Reuters historical calendar - June 4

London, June 3 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 4 since 1900: 1913 - British suffragette Emily Davison ran in front of the King's horse during the Derby race; she died of her injuries on June 8.

1937 - The first supermarket trolleys were introduced in Oklahoma City.

1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, ninth king of Prussia and third German emperor (1888-1918), died in exile in the Netherlands.

1943 - Argentine President Ramon Castillo was overthrown in an army coup.

1944 - Allied troops liberated Rome from the Nazis.

1946 - General Juan Peron became president of Argentina.

1961 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev proposed a peace conference to US President John Kennedy to establish Berlin as a free city.

1968 - Sir Walter Nash, veteran New Zealand politician and prime minister (1957-60), died.

1979 - John Vorster resigned as South African president after an official report implicated him in a scandal involving misappropriation of government funds when prime minister.

1988 - Ninety-one people were killed when a train packed with explosives blew up at Arzamas, east of Moscow.

1989 - Hundreds of Chinese student dissidents were killed in Beijing when the army moved in to remove them from Tiananmen Square; some estimates put the death toll in the thousands.

1989 - Solidarity overwhelmingly defeated Poland's ruling Communists in the first partly free elections in four decades.

1990 - President Roh Tae-woo met Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, the first time South Korean and Soviet leaders had met.

1993 - The UN Security Council agreed to send troops to Bosnia to protect six ''safe havens'' - Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zepa, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Bihac.

1994 - Bangladesh ordered the arrest of feminist writer Taslima Nasreen after she told an Indian newpaper the Koran should be ''thoroughly revised''.

2001 - New King Dipendra of Nepal died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, just days after slaying his father, mother and six other relatives. Rioting broke out in Kathmandu hours after his successor, Gyanendra, was crowned.

2002 - Japan ratified the Kyoto protocol on global warming that it signed at a United Nations climate conference in 1997.

2003 - Truong Van Cam, (''Nam Cam''), notorious gang leader, was found guilty of murder and bribery in one of Vietnam's biggest trials. He was sentenced to death.

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