June 5th Events |
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| June 5th, 2006 (June 05 2006) | Event | Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. | |
| June 5th, 2003 (June 05 2003) | Event | A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50øC (122øF) in the region. | |
| June 5th, 2001 (June 05 2001) | Event | 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. | |
| June 5th, 2001 (June 05 2001) | Event | 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. | |
| June 5th, 1998 (June 05 1998) | Event | 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). | |
| June 5th, 1995 (June 05 1995) | Event | The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. | |
| June 5th, 1989 (June 05 1989) | Event | The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel. | |
| June 5th, 1989 (June 05 1989) | Event | The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. | |
| June 5th, 1986 (June 05 1986) | Event | A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths. | |
| June 5th, 1984 (June 05 1984) | Event | Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. | Indira Gandhi Quotes |
| June 5th, 1981 (June 05 1981) | Event | The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of 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, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. | |
| June 5th, 1977 (June 05 1977) | Event | A coup takes place in Seychelles. | |
| June 5th, 1977 (June 05 1977) | Event | The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale. | |
| June 5th, 1976 (June 05 1976) | Event | Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States. | |
| June 5th, 1975 (June 05 1975) | Event | The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. | |
| June 5th, 1975 (June 05 1975) | Event | The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC). | |
| June 5th, 1970 (June 05 1970) | Event | Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem. | |
| June 5th, 1970 (June 05 1970) | Event | Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| June 5th, 1969 (June 05 1969) | Event | The International communist conference begins in Moscow. | |
| June 5th, 1968 (June 05 1968) | Event | 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. | Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| June 5th, 1967 (June 05 1967) | Event | Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. | |
| June 5th, 1963 (June 05 1963) | Event | British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal. | |
| June 5th, 1963 (June 05 1963) | Event | 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. | Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes |
| June 5th, 1959 (June 05 1959) | Event | The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. | |
| June 5th, 1956 (June 05 1956) | Event | Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. | Milton Berle Quotes |
| June 5th, 1947 (June 05 1947) | Event | Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe. | |
| June 5th, 1946 (June 05 1946) | Event | A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people. | |
| June 5th, 1945 (June 05 1945) | Event | Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. | |
| June 5th, 1944 (June 05 1944) | Event | 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. | |
| June 5th, 1941 (June 05 1941) | Event | Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. | |
| June 5th, 1933 (June 05 1933) | Event | 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. | |
| June 5th, 1917 (June 05 1917) | Event | World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day." | |
| June 5th, 1916 (June 05 1916) | Event | Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. | |
| June 5th, 1915 (June 05 1915) | Event | Denmark amends its constitution to allow women s suffrage. | |
| June 5th, 1900 (June 05 1900) | Event | Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. | |
| June 5th, 1888 (June 05 1888) | Event | The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place. | |
| June 5th, 1864 (June 05 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. | |
| June 5th, 1851 (June 05 1851) | Event | 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. | Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes |
| June 5th, 1849 (June 05 1849) | Event | Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution. | |
| June 5th, 1837 (June 05 1837) | Event | Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. | |
| June 5th, 1832 (June 05 1832) | Event | The Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin. | |
| June 5th, 1829 (June 05 1829) | Event | The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. | |
| June 5th, 1817 (June 05 1817) | Event | The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. | |
| June 5th, 1798 (June 05 1798) | Event | The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. | |
| June 5th, 1305 (June 05 1305) | Event | Pope Clement V is elected. | |
| June 5th, 1257 (June 05 1257) | Event | Krakow, Poland receive city rights. | |
