June 5
is the 156th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (157th in
leap years), with 209 days remaining.
*
70 -
Titus and his
Roman legions breach the middle wall of
Jerusalem.
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1305 -
Pope Clement V is elected.
*
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.
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1832 -
Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
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1849 -
Denmark becomes a
constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new
constitution.
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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.
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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.
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1900 -
Second Boer War:
British soldiers take
Pretoria.
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1907 -
BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
*
1915 -
Denmark amends its
constitution to allow
women's suffrage.
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1916 -
Stein's Dixie Jazz Band plays its first gig under its new name, the
Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
* 1916 -
Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a
Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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1917 -
World War I:
Conscription begins in the
United States as "Army registration day."
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1924 -
Ernst Alexanderson sends the first
facsimile across the
Atlantic Ocean (to his father in
Sweden).
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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.
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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.
* 1944 -
World War II:
Rome liberated by the Allies
*
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.
*
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.
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1967 -
Six-Day War begins: The
Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive 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 Palestinian
Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
*
1969 - The
University of Texas at San Antonio is established.
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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.
* 1975 - 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.
* 1977 - The
Apple II, the first practical
personal computer, goes on sale.
*
1981 - The
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of 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, in what turns out to be 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 religion.
*
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
Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in
Canada to give the
Inuit of
western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.
* 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).
*
2001 -
U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the
Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the
United States Senate from the Republicans to the
Democratic Party.
* 2001 -
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
*
2002 -
Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.
*
2003 - Severe
heat wave across
Pakistan and
India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region.
(Details)*
2006 -
Serbia declares independence from the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro*
1341 -
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of
Edward III of England (d.
1402)
*
1493 -
Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (d.
1555)
*
1553 -
Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d.
1617)
*
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 and philosopher (d.
1790)
*
1757 -
Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d.
1808)
*
1760 -
Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d.
1852)
*
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)
*
1862 -
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1930)
*
1876 -
Tony Jackson, American musician (d.
1920)
*
1878 -
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d.
1923)
*
1879 -
Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d.
1985)
* 1879 -
René Pottier, French cyclist (d.
1907)
*
1883 -
John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d.
1946)
*
1884 -
Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d.
1957)
*
1894 -
Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d.
1976)
*
1895 -
William Boyd (actor), American actor (d.
1972)
*
1898 -
Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d.
1936)
*
1900 -
Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
*
1905 -
John Abbott, British actor (d.
1996)
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1919 -
Richard Scarry, American children's author (d.
1994)
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1920 -
Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d.
1974)
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1925 -
Art Donovan, American football star
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1928 -
Tony Richardson, British actor (d.
1991)
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1930 -
Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d.
1996)
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1931 -
Jacques Demy, French playwright
*
1932 -
Christy Brown, Irish author (d.
1981)
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1934 -
Bill Moyers, American journalist
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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)
* 1941 -
Robert Kraft, owner of the
New England Patriots*
1944 -
Tommie Smith, American athlete
*
1946 -
Freddie Stone, American guitarist (
Sly & the Family Stone)
*
1947 -
Laurie Anderson, American actress and composer
* 1947 -
Tom Evans, Pop musician (Badfinger) (d.
1983)
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1949 -
Ken Follett, Welsh author
*
1952 -
Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (d.
2001)
*
1954 -
Nicko McBrain, English musician (
Iron Maiden)
*
1955 -
Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
*
1956 -
Richard Butler, English singer (The
Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love), painter and writer
* 1956 -
Kenny G, American saxophonist
*
1962 -
Princess Astrid of Belgium* 1962 -
Jeff Garlin, American comedian
*
1967 -
Joe DeLoach, American athlete
* 1967 -
Ray Lankford, baseball player
*
1968 -
Ron Livingston, American actor
*
1969 -
Brian McKnight, American musician
*
1970 -
Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
*
1971 -
Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
* 1971 -
Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
*
1972 -
Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
*
1973 -
Lamon Brewster, American boxer
*
1974 -
Chad Allen, American actor
*
1975 -
Anna Nova, German erotic actress
* 1975 -
Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, NBA basketball player (
Cleveland Cavaliers)
*
1976 -
Ross Noble, English comedian
*
1977 -
Liza Weil, American actress
*
1979 -
David Bisbal, Spanish singer
* 1979 -
Peter Wentz, American musician (
Fall Out Boy)
*
1981 -
Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (
Simple Plan)
* 1981 -
Jade Goody, British television personality
*
1983 -
Bill Bray, baseball player
*
535 -
Epiphanius of Constantinople,
patriarch of Constantinople*
1017 -
Emperor Sanjo 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)
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1625 -
Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b.
1583)
*
1667 -
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b.
1607)
*
1688 -
Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b.
1667)
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1716 -
Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b.
1682)
*
1738 -
Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (b.
1659)
*
1791 -
Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b.
1718)
*
1816 -
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b.
1741)
*
1826 -
Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b.
1786)
*
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 -
Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b.
1911)
* 1998 -
Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.
1909)
*
1999 -
Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b.
1925)
*
2000 -
Don Liddle, baseball player (b.
1925)
*
2002 -
Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b.
1912)
* 2002 -
Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (
The Ramones) (b.
1952)
*
2003 -
Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b.
1945)
* 2003 -
Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and
conductor (b.
1904)
*
2004 -
Ronald Reagan, 40th
President of the United States (b.
1911)
* 2004 -
Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) (b.
1941)
*
2006 -
Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b.
1909)
*
World Environment Day, since the
United Nations General Assembly resolution in
1972.
*National holiday of
Denmark (
Constitution Day).
*
Seychelles -
Liberation Day.
*
Bahá'à Faith -
Feast of Núr (
Light) - First day of the fifth month of the
Bahá'à Calendar.
*Anniversary of the Signing of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (
Inuvaluit Day).
Liturgical Feasts
*
Saint Adelard*
Saint Boniface (died 754)
*
Saint Dorotheus*
Saint Igor (died 1147)
*
Saint Valeria*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
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