June 5

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Events

70 - Titus and his Roman Empire legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
1257 - Kraków, Poland received city rights.
1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
1798 - battle of New Ross (1798): The attempt to spread Irish Rebellion of 1798 into Munster is defeated.
1817 - First Great Lakes (North America) steamer, the Frontenac (ship), is launched.
1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 - Paris student uprisings of 1832 begin.
1837 - Houston, Texas 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 or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: United States forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate States of America army at Piedmont, Virginia, 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: United Kingdom soldiers take Pretoria.
1907 - BAPS Bhagwan 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 Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
1933 - The Congress of the United States 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 United Kingdom bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on Germany 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 (song)", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 - The first government of the Singapore is sworn in.
1963 - United Kingdom 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 Israel 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, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 - 1969 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties begins in Moscow.
1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works copyright treaty.
1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 - The United Kingdom holds its first and only UK-wide United Kingdom referendum, 1975, on remaining in the European Economic Community.
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 homosexuality men 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 - 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, Washington, 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 - tank man 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 action begins at the General Motors Corporation parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 - United States Senate Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party (United States), an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party (United States).
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, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (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, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 - William Boyd (actor), 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 (actor), 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 star
1928 - 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 journalist
1938 - Karin Balzer, 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 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 politician
1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1945 - John Carlos, American Athlete
1945 - Patrick Head, British engineer
1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
1947 - Tom Evans (musician), from Badfinger (d. 1983)
1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 - Daniel Katzen, Symphony musician
1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1956 - Richard Butler (singer), English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist
1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
1960 - Dominic Kirwan, Irish singer
1961 - 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 singer
1964 - Karl Sanders, vocalist/guitar virtuoso and founding member of the Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile (band).
1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1967 - Ray Lankford, baseball player
1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1974 - Chad Allen (actor), American actor
1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1977 - Liza Weil, American actress
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1979 - Jason White (NASCAR), American NASCAR driver
1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality
1995 - S.Santhosh, Indian, Sports Analyst
2005 - Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
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, Count of Egmont, 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)
1900 - 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 humanist
2002 - 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 conducting (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

UN World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.
National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day (Denmark)).
Seychelles - Liberation Day.
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

Liturgical Feasts

Saint Boniface (died 754)
Saint Dorotheus
Saint Igor (died 1147)
Saint Valeria

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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Events

70 - Titus and his Roman Empire legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
1257 - Kraków, Poland received city rights.
1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
1798 - battle of New Ross (1798): The attempt to spread Irish Rebellion of 1798 into Munster is defeated.
1817 - First Great Lakes (North America) steamer, the Frontenac (ship), is launched.
1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 - Paris student uprisings of 1832 begin.
1837 - Houston, Texas 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 or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: United States forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate States of America army at Piedmont, Virginia, 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: United Kingdom soldiers take Pretoria.
1907 - BAPS Bhagwan 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 Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
1933 - The Congress of the United States 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 United Kingdom bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on Germany 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 (song)", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 - The first government of the Singapore is sworn in.
1963 - United Kingdom 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 Israel 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, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 - 1969 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties begins in Moscow.
1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works copyright treaty.
1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 - The United Kingdom holds its first and only UK-wide United Kingdom referendum, 1975, on remaining in the European Economic Community.
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 homosexuality men 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 - 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, Washington, 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 - tank man 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 action begins at the General Motors Corporation parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 - United States Senate Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party (United States), an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party (United States).
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, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (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, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 - William Boyd (actor), 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 (actor), 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 star
1928 - 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 journalist
1938 - Karin Balzer, 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 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 politician
1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1945 - John Carlos, American Athlete
1945 - Patrick Head, British engineer
1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
1947 - Tom Evans (musician), from Badfinger (d. 1983)
1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 - Daniel Katzen, Symphony musician
1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1956 - Richard Butler (singer), English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist
1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
1960 - Dominic Kirwan, Irish singer
1961 - 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 singer
1964 - Karl Sanders, vocalist/guitar virtuoso and founding member of the Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile (band).
1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
1967 - Ray Lankford, baseball player
1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1974 - Chad Allen (actor), American actor
1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 - Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1977 - Liza Weil, American actress
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1979 - Jason White (NASCAR), American NASCAR driver
1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality
1995 - S.Santhosh, Indian, Sports Analyst
2005 - Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
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, Count of Egmont, 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)
1900 - 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 humanist
2002 - 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 conducting (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

UN World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.
National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day (Denmark)).
Seychelles - Liberation Day.
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

Liturgical Feasts

Saint Boniface (died 754)
Saint Dorotheus
Saint Igor (died 1147)
Saint Valeria

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

June 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of the year.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 5 | 1967: Israel launches attack on Egypt
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