Title: June 5 Content: == Events == === Up to 1950 === * 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle of the Wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem. * 1224 - The University of Naples is founded. * 1257 - Krakow receives city rights. * 1283 - Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles II of Naples. * 1654 - Queen Christina I of Sweden abdicates (leaves) the throne and secretly converts to Roman Catholicism. * 1806 - Louis Bonaparte becomes regent of the Netherlands. * 1817 - The first Great Lakes steamer, Frontenac, is launched. * 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship, Voladora, off Cuba. * 1832 - The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe. * 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated as part of the then-Republic of Texas. * 1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. * 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's serial Uncle Tom's Cabin starts a 10-month run in the 'National Era' newspaper. * 1862 - The Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France. The guerrilla, Huong Dinh, continues to fight against the Europeans, against the order of Emperor Tu Duc. * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont, Virginia - Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. * 1870 - Fire rips through Pera, a part of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), destroying over 3,000 houses and killing around 1,300 people. * 1883 - The first regularly-scheduled Orient Express leaves Paris. * 1888 - An earthquake of over magnitude 5 strikes the Rio de la Plata region between Argentina and Uruguay. * 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. * 1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to give women the right to vote. * 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as Justice of the United States Supreme Court. * 1917 - World War I: Conscription into the military, for the war, begins in the United States. * 1924 - The first fax to be sent across the Atlantic Ocean is sent by Ernst Alexanderson. * 1941 - 4,000 Chongqing residents choke to death in a bomb shelter during the bombing of Chongqing. * 1942 - World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. * 1944 - World War II: Over 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries in Normandy, in preparation for the D-Day landings the next day. * 1945 - The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany after World War II, officially takes control. * 1946 - A fire at the Fort de la Salle Hotel in Chicago kills 61 people. * 1947 – George Marshall calls for aid to war-torn Europe. * 1949 - Thailand's first female Member of Parliament, Orapin Chaiyakin, is elected. === 1951 2000 === * 1953 - Denmark's Constitution is reformed, allowing a woman to become monarch. Future Queen, Margrethe II of Denmark, becomes next- in-line to the throne. * 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces the famous Hound Dog single. * 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. * 1963 – British politician John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal. * 1963 - Mass protests occur in Iran against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is arrested. * 1967 – The Six-Day War begins, fought between Israel and its neighbours. * 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day as a result of his injuries. * 1969 - The International Communist Conference begins on Moscow. * 1975 - Egypt's Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. * 1975 - The United Kingdom holds a referendum on membership of the European Economic Community, with a majority voting to stay part of the organization. * 1976 - The Teton Dam in Idaho collapses, killing 11 people. * 1977 – A coup occurs in the Seychelles. * 1981 - The first cases of what would later be known as AIDS, are reported. * 1984 - Operation Blue Star: Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders a storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest place in the Sikh religion. * 1989 – The Unknown Rebel halts a line of tanks in an act of defiance at the Chinese government's violent crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. * 1998 – A seven-week strike begins at General Motors. * 1998 - Ethiopia and Eritrea start fighting a border war. * 2000 - Sumatra is hit by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake, killing over 100 people. * 2000 - A 6-day war begins in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo between Rwandan and Ugandan forces. === From 2001 === * 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison hits Texas. * 2002 – Elizabeth Smart, a teenager, is kidnapped from her home in Utah. * 2003 – A heatwave in India and Pakistan reaches its height with temperatures of over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). * 2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States dies from pneumonia at the age of 93. * 2006 – Serbia declares independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. * 2009 - A fire kills 31 people at a day-care center in Hermosillo, Mexico. * 2011 - Ollanta Humala defeats Keiko Fujimori in a close Presidential election in Peru. He becomes President on July 28. * 2012 - Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker becomes the first US state governor to keep his position after a recall election. == Births == === Up to 1900 === *1341 – Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402) *1493 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555) *1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617) *1606 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (d. 1684) *1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715) *1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684) *1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744) *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 chemist, physicist and mineralogist (d. 1852) *1771 – Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (d. 1851) *1781 – Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar (d. 1860) *1791 - Salim bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (d. 1856) *1805 - Samuel Adams, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1850) *1806 - Magnus Eiriksson, Icelandic theologian and writer (d. 1881) *1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) *1830 - Carmine Crocco, Italian guerrilla (d. 1905) *1850 – Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908) *1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930) *1868 - James Connolly, Scottish-Irish socialist leader and general (d. 1916) *1868 - William W. Brandon, 37th Governor of Alabama (d. 1934) *1876 – Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920) *1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923) *1879 – Robert Mayer, philanthropist (d. 1985) *1883 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946) *1884 – Ralph Benatzky, composer (d. 1957) *1884 - Frederick Lorz, American long-distance runner (d. 1914) *1892 - Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1944) *1894 – Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976) *1895 – William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972) *1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936) *1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960) *1899 - Otis Barton, American engineer and diver (d. 1992) *1899 - Theippan Maungwa, Burmese writer (d. 1942) *1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 1979) === 1901 1950 === *1902 - Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author and activist (d. 1957) *1906 - Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer (d. 1981) *1908 - Navi Naryana Reddy, Indian philanthropist and social reformer (d. 1991) *1912 – Josef Neckermann, German entrepreneur and dressage equestrian (d. 1992) *1914 - Beatrice De Cardi, British archaeologist *1919 – Richard Scarry, American children's writer (d. 1994) *1921 - Sheila Sim, British actress (d. 2016) *1925 – Art Donovan, American football player (d. 2013) *1925 – Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986) *1926 - Camillo Cibin, Italian papal bodyguard (d. 2009) *1926 - Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian colonel-general (d. 2015) *1928 – Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994) *1928 – Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991) *1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996) *1931 – Jacques Demy, French playwright (d. 1990) *1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher *1932 – Christy Brown, Irish writer (d. 1981) *1933 - William Kahan, Canadian mathematician *1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist *1934 - Vilhjalmur Einarsson, Icelandic athlete *1935 - Helmut Benthaus, German footballer *1938 – Karin Balzer, East 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, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004) *1941 - Robert Kraft, American businessman *1942 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea *1944 - Massimo Cacciari, Italian philosopher and politician *1944 – Tommie Smith, American athlete *1945 - Patrick Head, English businessman *1946 - Stefania Sandrelli, Italian actress *1947 – Kevin Schon, American actor *1947 – Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer *1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh writer === 1951 1975 === *1952 – Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden) *1953 - Kathleen Kennedy, American movie producer *1954 - Simon Hopkinson, English food writer *1955 – Edinho, Brazilian footballer *1956 – Kenny G, American musician *1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, former President of the Comoros *1959 - Robert Lloyd, English singer *1960 - Julie Kirkbride, English politician *1961 - Anthony Burger, American singer and pianist (d. 2006) *1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999) *1962 – Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este *1962 - Jeff Garlin, American actor, comedian and producer *1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano *1965 - Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010) *1967 – Joe DeLoach, American athlete *1968 - Ed Vaizey, English lawyer and politician *1970 – Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player *1971 – Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), American singer and actor *1971 - Miyuki Komatsu, Japanese actress *1972 – Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean), American professional wrestler *1973 - Andy McLaren, Scottish footballer *1974 - Chad Allen, American actor *1974 - Nina Conti, English ventriloquist and actress *1975 - Anna Nova, German pornographic actress === From 1976 === *1976 - Ross Noble, English comedian *1976 - Aesop Rock, American rapper, musician, songwriter and producer *1978 - Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer *1979 – David Bisbal, Spanish singer *1979 - François Sagat, French actor *1979 - David Weir, British Paralympic athlete *1979 – Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy) *1981 – Jade Goody, British TV personality (d. 2009) *1981 – Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) *1982 - Zvjezdan Misimovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer *1984 – Mark Wilson, Scottish footballer *1985 - Jeremy Abbott, American figure skater *1985 - Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player *1985 - Rubén de la Red, Spanish footballer *1986 - Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player *1986 - Amanda Crew, Canadian actress *1987 - Charlie Clements, English actor *1987 - Marcus Thornton, American basketball player *1989 - Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress *1990 - Sophie Lowe, English-Australian movie actress *1990 - Junior Hoilett, Canadian footballer *1991 - Martin Braithwaite, Danish footballer *1992 - Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer *1993 - Laura Giuliani, Italian footballer *1995 - Beckii Cruel, British dancer and singer *1997 - Kieran Tierney, Scottish footballer *1998 - Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater *2005 - Irene Urdangarin y Borbon, Spanish royal == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === * 301 - Sima Lun, Chinese usurper of the Jin Dynasty (b. 249) * 535 - Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople * 567 - Patriarch Theodosius I of Alexandria * 754 - Saint Boniface, English missionary, bishop and martyr * 1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976) * 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245) * 1316 – King Louis X of France (b. 1289) * 1568 - Lamoral, Count Egmont, Flemish soldier and statesman (b. 1522) * 1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583) * 1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607) * 1688 - Constantin Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1647) * 1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682) * 1722 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer and musician (b. 1660) * 1791 - Frederick Haldimand, 22nd Governor of Quebec (b. 1718) * 1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741) * 1819 - Bodawpaya, King of Burma (b. 1745) * 1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1786) * 1857 - Henry Hubbard, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1784) * 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815) * 1900 – Stephen Crane, American writer (b. 1871) === 1901 2000 === * 1904 - Sami Frasheri, Albanian writer (b. 1850) * 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842) * 1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862) * 1916 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850) * 1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862) * 1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885) * 1947 - Nils Olof Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884) * 1967 - Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher and educator (b. 1878) * 1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian painter (b. 1916) * 1979 - Heinz Erhardt, German actor and comedian (b. 1909) * 1991 - Heo Jong-suk, Korean writer, poet, journalist and Communist activist (b. 1902) * 1993 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933) * 1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911) * 1998 - Sam Yorty, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1909) * 1999 - Mel Tormé, American jazz musician (b. 1925) * 2000 - Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925) * 2000 – Franco Rossi, Italian movie director and producer (b. 1919) === From 2001 === * 2001 - Pedro Lain Estralgo, Spanish medical researcher (b. 1908) * 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (b. 1951) * 2003 - Juergen Moellemann, German politician (b. 1944) * 2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904) * 2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911) * 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922) * 2008 - Eugenio Montejo, Venezuelan poet (b. 1938) * 2012 - Barry Unsworth, British author (b. 1930) * 2012 - Ray Bradbury, American writer (b. 1920) * 2013 - Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (b. 1921) * 2014 - Reiulf Steen, Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1933) * 2014 - Don Davis, American musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1938) * 2015 - Alan Bond, Australian businessman (b. 1938) * 2015 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1980) * 2015 - Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936) * 2015 - Jane Briggs Hart, American aviator (b. 1921) * 2015 - Sadun Boro, Turkish sailor (b. 1928) * 2015 - Giacomo Furia, Italian actor (b. 1925) * 2015 - Kazuo Chiba, Japanese Aikido teacher (b. 1940) * 2016 - Manohar Aich, Indian bodybuilder (b. 1914) * 2016 - Gianluca Buonanno, Italian politician (b. 1966) * 2016 - Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915) * 2016 - Jarbas Passarinho, Brazilian politician (b. 1920) * 2017 - Kathryn Stripling Byer, American poet (b. 1944) * 2017 - Andy Cunningham, British magician, puppeteer and actor (b. 1950) * 2017 - Helen Dunmore, British writer (b. 1952) * 2017 - Marilyn Hall, Canadian-born American television producer and philanthropist (b. 1927) * 2017 - Giuliano Sarti, Italian footballer (b. 1933) * 2017 - Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (b. 1986) * 2018 - Brian Browne, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1937) * 2018 - Pierre Carniti, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1936) * 2018 - Denman, Irish-bred racehorse (b. 2000) * 2018 - Feng Ting-kuo, Taiwanese politician (b. 1990) * 2018 - Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962) == Observances == * Constitution Day (Denmark) * World Environment Day * Arbor Day (New Zealand) * Liberation Day (Seychelles) June 05