UN
Day
World
Environment Day
International
Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported
and Unregulated Fishing
Events
of the day
70 β Titus and his Roman legions
breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege
of Jerusalem.
1257 β KrakΓ³w, Poland receives city rights.
1283 β Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of
Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon,
captures Charles of Salermo.
1798 β The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to
spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is
defeated.
1817 β The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac,
is launched.
1829 β HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship
Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 β The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris
in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
1837 β Houston, Texas is incorporated by the
Republic of Texas.
1849 β Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 β 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.
1862 β As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding
parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla
leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu
Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
1864 β American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont:
Union forces under General David Hunter defeat
a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking
nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1883 β The first regularly scheduled Orient
Express departs Paris.
1888 β The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes
place.
1900 β Second Boer War: British soldiers take
Pretoria.
1915 β Denmark amends its constitution to allow
women's suffrage.
1916 β Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 β World War I: Conscription begins in the
United States as "Army registration day".
1933 β 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 β Four thousand Chongqing residents are
asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing
of Chongqing.
1942 β World War II: United States declares
war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
1944 β 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 β The Allied Control Council, the military
occupation governing body of Germany, formally
takes power.
1946 β A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago,
Illinois kills 61 people.
1947 β Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard
University, United States Secretary of State
George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn
Europe.
1949 β Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the
first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1956 β Elvis Presley introduces his new single,
"Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show,
scandalizing the audience with his suggestive
hip movements.
1959 β The first government of the State of
Singapore is sworn in.
1963 β British Secretary of State for War John
Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the
Profumo Affair.
1963 β 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.
1964 β DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1967 β Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force
launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on
the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1968 β 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 β The International communist conference
begins in Moscow.
1975 β The Suez Canal opens for the first time
since the Six-Day War.
1975 β The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide
referendum, on remaining in the European Economic
Community (EEC).
1976 β Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United
States.
1977 β A coup takes place in Seychelles.
1977 β The Apple II, one of the first personal
computers, goes on sale.
1981 β 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 β Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest
site of the Sikh religion.
1989 β The Unknown Rebel halts the progress
of a column of advancing tanks for over half
an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests
of 1989.
1993 β Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, fall
into the sea following a landslide.
1995 β The Bose-Einstein condensate is first
created.
1998 β 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 β 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 β A severe heat wave across Pakistan and
India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed
50Β°C (122Β°F) in the region.
2006 β Serbia declares independence from the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Holidays
and observances
Arbor
Day (New Zealand)
Christian Feast Day:
Boniface (Roman Catholic Church)
June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day and Father's Day (Denmark)
Feast of NΓΊr, the first day of the fifth month
of the BahΓ‘'Γ calendar. (BahΓ‘'Γ Faith)
Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)
Khordad Movement Anniversary (Iran)
Liberation Day (Seychelles)
President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
World Environment Day (International)
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