By The Associated Press
                       - Today is Friday, June 4, the 155th day of 1999. There are 210 days
                         left in the year.

                       - On June 4, 1939, during what became known as the "Voyage of the
                         Damned," the SS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees
                         from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast. Also denied
                         permission to dock in Cuba, the ship eventually returned to Europe;
                         many of the refugees later died in Nazi concentration camps.
                       - In 1647 the English army seized King Charles I as a hostage.
                       - In 1812 the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
                       - In 1878 Turkey turned Cyprus over to the British.
                       - In 1892 the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
                       - In 1940 the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ended.
                       - In 1942 the Battle of Midway began during World War II.
                       - In 1947 the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the
                         Taft-Hartley Act.
                       - In 1954 French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc
                         initialed treaties in Paris, according "complete independence" to
                         Vietnam.
                       - In 1986 Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst,
                         pleaded guilty in Washington to spying for Israel. He is serving a
                         life sentence in prison.
                       - Ten years ago hundreds and possibly thousands of people died as
                         Chinese army troops stormed Beijing to crush the pro-democracy
                         movement. A gas explosion in the Soviet Union engulfed two passing
                         trains, killing 645. "Jerome Robbins's Broadway" won best musical at
                         the 43rd annual Tony Awards; "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy
                         Wasserstein won best play.
                       - Five years ago President Clinton and British Prime Minister John
                         Major paid tribute to the lost airmen of World War II at the
                         American Cemetery in Cambridge, England.
                       - One year ago a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in
                         prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. Americans aboard
                         the shuttle Discovery arrived at the Russian space station Mir to
                         pick up U.S. astronaut Andrew Thomas, who'd spent four months in
                         orbit.