Notable Historical Events on June 5th
June 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
70 |
Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem |
754 |
Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions |
1257 |
Kraków, Poland, receives city rights. |
1288 |
Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I |
1305 |
Archbishop Bertrand the Got of Bordeaux elected Pope Clement V |
1507 |
England & Netherlands sign trade agreement |
1625 |
Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda |
1632 |
Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond |
1661 |
Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge |
1716 |
England & Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty |
1752 |
Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter |
1783 |
Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight |
1794 |
US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces |
1798 |
The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. |
1799 |
Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition |
1805 |
1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois) |
1806 |
1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee) |
1806 |
Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland |
1808 |
-6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians |
1827 |
Turks capture the Acropolis & take Athens during Greek War of Independence |
1829 |
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. |
1833 |
Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage |
1846 |
Telegraph line opens between Phila & Balt |
1848 |
Statue of prince William the Silent, Prince of Orange, unveiled |
1849 |
Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy |
1855 |
Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention |
1857 |
Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta) |
1861 |
Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE |
1863 |
Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run) |
1863 |
CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic |
1864 |
Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City) |
1869 |
3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25 |
1870 |
Constantinople fire; 900 die |
1872 |
Republican National Convention meets (Phila) |
1873 |
Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar |
1875 |
Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco |
1876 |
Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia |
1879 |
13th Belmont: George Evans riding Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75 |
1882 |
Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die |
1884 |
William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected" |
1886 |
20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41 |
1888 |
US Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president |
1888 |
The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place. |
1899 |
Alfred Dreyfus acquitted |
1900 |
Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller |
1902 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more 'Germanization' of the slavs |
1906 |
Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet |
1907 |
Automatic washer & dryer are introduced |
1911 |
Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win |
1912 |
US marines invade Cuba (3nd time) |
1913 |
Dutch Disability laws go into effect |
1915 |
47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6 |
1915 |
Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. |
1916 |
The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire |
1917 |
10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I |
1920 |
1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell |
1920 |
A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier |
1925 |
29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass |
1926 |
Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3 |
1927 |
3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (6-4 4-6 5-7 6-3 11-9) |
1927 |
Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record |
1929 |
Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain |
1931 |
Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium |
1931 |
66th British Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 296 at Carnoustie Golf Links |
1933 |
Gold standard abolished |
1934 |
1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC) |
1937 |
69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6 |
1937 |
Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week |
1940 |
A synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. |
1940 |
American Negro Theater organizes |
1940 |
Battle of France begins in WW II |
1940 |
Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme |
1940 |
General Charles de Gaulle becomes French junior minister of Defense |
1940 |
Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees |
1940 |
Netherlands rations petroleum |
1941 |
Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ |
1942 |
British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie |
1942 |
Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54 |
1942 |
USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania |
1943 |
75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2 |
1943 |
German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor |
1943 |
President Laurel was shot around 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at the Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong |
1944 |
1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure |
1944 |
1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day invasion |
1944 |
Allies march into Rome |
1944 |
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies |
1944 |
General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 |
1945 |
Benjamin Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" premieres in London |
1945 |
USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany |
1946 |
Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Ill) |
1947 |
Sec of State George Marshall outlines "Marshall Plan" |
1948 |
Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23 |
1950 |
US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation |
1952 |
1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing |
1952 |
Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley |
1952 |
Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavy weight boxing title |
1953 |
Denmark adopts a new constitution |
1953 |
US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN |
1954 |
"Your Show Of Shows" last airs on NBC-TV |
1954 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos |
1955 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
1955 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce |
1956 |
"Milton Berle Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1956 |
Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const |
1957 |
NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes |
1959 |
Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota |
1959 |
The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. |
1960 |
"George Gobel Show" last airs on CBS-TV |
1960 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
1963 |
Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina |
1963 |
State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested |
1964 |
Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie |
1965 |
"Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2 |
1965 |
97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6 |
1965 |
Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras |
1966 |
Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader |
1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational |
1967 |
6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin |
1967 |
Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair |
1967 |
WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible |
1968 |
12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day |
1969 |
Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns |
1969 |
Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut |
1969 |
The International communist conference begins in Moscow. |
1970 |
KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1970 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon |
1971 |
103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6 |
1972 |
"If You Had Wings" opens |
1972 |
UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm |
1972 |
Yugoslav president Josip Tito visits USSR |
1973 |
43rd French Men's Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) |
1974 |
As' Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit |
1975 |
48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor |
1975 |
British referendum agrees to European Common Market membership |
1975 |
Egypt president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967) |
1976 |
"Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57 |
1976 |
108th Belmont: Angel Cordero Jr riding Bold Forbes wins in 2:29 |
1976 |
Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die) |
1976 |
After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland |
1977 |
31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Phila 76er, 4 games to 2 |
1977 |
31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win |
1977 |
Coup in Seychelles (National Day) |
1977 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament |
1977 |
LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24 |
1979 |
Seychelles adopts constitution |
1980 |
Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
1981 |
Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777) |
1981 |
Aids Epidemic officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men |
1981 |
George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England" |
1981 |
TODAY/PC runs for 1st time |
1982 |
"Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39 |
1982 |
114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28 |
1982 |
52nd French Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger (76 61) |
1982 |
Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle |
1983 |
37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy & Cats win |
1983 |
53rd French Men's Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) |
1983 |
Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
1984 |
Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1 |
1984 |
Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple) |
1984 |
Frederick Russell, English Marine Biologist (plankton life history and long-term changes in marine ecosystems), dies at 86 |
1986 |
SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time |
1987 |
"Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM |
1987 |
Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & allows wins game |
1988 |
1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000 |
1988 |
58th French Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) |
1988 |
Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone |
1988 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1988 |
Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY |
1988 |
Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary |
1989 |
23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis |
1989 |
Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires |
1989 |
Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt" |
1989 |
Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3 |
1990 |
South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home |
1991 |
Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington DC |
1991 |
Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize |
1991 |
Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched |
1993 |
"Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18 |
1993 |
125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8 |
1993 |
63rd French Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (4-6 6-2 6-4) |
1993 |
Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives |
1993 |
Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani |
1994 |
"Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1994 |
64th French Men's Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61) |
1994 |
64th French Women's Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (6-4 6-4) |
1994 |
7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
1994 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
1995 |
29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire |
1995 |
The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, TN, on WMFS 92.9 FM |
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 |
"The Truman Show", starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released |
1999 |
131st Belmont: Jose Santos aboard Lemon Drop Kid wins in 2:27.88 |
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. |
2001 |
OPEC ministers agree to leave the cartel's oil production quotas unchanged for at least a month, until a scheduled emergency meeting July 3 |
2003 |
A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region. |
2004 |
136th Belmont: Edgar Prado aboard Birdstone wins in 2:27.50 |
2005 |
59th Tony Awards: Monty Python's Spamalot & Doubt win |
2006 |
Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. |
2009 |
Chileo officially enters recession; it is the first South American country to enter the global recession |
2010 |
142nd Belmont: Mike Smith riding Drosselmeyer wins in 2:31.57 |
2013 |
44 people are killed by a lightning storm in Bihar, India |
2013 |
Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan |
2013 |
47th Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins |
2013 |
47th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins |
2016 |
Thousands Rally in Hong Kong to Mark Tiananmen Anniversary |
2016 |
In pushback to US, China says 'has no fear of trouble' in South China Sea |
2016 |
Kerry warns Beijing over air defense zone for South China Sea |
2017 |
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain cut ties to Qatar |
2017 |
Stars praise Manchester's resilience at Ariana Grande benefit |
2017 |
ISIS claims responsibility for London Bridge attack |
2018 |
Over 60 dead in Guatemala volcano eruption |
2018 |
Gay adoption fight looms after US Supreme Court's cake ruling |
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