On This Day | 04 June

On this day:

1783: The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate the first hot air balloon

1917: The first Pulitzer Prize is awarded

1989: Poland holds the first free elections after World War II

Born on this day:

1902: Richard Allen, Indian field hockey goaltender (Olympic gold 1928), born in Nagpur

1936: Nutan Bahl, Indian actress, born in Bombay, British India

Gone on this day:

2019: Jiggs Kalra, Indian food writer “Czar of Indian cuisine”, dies at 72