June 5

Categories: Days

June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 1341 to 1899
- 2.2 1900 to 1999
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1837 - Houston, Texas, is granted a city charter.
1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1866 - Calculations indicate Pluto reached its most recent aphelion (furthest point from Sun) on this day. The next aphelion will occur in August 2113.
1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
- Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
1924 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).
1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1954 - The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.
1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. (He dies on June 6).
1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC
1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
- The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh relgion.
1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
1987 - Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special four-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.
1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1991 - Colo-Colo becomes the first Chilean soccer team to win the Copa Libertadores de América.
1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
- Both Reuters and ABC news erroneously report the death of comedian Bob Hope after Arizona congressman Bob Stump announces the demise of Hope on the floor of the US Congress.
2001 - Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party.
2002 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.
- Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.
2004 - Smarty Jones loses at the Belmont Stakes to Birdstone and fails to bid the Triple Crown.

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Births

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1341 to 1899

1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 - Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1656 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (d. 1708)
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist, father of modern economics (d. 1790)
1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover (d. 1851)
1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar (d. 1860)
1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
1887 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 - William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)

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1900 to 1999

1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1905 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
1931 - Jacques Demy, French playwright
1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
1938 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler
1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American actress and composer
1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1968 - Ron Livingston, American actor
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
1972 - Justin Smith, American drummer (The Seeds)
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 - Peter Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician
1989 - Judah Leat, English musician

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Deaths

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535 to 1899

535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
1017 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)

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1900 to 1999

1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
1942 - Samuel Adams, American naval officer (b. 1912)
1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer, composer, and actor (b. 1925)

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2000 onwards

2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, President of the United States (b. 1911)

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Holidays and observances

National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day)
Seychelles - Liberation Day
Feast of Saint Boniface
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar

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