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Today June 5th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1257 – Kraków, Poland receive city rights.
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 – The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
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.
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.
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 thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
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 – Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1946 – A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois 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.
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.
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.
1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive 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 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1970 – Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention 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 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, the first practical personal computer, 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.
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 – 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.
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.
Births
1341 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1523 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1554 – Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592)
1640 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1660 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
1718 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
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 August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
1850 – Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
1868 – James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
1876 – Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1879 – Robert Mayer, German-born 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, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 – William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)
1898 – Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1905 – John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
1912 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
1920 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
1923 – Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
1923 – Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)
1925 – Art Donovan, American football star
1928 – Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 – Tony Richardson, British film director (d. 1991)
1930 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
1931 – Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
1931 – Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
1932 – Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist
1936 – Connie Hines, American actress
1938 – Karin Balzer, German hurdler
1939 – Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1939 – Margaret Drabble, English novelist
1941 – Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
1941 – Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
1941 – Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
1941 – Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
1942 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician
1943 – Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 – Tommie Smith, American athlete
1944 – Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1945 – John Carlos, American athlete
1945 – Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)
1946 – John Bach, Welsh actor
1946 – Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1947 – Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
1947 – Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
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 & political activist (d. 1977)
1951 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
1952 – Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
1953 – Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
1954 – Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
1954 – Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1955 – Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1956 – Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1956 – Kenny G, American saxophonist
1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
1959 – Robert Lloyd, English musician (The Nightingales)
1960 – Leslie Hendrix, American actress
1960 – Margo Lanagan, Australian author
1961 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1961 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
1962 – Princess Astrid of Belgium
1962 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian
1963 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
1964 – Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
1965 – Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1967 – Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1967 – Ray Lankford, American baseball player
1967 – Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 – Brian McKnight, American musician
1970 – Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 – Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
1972 – Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1972 – Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 – Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1973 – Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1973 – Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 – Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
1974 – Chad Allen, American actor
1974 – Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 – Žydrunas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1975 – Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
1976 – Torry Holt, American football player
1976 – Ross Noble, English comedian
1977 – Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
1977 – Christian Martucci, American musician
1977 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
1977 – Navi Rawat, American actress
1977 – Liza Weil, American actress
1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
1979 – David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 – Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 – Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1979 – Jason White, American NASCAR driver
1980 – Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
1980 – Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1981 – Jade Goody, British television personality
1981 – Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1983 – Bill Bray, American baseball player
1983 – Marques Colston, American football player
1984 – Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
1985 – Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
1987 – Lara Bingle, Australian model
1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor
1992 – Emily Seebohm, Australian Swimmer
1995 – Troye Mellet, Australian Actor And Singer
2005 – Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
Deaths
535 – Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
1017 – Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)
1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1296 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1316 – King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
1383 – Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (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, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
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, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
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)
1975 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1993 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 – Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer (The Velvet Fog), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 – Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 – Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2004 – Ronald Reagan, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California, and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2004 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances
World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.
National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day).
Suriname – Indian Arrival Day
Seychelles – Liberation Day.
Bahá í Faith – Feast of Núr (Light) – First day of the fifth month of the Bahá í calendar.
Saint Boniface (d. 754)
Saint Valeria
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