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- 1742
- The Ahlen post office opens in Ahlen, Westphalia.
- 1863
- The Sixth Cathedral of Manila lies in ruin after an earthquake the previous day.
- 1936
- The Wichita National Forest in Oklahoma is redesignated as Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and transferred to the Bureau of Biological Survey by an act of Congress.
- 1943
- The Technical Institute and Free Library closes in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
- 1950
- Carroll's Grove Speedway opens near Troy, New York.
- 2018
- The Stone Tap restaurant closes in Hudson, Wisconsin.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on June 4, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on June 4 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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