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June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events
- 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1257 - Kraków, Poland receive city rights.
- 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
- 1798 - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
- 1817 - The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
- 1829 - The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 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.
- 1888 - The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
- 1916 - 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."
- 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.
- 1941 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 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.
- 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.
- 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
- 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 International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 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 United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (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 people 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.
- 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.
- 1995 - The 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.
- 2003 - A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
- 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Births
- 1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
- 1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- 1523 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
- 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1554 - Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592)
- 1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
- 1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
- 1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
- 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
- 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
- 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
- 1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
- 1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
- 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German 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)
- 1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
- 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 García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
- 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1905 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
- 1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
- 1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
- 1920 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
- 1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
- 1923 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
- 1928 - Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1928 - Tony Richardson, British film director (d. 1991)
- 1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
- 1931 - Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
- 1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
- 1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
- 1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
- 1936 - Connie Hines, American actress
- 1938 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler
- 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
- 1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
- 1941 - Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
- 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
- 1941 - Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
- 1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician
- 1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
- 1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
- 1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
- 1945 - John Carlos, American athlete
- 1945 - Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)
- 1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor
- 1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
- 1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
- 1947 - Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
- 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
- 1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
- 1950 - Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990)
- 1950 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977)
- 1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
- 1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1952 - Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
- 1953 - Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
- 1954 - Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
- 1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
- 1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
- 1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist
- 1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
- 1960 - Leslie Hendrix, American actress
- 1960 - Margo Lanagan, Australian author
- 1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
- 1961 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
- 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
- 1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian
- 1963 - Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
- 1964 - Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
- 1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
- 1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
- 1967 - Ray Lankford, American baseball player
- 1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor
- 1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
- 1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
- 1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
- 1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
- 1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
- 1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
- 1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
- 1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
- 1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
- 1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
- 1973 - Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
- 1974 - Chad Allen, American actor
- 1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
- 1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1975 - Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
- 1977 - Christian Martucci, American musician
- 1977 - Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
- 1977 - Navi Rawat, American actress
- 1977 - Liza Weil, American actress
- 1978 - Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
- 1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
- 1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
- 1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1979 - Jason White, American NASCAR driver
- 1980 - Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
- 1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
- 1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality
- 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1983 - Bill Bray, American baseball player
- 1983 - Marques Colston, American football player
- 1984 - Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
- 1985 - Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
- 1987 - Lara Bingle, Australian model
- 1987 - Charlie Clements, English actor
- 1992 - Emily Seebohm, Australian Swimmer
- 1995 - Troye Mellet, Australian Actor And Singer
- 2005 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
Deaths
- 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
- 1017 - Emperor Sanjō 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)
- 1722 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
- 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)
- 1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
- 1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1866 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
- 1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
- 1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- 1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
- 1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- 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)
- 1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
- 1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
- 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)
- 2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
- 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, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California, and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
- 2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
- 2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
- 2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
- 2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances
- World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.
- National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day).
- Suriname - Indian Arrival Day
- Seychelles - Liberation Day.
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
- Saint Boniface (d. 754)
- Saint Valeria
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