Today in HistoryToday is Monday, June 4, the 155th day of 2007. There are 210 days left in the year.

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In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.

In 1913, Emily Davison, campaigner for British women’s right to vote, ran in front of the king’s horse during the Derby race; she died of her injuries on June 8.

In 1989, hundreds, possibly thousands, of Chinese students and pro-democracy dissidents were killed in Beijing when the army moved in to remove them from Tiananmen Square. Solidarity overwhelmingly defeated Poland’s ruling Communists in the first partly free elections in four decades.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning author (1904-1991).