June 5

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 5. From 1900 until now. June 5 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Mark Wahlberg (1971), Martha Argerich (1941) and Guy Carlier (1949). Several movies were released around June 5 over the years, such as Predator in 1987 directed by John McTiernan and A Day at the Races in 1937 directed by Sam Wood.
But much more happened on June 5 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Bah�'f Faith - Feast of N�r (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bah�'f Calendar.
Feast of Saint Boniface.
Seychelles - Liberation Day.
National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day).
World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972.
Anniversary of the Signing of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (Inuvaluit Day).
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Events

2019 Khartoum massacre: The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors say the number of people killed this week in Sudan is at least 100, and that 40 bodies were pulled from the River Nile at Khartoum on Tuesday. Members of the Rapid Support Forces have reportedly been roaming the streets attacking civilians as it pushes deeper into Khartoum. (BBC)A Sudanese official denies that 100 people were killed by a paramilitary unit during protests, saying that the number was at most 46. (BBC)
2018 Expansion of Heathrow Airport: The Cabinet of the United Kingdom approves a controversial third runway at London's Heathrow Airport. (Sky News)
2017 2017 Orlando shooting: A discharged 45-year-old former employee shoots and kills five people at a manufacturing business in Orlando, Florida, United States. The shooter took his own life afterwards. Eight others inside the workplace survived. (CNN) (ABC News)
2016 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present): Turkish Air Force bombs Kurdistan Workers' Party targets in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey killing at least 27 militants. (Reuters)
2015 A bomb explodes in a marketplace in Yola, Nigeria, killing 31 and injuring dozens of others. (AP), (CNN)
2014 Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:: Suspected Boko Haram militants launch an attack in a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing approximately 45 people. (BBC)
2013 Turkey's Ahmet Davutoğlu announces an investigation into police attacks on civilians with tear gas and water cannon in cities nationwide. (Al Jazeera)
2012 6 ampndash The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
2011 Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi.
2010 A cap is placed on the leaking pipe of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, allowing the spill to slow but not stop. (New York Times)
2009 Two thousand new private color photographs of Adolf Hitler are published. (Telegraph) (Daily News)
2008 Verizon Wireless announces it would buy mobile phone service provider Alltel for US$28.1 billion.
2007 The British Antarctic Survey announces that the flow rate of 300 previously unmeasured glaciers increased by 12% between 1993 and 2003, adding to concerns over glacier retreat and the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. (British Antarctic Survey)
2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2005 In separate referendums, the voters of Switzerland decide to ratify the Schengen treaty, abolishing all its normal land border controls by 2007, and also approve the legalizing of civil unions for gay couples, for tax and inheritance purposes, but not for child adoption. The Swiss Government had urged approval of both measures and the Swiss Parliament had previously passed legislation approving them. (BBC News)
2004 Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at the age of 93 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. (SF Chronicle) (BBC) (Reuters) (Washington Post)
2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50?C (122?F) in the region.
2002 Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her bedroom at knifepoint.
2001 (to June 9) Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain. Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the Texas Medical Center, which loses years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds US$5 billion.
2000 ''405 The Movie'', the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
1999 The AIS, the armed wing of FIS, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.
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).
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis TN on WMFS 92.9 FM
1995 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire
1994 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61)
1993 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1989 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Randy Travis
1988 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61)
1987 Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation and allows wins game
1986 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
1984 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1983 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy and Cats win
1982 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
1981 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)
1980 Soyuz T-2 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
1977 1st personal computer, Apple II, goes on sale
1976 Bigfoot by Bro Smith hits #57
1975 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
1973 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60)
1972 If You Had Wings opens
1971 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6
1970 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
1968 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
1967 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin
1966 Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1965 Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham and Pharaohs hits #2
1964 DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1963 Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
1960 George Gobel Show, last airs on CBS-TV
1959 Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota
1957 New York narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes.
1956 Milton Berle Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1954 Your Show Of Shows, last airs on NBC-TV
1953 US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN
1952 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs. Charles boxing
1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation.
1949 Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
1947 Sec of State George C Marshall outlines Marshall Plan
1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois, USA).
1945 Opera Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten, premieres in London
1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
1943 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
1940 American Negro Theater organizes
1937 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1933 Gold standard abolished
1931 Jules Renkin becomes Premier of Belgium
1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
1927 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
1926 Indians triple-play Yankees and win 15-3
1925 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester Country Club - Massachusetts
1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as ''Army registration day''.
1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1915 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1912 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time).
1911 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
1907 Automatic washer and dryer are introduced
1900 Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
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