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June 5

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

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

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 elected
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1798 - Battle of New Ross, attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster 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.
1900 - Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa.
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.
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."
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 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 died 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.
1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC
1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho.
1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
1977 - 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 Sikh holy spot.
1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington 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 4-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).
1998 - 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.
2002 - 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

1341 - Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (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, philanthropist (d. 1985)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, 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)
1905 - John Abbott, British film actor (d. 1996)
1912 - Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (d. 1992)
1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1925 - Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986)
1928 - Robert Lansing, actor (d. 1994)
1928 - Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
1931 - Jacques Demy, French playwright
1932 - Christy Brown, author (d. 1981)
1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
1938 - Karin Balzer, East 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, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004)
1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer
1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), American singer, actor
1972 - Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean), American professional wrestler
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

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Deaths

535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (b. 1245)
1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
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)
1979 - Heinz Erhardt, German comedian (b. 1909)
1993 - Conway Twitty, American country musician (b. 1933)
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, actress
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer, composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian stage and television actress.
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American musician, bassist with The Ramones (b. September 18, 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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