On This Day...

5:58am Wednesday 4th June 2008

4th June

1896 - Henry Ford takes his first Ford automobile for a trial run around the streets of Detroit.

1940 - The evacuation of Dunkirk is completed.br>
1977 - Scottish football fans invade the pitch at Wembley, causing £15,000 worth of damage, after the team beats England 2-1.

1989 - More than 100 people are killed when Chinese soldiers open fire on a non-violent protest at Tiananmen Square in Beijing

2001 - An American man sets a new world record - doing 4,181 sit-ups in one hour.

2002 - On the final day of the Golden Jubilee extended bank holiday weekend, the Queen rides through London in the state gold coach.