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Events [ ] 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem .1257 - Kraków , Poland received city rights.1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.1798 - Battle of New Ross : The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora Cuba .1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.1837 - Houston 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 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 , taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888 : Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5 Richter Scale , 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W.1900 - Second Boer War : British soldiers take Pretoria .1900 - The German Cruise liner , Deutschland III sets a new speed record.1907 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage .1916 - Stein's Dixie Jazz Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jazz 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."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 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 .1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog ", on 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 .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 were 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 by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan . Kennedy dies the next day.1969 - 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 UK holds its first and only UK -wide referendum , on remaining in the 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 homosexual men in Los Angeles 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.1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn , United States , dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide ; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.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 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint , 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 - Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region.2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro Births [ ] 1341 - Edmund of Langley , son of Edward III of England (d. 1402 )1493 - Justus Jonas , German Protestant reformer (d. 1555 )1523 - Margaret of France (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 (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 , American actor (d. 1972 )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 )1919 - Richard Scarry , American children's author (d. 1994 )1920 - Cornelius Ryan , Irish-American author (d. 1974 )1923 - Daniel Pinkham , American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006 )1923 - Jorge Daponte , Argentine racing driver (d. 1963 )
1925 - Art Donovan , American football star1928 - Tony Richardson , British actor (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 journalist1938 - Karin Balzer , German hurdler1939 - Joe Clark , sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada 1939 - Margaret Drabble , English novelist
1941 - Martha Argerich , Argentine pianist1941 - Spalding Gray , American actor and writer (d. 2004 )
1941 - Robert Kraft , owner of the New England Patriots
1941 - Erasmo Carlos , Brazilian singer and songwriter
1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo , Equatoguinean politician1943 - Matthew Lesko , American author1944 - Tommie Smith , American athlete1944 - Colm Wilkinson , Irish singer
1945 - John Carlos , American Athlete1945 - Patrick Head , British engineer
1946 - Freddie Stone , American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone )1946 - John Bach , Welsh actor
1947 - Laurie Anderson , American performance artist1947 - Tom Evans , English musician (Badfinger ) (d. 1983 )
1949 - Ken Follett , Welsh author1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder , American television host and author1951 - Suze Orman , American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.1952 - Daniel Katzen , Symphony musician1952 - Carole Fredericks , American singer (d. 2001 )
1954 - Nicko McBrain , English musician (Iron Maiden )1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho , Brazilian football player1956 - Richard Butler , English singer (Psychedelic Furs )1956 - Kenny G , American saxophonist
1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi , President of the Comoros 1960 - Dominic Kirwan , Irish singer1961 - Anthony Burger , American musician and singer (d. 2006 )1961 - Mary Kay Bergman , American voice actress (d. 1999 )
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium 1962 - Jeff Garlin , American comedian
1963 - Joe Rudán , Hungarian heavy metal singer1964 - Karl Sanders , vocalist/guitar virtuoso and founding member of the Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile .1965 - Sandrine Piau , French soprano1967 - Joe DeLoach , American athlete1967 - Ray Lankford , baseball player
1967 - Ron Livingston , American actor
1969 - Brian McKnight , American musician1970 - Martin Gelinas , Canadian hockey player1971 - Susan Lynch , Northern Irish actress1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi , Japanese racing driver
1971 - Mark Wahlberg , American singer and actor
1972 - Pavel Kotla , Polish conductor1972 - Chuck Klosterman , American journalist
1972 - Mike Bucci , American professional wrestler
1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw , Swedish musician and songwriter1973 - Lamon Brewster , American boxer
1974 - Chad Allen , American actor1974 - Russ Ortiz , American baseball player
1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas , Lithuanian basketball player1977 - Liza Weil , American actress1979 - David Bisbal , Spanish singer1979 - Fraser Watts , Scottish cricketer
1979 - Pete Wentz , American musician (Fall Out Boy )
1979 - Jason White , American NASCAR driver
1980 - Sutee Suksomkit , Thai football player1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre , Canadian musician (Simple Plan )1981 - Jade Goody , British television personality
2005 - Irene Urdangarin , granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of SpainDeaths [ ] 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople , patriarch of Constantinople 1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976 )1118 - Robert de Beaumont 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 , 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 )1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo , Italian Shoemaker1900 - Stephen Crane , American author (b. 1871 )1902 - Louis J. Weichmann , chief witness in the trail of the assassination 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 humanist2002 - 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 , 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 [ ] Liturgical Feasts [ ] External links [ ]
139 Familypedia people were born on June 5
145 Familypedia people died on June 5
100 Familypedia people were first married on June 5