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.
[edit] Events
- 70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1257 – Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
- 1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.
- 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 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
- 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.
- 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
- 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.
- 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
- 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 thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- 1942 – World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- 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 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
- 1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
- 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 known as the Profumo Affair.
- 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.
- 1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
- 1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt 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.
- 1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- 1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first 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, one of the first personal computers, 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.
- 1993 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
- 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 – 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.
- 2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
[edit] Births
- 1341 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
- 1493 – Justus Jonas, German Lutheran reformer (d. 1555)
- 1523 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
- 1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1640 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
- 1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
- 1660 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
- 1718 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture designer and author (d. 1779)
- 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 Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
- 1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
- 1830 – Carmine Crocco, Italian brigand and soldier (d. 1905)
- 1850 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff, killed Billy the Kid (d. 1908)
- 1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
- 1868 – James Connolly, Irish socialist leader and general (d. 1916)
- 1870 – Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1935)
- 1876 – Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and educator (d. 1957)
- 1876 – Tony Jackson, American singer, pianist, and composer (d. 1920)
- 1877 – Willard Miller, American sailor (d. 1959)
- 1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
- 1879 – Robert Mayer, German 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, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (d. 1976)
- 1895 – William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1895 – William Roberts, English painter (d. 1980)
- 1898 – Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker, founder of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. (d. 1960)
- 1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist, and dramatist (d. 1936)
- 1899 – Otis Barton, American engineer, diver, and author, designed the bathysphere (d. 1992)
- 1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English engineer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, activist, and author (d. 1957)
- 1905 – John Abbott, English actor (d. 1996)
- 1905 – Wayne Boring, American comics artist (d. 1987)
- 1905 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (d. 1935)
- 1908 – Ravi Narayana Reddy, Indian philanthropist and social reformer, co-founder of the Communist Party of India (d. 1991)
- 1912 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Richard Scarry, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
- 1920 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
- 1923 – Jorge Daponte, Argentine race car driver (d. 1963)
- 1923 – Daniel Pinkham, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Art Donovan, American football player
- 1928 – Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Tony Richardson, English director (d. 1991)
- 1930 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
- 1931 – Jacques Demy, French director (d. 1990)
- 1931 – Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher
- 1932 – Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
- 1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist
- 1937 – Hélène Cixous, French philosopher, educator, writer, and poet
- 1938 – Karin Balzer, German hurdler
- 1939 – Joe Clark, Canadian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Canada
- 1939 – Margaret Drabble, English novelist
- 1941 – Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
- 1941 – Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1941 – Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Robert Kraft, American businessman, founded The Kraft Group
- 1942 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea
- 1943 – Matthew Lesko, American author
- 1944 – Colm Wilkinson, Irish-Canadian tenor and actor
- 1945 – John Carlos, American football player
- 1945 – Patrick Head, English businessman co-founder of Williams F1
- 1946 – John Bach, Welsh actor
- 1946 – Freddie Stone, American singer, guitarist, and pastor (Sly & the Family Stone)
- 1947 – Laurie Anderson, American singer, musician, and composer
- 1947 – Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
- 1947 – David Hare, English playwright and director
- 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 and activist (d. 1977)
- 1951 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, author, and television host
- 1951 – Jill Biden, American educator, wife of Joe Biden
- 1952 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (d. 2001)
- 1952 – Daniel Katzen, American horn player and educator
- 1952 – Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden, Pat Travers, Streetwalkers, and Trust)
- 1953 – Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer, co-founded Amblin Entertainment
- 1954 – Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
- 1954 – Nancy Stafford, American actress
- 1955 – Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian footballer
- 1956 – Richard Butler, English singer-songwriter (The Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love)
- 1956 – Kenny G, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (The Love Unlimited Orchestra)
- 1958 – Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician
- 1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comorian politician, President of Comoros
- 1959 – Robert Lloyd, English singer (The Nightingales and The Prefects)
- 1960 – Leslie Hendrix, American actress
- 1960 – Margo Lanagan, Australian author
- 1961 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
- 1961 – Anthony Burger, American singer and pianist (The Kingsmen Quartet) (d. 2006)
- 1961 – Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
- 1962 – Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
- 1962 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian, actor, director, and writer
- 1963 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian singer and bassist (Pokolgép and P. Mobil)
- 1964 – Lisa Cholodenko, American writer and director
- 1964 – Rick Riordan, American author
- 1964 – Karl Sanders, American singer-songwriter and musician (Nile)
- 1965 – Michael E. Brown, American astronomer
- 1965 – Sandrine Piau, French soprano
- 1967 – Matt Bullard, American basketball player
- 1967 – Joe DeLoach, American sprinter
- 1967 – Ray Lankford, American baseball player
- 1967 – Ron Livingston, American actor
- 1969 – Brian McKnight, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
- 1970 – Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Miyuki Komatsu, Japanese actress
- 1971 – Susan Lynch, Irish actress
- 1971 – Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese race car driver
- 1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American model, actor, producer, and rapper (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch)
- 1972 – Mike Bucci, American wrestler
- 1972 – Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
- 1972 – Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
- 1973 – Lamon Brewster, American boxer
- 1973 – Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Pain of Salvation and The Flower Kings)
- 1973 – Galilea Montijo, Mexican actress
- 1973 – Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
- 1974 – P-Nut, American bassist (311)
- 1974 – Chad Allen, American actor
- 1974 – Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
- 1975 – Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1975 – Sandra Stals, Belgian runner
- 1976 – Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player
- 1976 – Torry Holt, American football player
- 1976 – Ross Noble, English comedian
- 1976 – Aesop Rock, American rapper, songwriter, musician, and producer (The Weathermen and Hail Mary Mallon)
- 1976 – Jack Ross, Scottish footballer
- 1977 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
- 1977 – Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
- 1977 – Christian Martucci, American singer-songwriter and musician (Black President, The Strychnine Babies, and The Chelsea Smiles)
- 1977 – Navi Rawat, American actress
- 1977 – Liza Weil, American actress
- 1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer
- 1979 – David Bisbal, Spanish singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Stefanos Kotsolis, Greek footballer
- 1979 – Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
- 1979 – Pete Wentz, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and fashion designer (Fall Out Boy, Black Cards, and Arma Angelus)
- 1979 – Jason White, American race car driver
- 1980 – Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Sutee Suksomkit, Thai footballer
- 1980 – Brandi Shearer, American singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Jade Goody, English nurse, author, and contestant on Big Brother (d. 2009)
- 1981 – Sebastien Lefebvre, French-Canadian singer and musician (Simple Plan)
- 1982 – Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombone player (Suburban Legends) (d. 2005)
- 1982 – Baron Geisler, Filipino actor
- 1983 – Bill Bray, American baseball player
- 1983 – Marques Colston, American football player
- 1984 – Robert Barbieri, Canadian-Italian rugby player
- 1985 – Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player
- 1985 – Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
- 1986 – Christian Baracat, German rugby player
- 1986 – Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Amanda Crew, Canadian actress
- 1986 – Vernon Gholston, American football player
- 1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor
- 1987 – Marcus Thornton, American basketball player
- 1988 – Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Ellary Porterfield, American actress
- 1989 – Megumi Nakajima, Filipino-Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1990 – Sophie Lowe, English-Australian actress
- 1990 – Junior Hoilett, Canadian soccer player
- 1991 – Sören Bertram, German footballer
- 1991 – Sahara Garey, American actress
- 1991 – Jack Stanley, English actor
- 1992 – Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian footballer
- 1992 – Matías Del Pozo, Argentine actor
- 1992 – Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
- 1995 – Beckii Cruel, English singer and dancer
- 1995 – Troye Sivan, Australian actor and singer
- 1996 – Yuya Ozeki, Japanese actor
- 2005 – Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish daughter of Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
[edit] Deaths
- 301 – Sima Lun, Chinese usurper of the Jin Dynasty (b. 249)
- 535 – Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople
- 567 – Patriarch Theodosius I of Alexandria
- 754 – Saint Boniface, English missionary, bishop, and martyr
- 1017 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
- 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
- 1296 – Edmund Crouchback, English son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
- 1316 – Louis X of France (b. 1289)
- 1383 – Dmitry of Suzdal (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 and musician (b. 1660)
- 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor (b. 1659)
- 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (b. 1718)
- 1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
- 1819 – Bodawpaya, Burmese king (b. 1745)
- 1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, Greek soldier (b. 1788)
- 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
- 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- 1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
- 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- 1910 – O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
- 1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
- 1916 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, English field marshal (b. 1850)
- 1920 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
- 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
- 1930 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
- 1947 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
- 1967 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator (b. 1878)
- 1975 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
- 1976 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
- 1996 – Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian writer (b. 1933)
- 1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Sam Yorty, American politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
- 1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (b. 1925)
- 2000 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher (b. 1908)
- 2002 – Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
- 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Ramones) (b. 1951)
- 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
- 2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
- 2004 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
- 2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
- 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer, pianist, composer, and author (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1978)
- 2009 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (b. 1985)
- 2012 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Lucky Diamond, American dog model (b. 1997)
- 2012 – Caroline John, English actress (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Hal Keller, American baseball player and executive (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Mihai Pătraşcu, Romanian computer scientist (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Athinodoros Prousalis, Greek actor (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Charlie Sutton, Australian footballer (b. 1924)
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