
June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ==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 (1798), attempt to spread Irish Rebellion of 1798 into Munster defeated. *1817 - First Great Lakes (North America) steamer, the ''Frontenac (ship)'', is launched. *1829 - HMS Pickle (1800) 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 - United States forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate States of America army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. *1900 - Boer War: United Kingdom 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 Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. *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 Congress of the United States 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 United Kingdom bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on Germany 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 Singapore is sworn in. *1963 - United Kingdom 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 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 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 UK-wide United Kingdom referendum, 1975, on remaining in the European Economic Community *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 - tank man 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 action 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 Congress of the United States. *2001 - United States Senate Jim Jeffords leaves the United States Republican Party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the United States Democratic Party. *2002 - Elizabeth Smart (born 1987) 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. ==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 (actor), American actor (d. 1972) *1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936) *1905 - John Abbott (actor), 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, Argentina pianist * 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004) *1944 - Tommie Smith, American athletics *1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer *1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author *1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden (band)) *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 (band)) == 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 (naval officer), 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) ==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 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 4 - June 6 - May 5 - July 5 -- historical anniversaries ga:5 Meitheamh ka:5 ივნისი li:5 juni ml:ജൂണ് 5 simple:June 5 th:5 มิถุนายน
--User:Maveric149 23:46, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 5 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 5 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_5_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- == Fall of Rome == Did the Allies enter Rome on June 5th or June 4th? ==Moved / removed == Reomved: *1741 - Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska. It did happen in 1741 but the June 5th date is only supported by bad sources as far as I could tell. Other possible dates: June 15th (log entry by the captain for that day [http://www.kathimitchell.com/nslog.html as told by a 5th grade student]), June 8th (only ref seems to be Encarta and works that used Encarta as a reference [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569148_6/Alaska.html\). --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 15: *1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning) Nope - happened on June 15. --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage. Not significant to world history. --User:Maveric149 Removed: *1895 - Women's rights: Nicholas Flood Davin motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canada House of Commons. *1940 - Canada Cabinet declares Nazism, Fascism and Communism organizations illegal and jails leaders. Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type websites and Wikipedia mirrors. --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 4: *1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allied powers. It is the first capital of an Axis powers nation to fall Nope - it fell on the 4th (unless there is a time zone issue). [http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/060544.html] --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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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== *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 (1798), attempt to spread Irish Rebellion of 1798 into Munster defeated. *1817 - First Great Lakes (North America) steamer, the ''Frontenac (ship)'', is launched. *1829 - HMS Pickle (1800) 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 - United States forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate States of America army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. *1900 - Boer War: United Kingdom 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 Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. *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 Congress of the United States 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 United Kingdom bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on Germany 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 Singapore is sworn in. *1963 - United Kingdom 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 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 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 UK-wide United Kingdom referendum, 1975, on remaining in the European Economic Community *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 - tank man 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 action 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 Congress of the United States. *2001 - United States Senate Jim Jeffords leaves the United States Republican Party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the United States Democratic Party. *2002 - Elizabeth Smart (born 1987) 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. ==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 (actor), American actor (d. 1972) *1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936) *1905 - John Abbott (actor), 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, Argentina pianist * 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004) *1944 - Tommie Smith, American athletics *1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer *1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author *1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden (band)) *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 (band)) == 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 (naval officer), 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) ==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 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 4 - June 6 - May 5 - July 5 -- historical anniversaries ga:5 Meitheamh ka:5 ივნისი li:5 juni ml:ജൂണ് 5 simple:June 5 th:5 มิถุนายน
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--User:Maveric149 23:46, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:June 5 selected anniversaries - Template talk:June 5 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:June_5_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- == Fall of Rome == Did the Allies enter Rome on June 5th or June 4th? ==Moved / removed == Reomved: *1741 - Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska. It did happen in 1741 but the June 5th date is only supported by bad sources as far as I could tell. Other possible dates: June 15th (log entry by the captain for that day [http://www.kathimitchell.com/nslog.html as told by a 5th grade student]), June 8th (only ref seems to be Encarta and works that used Encarta as a reference [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569148_6/Alaska.html\). --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 15: *1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning) Nope - happened on June 15. --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Removed: *1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage. Not significant to world history. --User:Maveric149 Removed: *1895 - Women's rights: Nicholas Flood Davin motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canada House of Commons. *1940 - Canada Cabinet declares Nazism, Fascism and Communism organizations illegal and jails leaders. Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type websites and Wikipedia mirrors. --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Moved to June 4: *1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allied powers. It is the first capital of an Axis powers nation to fall Nope - it fell on the 4th (unless there is a time zone issue). [http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/060544.html] --User:Maveric149 21:31, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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