Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1741 - Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska. 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning) 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate publicly their montgolfière (hot air balloon) 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer launched. 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba 1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage 1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter. 1849 - Signing of the Danish constitution 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont 1895 - Nicholas Flood Davin's motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canadian House of Commons. 1900 - Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa 1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band 1916 - Louis Brandeis becomes Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States 1940 - Canadian Cabinet declares Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal and jails leaders. 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of an Axis nation to fall 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 1947 - Marshall Plan: United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe 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 1967 - Six-Day War: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. He dies the next day 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles 1977 - The Apple II personal computer goes on sale 1984 - President of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the Sikh holy spot 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created 2001 - 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 - Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home 2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released. Births 1341 - Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (+ 1402) 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, furniture maker (+ 1779) 1723 - Adam Smith, economist (+ 1790) 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, physiologist (+ 1808) 1771 - King Ernest I of Hanover (+ 1851) 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, classical scholar (+ 1860) 1819 - John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of Neptune 1850 - Pat Garrett, Western lawman (+ 1908) 1876 - Tony Jackson, musician (+ 1921) 1879 - Robert Mayer, philanthropist (+ 1985) 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, economist (+ 1946) 1884 - Ralph Benatzky, composer (+ 1957) 1887 - Pancho Villa, revolutionary (+ 1923) 1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, publisher(+ 1976) 1895 - William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), actor (+ 1972) 1898 - Federico García Lorca, lyricist and dramatist (+ 1936) 1912 - Josef Neckermann, entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (+ 1992) 1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer 1919 - Richard Scarry, children's author (+ 1994) 1925 - Boy Gobert, actor (+ 1986) 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star 1928 - Robert Lansing, actor (+ 1994) 1928 - Tony Richardson, actor (+ 1991) 1931 - Jacques Demy, playwright 1932 - Christy Brown, author (+ 1981) 1934 - Bill Moyers, journalist and muckraker 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada 1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist 1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist 1941 - Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist 1944 - Tommie Smith, athlete 1947 - Laurie Anderson, performance artist, actress, composer 1949 - Ken Follett, author 1954 - Nicko McBrain, musician (Iron Maiden) 1956 - Luci Francum nee Geissler 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium 1971 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), singer, actor 1979 - David Bisbal, singer Deaths 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople 1316 - King Louis X of France 1900 - Stephen Crane, author 1910 - O. Henry, author 1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, Field Marshal 1920 - Rhoda Broughton, author 1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright 1930 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse" 1942 - Samuel Adams, naval officer 1975 - Paul Keres, chess player 1993 - Conway Twitty, country musician 1998 - Jeanette Nolan, actress 1998 - Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California 1999 - Mel Tormé, singer, composer, actor 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, musician ("The Ramones") 2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician Holidays and observances National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day) Feast of Saint Boniface Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í Calendar See Also: June 4 - June 6 - May 5 - July 5 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.