June 5
June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years ), with 209 days remaining.
Events
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon ).
1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac , is launched.
1829 - HMS Pickle 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 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.
1900 - Boer War : British soldiers take Pretoria , South Africa .
1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
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 Justice of the United States Supreme Court .
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 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 .
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 .
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 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog The Milton Berle Show 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 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 copyright treaty .
1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War .
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 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 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
1992 - Patriot Games Harrison Ford .
1995 - 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).
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 US Congress .
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.
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, co-discoverer of Neptune (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 , American actor (d. 1972 )
1898 - Federico García Lorca , Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936 )
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 , Argentine pianist
1941 - Spalding Gray , American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004 )
1944 - Tommie Smith , American athlete
1947 - Laurie Anderson , American performance artist , actress, composer
1949 - Ken Follett , Welsh author
1954 - Nicko McBrain , English musician (Iron Maiden )
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
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 )
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 , the "Prince of Montparnasse" (b. 1885 )
1942 - Samuel Adams , 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, California (b.1909 )
1999 - Mel Tormé , American singer, composer, actor (b. 1925 )
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone , musician (The Ramones ) (b. 1952 )
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann , German politician (b. 1945 )
2004 - Ronald Reagan , President of the United States (b. 1911 )
Holidays and observances
External links
June 4 - June 6 - May 5 - July 5 -- listing of all days
