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What happened in history on this day: June 5?
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- 1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.
- 1718 - Birth of Thomas Chippendale England, furniture maker (baptized).
- 1723 - Birth of Adam Smith in Kirkcaldy, Scotland; economist (Wealth of Nations) (dies 1790).
- 1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make first public unmanned hot-air balloon flight.
- 1794 - US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces.
- 1805 - First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois).
- 1806 - First trotter (horse racing) to break 3-minute mile (Yankee).
- 1806 - Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland.
- 1819 - Birth of John Couch Adams; co-discover (Neptune).
- 1823 - Birth of George Thorndike Angell in Massachusetts, USA; lawyer (ASPCA).
- 1825 - Birth of Jabez Lamar Monroe in Curry, Georgia, USA; educator (Republican-Alabama, 1857-61).
- 1832 - Belgium authorizes a franc coin, based on the French model.
- 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin begins a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1864 - General William E "Grumble" Jones is killed at Piedmont.
- 1869 - Third Belmont Stakes, Fenian wins.
- 1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens.
- 1876 - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1878 - Birth of Francisco (Pancho) Villa in Mexico; revolutionary/guerrilla leader (dies 1923).
- 1883 - Birth of John Maynard Keynes in Cambridge, England; economist/math/journalist.
- 1885 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #248 Lameia.
- 1887 - Birth of Ruth Benedict; US anthropologist (Patterns of Culture).
- 1895 - Birth of William Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, USA; actor (Hopalong Cassidy in movies, on radio, and on TV).
- 1898 - Birth of Federico García Lorca in Spain; poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding).
- 1900 - Birth of Dennis Gabor; inventor (holography (3D laser photography)).
- 1905 - Birth of Arthur Donovan AKA Art Donovan in Bronx, New York, USA; NFL defensive tackle (Baltimore Colts, New York Yanks, Dallas Texans), author (Fatso).
- 1905 - Birth of John Abbott in London, England; actor (Smogasboard).
- 1910 - J Helffrich discovers asteroids #699 Hela and #700 Auravictrix.
- 1912 - Birth of Josef Neckermann in Germany; equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968).
- 1912 - US marines invade Cuba (third time).
- 1914 - Birth of Stan Jones in Douglas, Arizona, USA; actor (Sheriff of Cochise).
- 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), dies at age 65.
- 1917 - Ten million American men begin registering for draft for war duty.
- 1919 - Birth of Akeo Watanabe in Tokyo, Japan; conductor (Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1956-68).
- 1920 - Birth of Marion Motley; AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).
- 1923 - Birth of Daniel Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; composer ("Signs of Zodiac").
- 1925 - Birth of Bill Hayes in Harvey, Illinois, USA; actor/singer (Your Show of Shows, Days of Our Lives).
- 1925 - Birth of Dorothy Claire in LaPorte, Indiana, USA; singer (Winchell and Mahoney).
- 1926 - Birth of Bill Hayes in Illinois, USA; actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of Our Lives).
- 1926 - Cleveland Indians triple-play New York Yankees and win 15-3.
- 1928 - Birth of Robert Lansing in San Diego, California, USA; actor (General George Custer - Branded, General Frank Savage - Twelve O'Clock High, Peter Murphy/Mark Wainwright - The Man Who Never Was, Control - The Equalizer, Paul Blaisdell - Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Automan).
- 1928 - Birth of Tony Richardson in England; director (Delicate Balance, The Hotel New Hampshire).
- 1931 - Birth of Jacques Demy in France; director (Lola, Magic Donkey).
- 1931 - German Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
- 1932 - Birth of Christy Brown in Dublin, Ireland; novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days).
- 1934 - Birth of Bill D Moyers in Hugo, Oklahoma, USA; news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal).
- 1937 - A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1455 Mitchella.
- 1937 - Birth of Waylon Jennings in Littlefield, Texas, USA; country singer/songwriter (recorded 60 albums, had 16 No. 1 country singles, inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001, narrated and sang the theme song for the TV series Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1938 - Birth of Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 grams).
- 1938 - Birth of Howard Platt; actor (Bob Newhart Show, Sanford and Son, Empire).
- 1939 - Birth of Charles Joseph Clark; 16th Canadian Prime Minister (Progressive Conservative) (1979-80).
- 1939 - Birth of Ken Follett; spy author (Eye of the the Needle).
- 1939 - Birth of Margaret Drabble; author (The Needle's Eye).
- 1940 - First synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio, USA.
- 1941 - Birth of Floyd Butler; singer (Friends of Distinction).
- 1941 - Birth of Martha Argerich in Buenos Aires, Argentina; pianist (debut 1949).
- 1942 - (0900 hours) Japanese carrier Hiryu is scuttled, near Midway Island.
- 1942 - Elwood Ordnance Plant explosion near Joliet, Illinois, USA kills 54.
- 1944 - First B-29 bombing raid; one plane lost due to engine failure.
- 1944 - Birth of Tommie Smith; American sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968), gave black power salute.
- 1944 - (evening) 1047 British bombers drop over 5,000 tons of bombs on French coastal batteries. This is the heaviest bombing of any night to date. Nine of ten main batteries are knocked out by a combination of American and British air and naval bombardment.
- 1945 - Birth of Don Reid in Virginia, USA; country singer (Statler Bros - "Flowers on the Wall").
- 1945 - Birth of John Carlos; track star (Olympic bronze 1968), gave black power salute.
- 1945 - The European Advisory Committee announces the unconditional political capitulation of Germany. Control of the country is divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
- 1946 - Birth of Stefania Sandrelli in Viareggio, Italy; actress (The Key).
- 1946 - At the Epsom Downs racecourse near London, England, the annual Derby horse race is held. An American millionaire bets US$6000 on a long shot horse at 50 to 1 odds, winning US$300,000.
- 1946 - Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois, USA).
- 1946 - Birth of Fred Stone; guitarist (Sly and the Family Stone).
- 1947 - American Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Marshall announces the European Recovery Program, known as the Marshall Plan.
- 1950 - Birth of Adrian Cosma in Romania; team handball (Olympic-silver-1976).
- 1950 - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation.
- 1952 - Birth of Nicko McBrain; drummer (Iron Maiden - "Number of the Beast").
- 1952 - Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1953 - Denmark adopts a new constitution.
- 1954 - Birth of Nancy Stafford; actress (Matlock, The Doctors).
- 1954 - NBC airs the last Your Show of Shows TV show.
- 1956 - Birth of Kenny G; saxophonist (Duotones).
- 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- 1956 - Birth of Richard Butler; singer (Psychedelic Furs).
- 1956 - Birth of Nicolette Goulet in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actress (Guiding Light).
- 1956 - US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery (Alabama) buses anti-Constitutional.
- 1957 - New York narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes.
- 1959 - Birth of Michael Winans; gospel singer (The Winans).
- 1962 - Birth of Jeff Garlin; actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm).
- 1964 - Birth of Mags; rocker (Fuzzbox - "Into Rescue").
- 1967 - Death of John Sullivan at age 49 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; comedian (Lonzo of the Lonzo and Oscar country comedy team - "I'm My Own Grandpa", Grand Ole Opry).
- 1967 - Birth of Ron Livingston; actor (The Practice, Band of Brothers).
- 1967 - For three hours, waves of Israeli fight-bombers attack Egyptian airfields, destroying almost all of 340 planes, killing 100 combat pilots.
- 1968 - US Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot by one or more assassins in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Five others are wounded. One shooter is identified as Sirhan Sirhan. Security guard Thane Eugene Cesar may have shot Kennedy from the rear.
- 1968 - USS Scorpion nuclear-power submarine, last heard from 50 miles south of Azores, is declared presumed lost with 99 crew.
- 1969 - Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 1970 - Birth of Claus Norreen; musician (Aqua).
- 1970 - Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at age 69.
- 1971 - Birth of Mark Wahlberg AKA Marky Mark in Massachusetts, USA; actor-singer-producer (Entourage).
- 1971 - Longevity guru Jerome Rodale dies during the taping of the Dick Cavett Show at age 72.
- 1972 - United Nations Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1973 - Death of Hal Gibney at age 61; announcer (Dragnet radio and TV shows).
- 1974 - Birth of Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California; actor (David - Our House, My two Dads, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman).
- 1974 - Birth of P-nut; bassist (311).
- 1975 - Suez Canal reopens (after Six Day War caused it to close).
- 1976 - Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die).
- 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
- 1977 - Coup in Seychelles.
- 1977 - Portland Trail Blazers beat Philadelphia 76ers for NBA championship, 4 games to 2.
- 1977 - Birth of Navi Rawat; actress (Numb3rs).
- 1977 - Birth of Liza Weil; actress (Gilmore Girls).
- 1978 - Taito introduces the Space Invaders arcade video game, in Japan. The original name was Space Monsters, created by Toshihiro Nishikado. Over 350,000 machines are sold world-wide over its lifetime.
- 1979 - Birth of Pete Wentz; bassist (Fall Out Boy).
- 1980 - Birth of Yasser Latif Hamdani; Pakistani constitutional lawyer and historian,.
- 1980 - Soyuz T-2 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
- 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 (the first recognized cases of AIDS).
- 1981 - Houston Astros' pitcher Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as the all-time walk leader [1,777] issuing two walks in a 3-0 win over the New York Mets.
- 1981 - Birth of Seb Lefebvre; guitarist (Simple Plan).
- 1982 - The first Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in Budapest, Hungary.
- 1982 - Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14.5 lengths.
- 1983 - Yannich Noah becomes first Frenchman to win French Open since WW II.
- 1984 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar.
- 1988 - Clarence M Pendleton, US chairman of committee on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies.
- 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests.
- 1989 - In Ontario, Canada, the Toronto Skydome stadium opens for its first game; Milwaukee Brewers beat Toronto Blue Jays 5-3.
- 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched.
- 1992 - Death of Laurence Naismith at age 83 in Australia; actor (The Persuaders, Profiles in Courage, The Defenders).
- 1993 - 24 Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- 1993 - In Minnesota, a magnitude 4.1 earthquake occurs.
- 1993 - Death of Conway Twitty at age 59 of a ruptured stomach vessel in Branson, Missouri, USA; country singer (39 No. 1 Billboard country hits).
- 1994 - In Taiwan, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1994 - Greek cargo ship Sea Transporter runs aground in a cyclone off Aguada, India, spilling 815,500 litres of oil.
- 1995 - The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created, an extremely low-temperature fluid which contains properties and exhibits behaviors that are currently not completely understood.
- 1995 - A bunker fuel barge collides with the freighter Sun Pulse off Singapore, leaking about 116,000 litres of fuel oil.
- 1995 - The NBC TV network ceases airing the Disney series Blossom.
- 1996 - Death of Vito Scotti of lung cancer at age 78; character actor (Luigi - Life With Luigi, The Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park, Disneyland, Peter Gunn, Mad About You).
- 1997 - Kim Hyun Chul, son of Kim Young Sam, president of South Korea, is charged with bribery and corruption related to the awarding of government contracts.
- 1997 - German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, receives the George C. Marshall Foundation award on the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.
- 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors Corporation parts factory in Flint, Michigan.
- 1998 - Death of Jeanette Nolan following a stroke at age 86; radio voice actress (The March of Time, Cavalcade of America, The Court of Missing Heirs, The Adventures of Mister Meek, Life Begins, Manhattan at Midnight), TV actress (over 300 shows, Perry Mason (1957), I Spy (1965), MacGyver (1985), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), The Richard Boone Show (1963), The Virginian (1962)).
- 1999 - The Islamic Salvation Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.
- 1999 - Death of Mel Torme at age 73; singer and songwriter ("The Christmas Song").
- 2001 - With a home run in his 57th game, Barry Bonds becomes the fastest player ever to hit 30 home runs.
- 2001 - (to June 9) Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain. Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the Texas Medical Center, which loses years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds US$5 billion.
- 2001 - U.S. 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 - Hitting his 587th home run, Barry Bonds passes Frank Robinson becoming fourth on the all-time career home run list.
- 2002 - Death of Dee Dee Ramone at age 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA; bass player (The Ramones).
- 2003 - A female suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.
- 2004 - Death of Ronald Reagan of Alzheimer's at age 93; actor, TV host (Death Valley Days, GE Theatre), 40th US President).
- 2005 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.
- 2005 - Birth of Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- 2006 - Cincinnati Reds' player Ken Griffey Junior hits a home run in his 43rd ballpark to tie the major league record also held by Fred McGriff.
- 2007 - A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, is confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of the Holocaust.
- 2007 - Eleven people are killed and 23 others injured in a train crash near Kerang in Victoria, Australia.
- 2007 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
- 2008 - Verizon Wireless announces it will buy mobile phone service provider Alltel for US$28.1 billion.
- 2008 - In New York City, Siegel Auction Galleries conducts an auction of South American postage stamps. Some highlights:
- Brazil two 1843 30-reis stamps and one 60-reis stamp, unique strip of three, cancelled: US$2,185,000, a record for a Brazilian philatelic item;
- Buenos Aires 1859 1-peso Barquitos stamps, tete-beche pair, probably unique: US$661,250;
- Chile 1854 5-centavo Christopher stamps, horizontal block of 14 on cover: US$632,500.
- 2009 - A fast-moving fire kills 41 children in the ABC Daycare centre in Hermosillo, northern Mexico.
- 2010 - Francesca Schiavone defeats Samantha Stosur 6-4, 7-6 (2) to win the womens singles French Open at Roland Garros stadium. Schiavone is the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament.
- 2010 - Drosselmeyer, a three-year-old chestnut colt owned by WinStar Farm, wins the $1 million US Belmont Stakes in 2:31.57, with jockey Mike Smith.
- 2011 - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi.
- 2013 - The Guardian newspaper begins reporting on the US NSA document leak provided by Edward Snowden.
- 2014 - A Sunni militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
- 2016 - Runoff presidential election in Peru, won by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
- 2017 - Montenegro joins NATO as the 29th member.
- 2017 - Death of Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (born 1986).
- 2019 - (to June 8) Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to Russia, where he also attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
- 2021 - The G7 agrees on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% intended to prevent tax avoidance by some of the world's biggest multinationals.
- 2022 - Tennis player Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the French Open men's singles, defeating Casper Ruud of Norway. This is Nadal's 14th French Open win, and 22nd Grand Slam title.
- 2022 - Death of Alec John Such at age 70; bass guitar player (Bon Jovi).
- 2023 - Death of Anna Shay at age 62 of a stroke; actor (Bling Empire TV show).
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