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June 5

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

May - June - Jul
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6	7	8	9	10	11	12
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

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 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new 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 (d. 1402)
• 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, furniture maker (d. 1779)
• 1723 - Adam Smith, economist (d. 1790)
• 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, physiologist (d. 1808)
• 1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover (d. 1851)
• 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, classical scholar (d. 1860)
• 1819 - John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of Neptune
• 1850 - Pat Garrett, Western lawman (d. 1908)
• 1876 - Tony Jackson, musician (d. 1920)
• 1879 - Robert Mayer, philanthropist (d. 1985)
• 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, economist (d. 1946)
• 1884 - Ralph Benatzky, composer (d. 1957)
• 1887 - Pancho Villa, revolutionary (d. 1923)
• 1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, publisher(d. 1976)
• 1895 - William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), actor (d. 1972)
• 1898 - Federico García Lorca, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
• 1912 - Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (d. 1992)
• 1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer
• 1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (d. 1994)
• 1925 - Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986)
• 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
• 1928 - Robert Lansing, actor (d. 1994)
• 1928 - Tony Richardson, actor (d. 1991)
• 1931 - Jacques Demy, playwright
• 1932 - Christy Brown, author (d. 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

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

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