Wikipedia: June 5

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.

Events

1741 - Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning)
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate publicly their montgolfière (hot air balloon)
1817 - First Great Lakes steamer launched.
1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba
1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage
1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter.
1849 - Signing of the Danish constitution
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont
1895 - Nicholas Flood Davin's motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canadian House of Commons.
1900 - Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa
1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band
1916 - Louis Brandeis becomes Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States
1940 - Canadian Cabinet declares Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal and jails leaders.
1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of an Axis nation to fall
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
1947 - Marshall Plan: United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe
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: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. He dies the next day
1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War
1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles
1977 - The Apple II personal computer goes on sale
1984 - President of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the Sikh holy spot
1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created
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.

Births

1341 - Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (+ 1402)
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, furniture maker (+ 1779)
1723 - Adam Smith, economist (+ 1790)
1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, physiologist (+ 1808)
1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover (+ 1851)
1781 - Christian August Lobeck, classical scholar (+ 1860)
1819 - John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of Neptune
1850 - Pat Garrett, Western lawman (+ 1908)
1876 - Tony Jackson, musician (+ 1921)
1879 - Robert Mayer, philanthropist (+ 1985)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, economist (+ 1946)
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, composer (+ 1957)
1887 - Pancho Villa, revolutionary (+ 1923)
1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, publisher(+ 1976)
1895 - William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), actor (+ 1972)
1898 - Federico García Lorca, lyricist and dramatist (+ 1936)
1912 - Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (+ 1992)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer
1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (+ 1994)
1925 - Boy Gobert, actor (+ 1986)
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1928 - Robert Lansing, actor (+ 1994)
1928 - Tony Richardson, actor (+ 1991)
1931 - Jacques Demy, playwright
1932 - Christy Brown, author (+ 1981)
1934 - Bill Moyers, journalist and muckraker
1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
1941 - Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist
1944 - Tommie Smith, athlete
1947 - Laurie Anderson, performance artist, actress, composer
1949 - Ken Follett, author
1954 - Nicko McBrain, musician (Iron Maiden)
1956 - Luci Francum nee Geissler
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), singer, actor
1979 - David Bisbal, singer

Deaths

535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
1316 - King Louis X of France
1900 - Stephen Crane, author
1910 - O. Henry, author
1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, Field Marshal
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, author
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright
1930 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse"
1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
1942 - Samuel Adams, naval officer
1975 - Paul Keres, chess player
1993 - Conway Twitty, country musician
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, actress
1998 - Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California
1999 - Mel Tormé, singer, composer, actor
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, musician ("The Ramones")
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician

Holidays and observances

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

See Also:

June 4 - June 6 - May 5 - July 5 -- listing of all days

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