 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Popsicle Frank Epperson is credited with inventing the Popsicle. The idea came to him in 1905 when he was only 11 years old. He left a stir stick in a fruit-flavored mixture of soda powder and water overnight and it froze. Though the frozen pop was born that day, it took many years before Epperson began manufacturing Popsicles. He received a patent for the frozen treat in 1924 and called it the "Ep-sicle," a combination of "Epperson" and "icicle," changing the name to "Popsicle" after his children began asking for "Pop's sicles." The sticks used in Popsicles were originally made from birch wood. The twin Popsicle debuted during the Great Depression. Epperson sold the rights to the name "Popsicle" in 1925, and they are currently held by Good Humor.
Holidays Feast day of St. Edfrith, St. Ninnoc, St. Petroc, St. Metrophanes, St. Francis Caracciolo, St. Optatus of Milevis, St. Quirinus of Siscia, and St. Vincentia Gerosa.
Finland: Flag Day.
Ghana: Revolution Day.
Tonga: Emancipation Day / Independence Day.
Old Maids' Day.
Events 1717 - The Freemasons were founded in London.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Britain.
1812 - The Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
1892 - The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
1896 - Henry Ford made a successful test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, in Detroit.
1917 - The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.
1919 - The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
1940 - The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast ended as German forces captured the port.
1942 - The Battle of Midway began in World War II.
1944 - The U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome during World War II.
1989 - The Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred: a bloody suppression of protesting students which effectively smashed the pro- democracy movement and drove dissent underground.
2003 - Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud, and lying to investigators.
Births 1738 - George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760-1820).
1911 - Sir Christopher Cockerell, British, inventor of the hovercraft.
1928 - Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Ruth Siegel), German-born sex therapist and author.
1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author.
1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria.
Deaths 1798 - Giovanni Casanova, Italian adventurer.
1989 - Dik Browne (born Richard Arthur Allan Browne), American cartoonist.
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, two-term President of Peru.
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