JUNE 4
1896:Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle, built in a shed behind his Detroit home.
1919: Congress approves the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, and sends it to the states to be ratified. Tennessee’s ratification will turn the amendment into law the following year.
1940: The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, concludes. Over 330,000 retreating soldiers are rescued from the advancing German army by a flotilla of British naval and civilian ships.
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