June 5

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 70 &ndash; Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle of the Wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
* 1224 &ndash; The University of Naples is founded.
* 1257 &ndash; Krakow receives city rights.
* 1283 &ndash; Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles II of Naples.
* 1654 &ndash; Queen Christina I of Sweden abdicates (leaves) the throne and secretly converts to Roman Catholicism.
* 1806 &ndash; Louis Bonaparte becomes regent of the Netherlands.
* 1817 &ndash; The first Great Lakes steamer, *Frontenac*, is launched.
* 1829 &ndash; HMS *Pickle* captures the armed slave ship, *Voladora*, off Cuba.
* 1832 &ndash; The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
* 1837 &ndash; Houston, Texas is incorporated as part of the then–Republic of Texas.
* 1849 &ndash; Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
* 1851 &ndash; Harriet Beecher Stowe's serial Uncle Tom's Cabin starts a 10–month run in the 'National Era' newspaper.
* 1862 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Fire rips through Pera, a part of Constantinople (present–day Istanbul), destroying over 3,000 houses and killing around 1,300 people.
* 1883 &ndash; The first regularly–scheduled Orient Express leaves Paris.
* 1888 &ndash; An earthquake of over magnitude 5 strikes the Rio de la Plata region between Argentina and Uruguay.
* 1900 &ndash; Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
* 1915 &ndash; Denmark amends its constitution to give women the right to vote.
* 1916 &ndash; Louis Brandeis is sworn in as Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: Conscription into the military, for the war, begins in the United States.
* 1924 &ndash; The first fax to be sent across the Atlantic Ocean is sent by Ernst Alexanderson.
* 1941 &ndash; 4,000 Chongqing residents choke to death in a bomb shelter during the bombing of Chongqing.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
* 1944 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany after World War II, officially takes control.
* 1946 &ndash; A fire at the Fort de la Salle Hotel in Chicago kills 61 people.
* 1947 &ndash; George Marshall calls for aid to war–torn Europe.
* 1949 &ndash; Thailand's first female Member of Parliament, Orapin Chaiyakin, is elected.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1953 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Elvis Presley introduces the famous Hound Dog single.
* 1959 &ndash; The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
* 1963 &ndash; British politician John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
* 1963 &ndash; Mass protests occur in Iran against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is arrested.
* 1967 &ndash; The Six-Day War begins, fought between Israel and its neighbours.
* 1968 &ndash; Robert F. Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day as a result of his injuries.
* 1969 &ndash; The International Communist Conference begins on Moscow.
* 1975 &ndash; Egypt's Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
* 1975 &ndash; The United Kingdom holds a referendum on membership of the European Economic Community, with a majority voting to stay part of the organization.
* 1976 &ndash; The Teton Dam in Idaho collapses, killing 11 people.
* 1977 &ndash; A coup occurs in the Seychelles.
* 1981 &ndash; The first cases of what would later be known as AIDS, are reported.
* 1984 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A seven–week strike begins at General Motors.
* 1998 &ndash; Ethiopia and Eritrea start fighting a border war.
* 2000 &ndash; Sumatra is hit by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake, killing over 100 people.
* 2000 &ndash; A 6–day war begins in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo between Rwandan and Ugandan forces.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Tropical Storm Allison hits Texas.
* 2002 &ndash; Elizabeth Smart, a teenager, is kidnapped from her home in Utah.
* 2003 &ndash; A heatwave in India and Pakistan reaches its height with temperatures of over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
* 2004 &ndash; Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States dies from pneumonia at the age of 93.
* 2006 &ndash; Serbia declares independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
* 2009 &ndash; A fire kills 31 people at a day–care center in Hermosillo, Mexico.
* 2011 &ndash; Ollanta Humala defeats Keiko Fujimori in a close Presidential election in Peru. He becomes President on July 28.
* 2012 &ndash; Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker becomes the first US state governor to keep his position after a recall election.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
*1341 &ndash; Edmund of Langley, a younger son of King Edward III of England (d. 1402)
*1493 &ndash; Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
*1553 &ndash; Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
*1606 &ndash; Pierre Corneille, French playwright (d. 1684)
*1640 &ndash; Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
*1646 &ndash; Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
*1660 &ndash; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
*1718 &ndash; Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
*1723 &ndash; Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
*1757 &ndash; Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
*1760 &ndash; Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist (d. 1852)
*1771 &ndash; Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (d. 1851)
*1781 &ndash; Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar (d. 1860)
*1791 &ndash; Salim bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (d. 1856)
*1805 &ndash; Samuel Adams, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1850)
*1806 &ndash; Magnus Eiriksson, Icelandic theologian and writer (d. 1881)
*1819 &ndash; John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
*1830 &ndash; Carmine Crocco, Italian guerrilla (d. 1905)
*1850 &ndash; Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
*1862 &ndash; Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
*1868 &ndash; James Connolly, Scottish–Irish socialist leader and general (d. 1916)
*1868 &ndash; William W. Brandon, 37th Governor of Alabama (d. 1934)
*1876 &ndash; Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
*1878 &ndash; Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
*1879 &ndash; Robert Mayer, philanthropist (d. 1985)
*1883 &ndash; John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
*1884 &ndash; Ralph Benatzky, composer (d. 1957)
*1884 &ndash; Frederick Lorz, American long–distance runner (d. 1914)
*1892 &ndash; Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1944)
*1894 &ndash; Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
*1895 &ndash; William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
*1898 &ndash; Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
*1898 &ndash; Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960)
*1899 &ndash; Otis Barton, American engineer and diver (d. 1992)
*1899 &ndash; Theippan Maungwa, Burmese writer (d. 1942)
*1900 &ndash; Dennis Gabor, Hungarian–born physicist (d. 1979)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
*1902 &ndash; Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author and activist (d. 1957)
*1906 &ndash; Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer (d. 1981)
*1908 &ndash; Navi Naryana Reddy, Indian philanthropist and social reformer (d. 1991)
*1912 &ndash; Josef Neckermann, German entrepreneur and  dressage equestrian (d. 1992)
*1914 &ndash; Beatrice De Cardi, British archaeologist
*1919 &ndash; Richard Scarry, American children's writer (d. 1994)
*1921 &ndash; Sheila Sim, British actress (d. 2016)
*1925 &ndash; Art Donovan, American football player (d. 2013)
*1925 &ndash; Boy Gobert, actor (d. 1986)
*1926 &ndash; Camillo Cibin, Italian papal bodyguard (d. 2009)
*1926 &ndash; Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian colonel–general (d. 2015)
*1928 &ndash; Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)
*1928 &ndash; Tony Richardson, British actor (d. 1991)
*1930 &ndash; Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
*1931 &ndash; Jacques Demy, French playwright (d. 1990)
*1931 &ndash; Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher
*1932 &ndash; Christy Brown, Irish writer (d. 1981)
*1933 &ndash; William Kahan, Canadian mathematician
*1934 &ndash; Bill Moyers, American journalist
*1934 &ndash; Vilhjalmur Einarsson, Icelandic athlete
*1935 &ndash; Helmut Benthaus, German footballer
*1938 &ndash; Karin Balzer, East German hurdler
*1939 &ndash; Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
*1939 &ndash; Margaret Drabble, English novelist
*1941 &ndash; Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
*1941 &ndash; Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (d. 2004)
*1941 &ndash; Robert Kraft, American businessman
*1942 &ndash; Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea
*1944 &ndash; Massimo Cacciari, Italian philosopher and politician
*1944 &ndash; Tommie Smith, American athlete
*1945 &ndash; Patrick Head, English businessman
*1946 &ndash; Stefania Sandrelli, Italian actress
*1947 &ndash; Kevin Schon, American actor
*1947 &ndash; Laurie Anderson, American performance artist, actress, composer
*1949 &ndash; Ken Follett, Welsh writer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
*1952 &ndash; Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
*1953 &ndash; Kathleen Kennedy, American movie producer
*1954 &ndash; Simon Hopkinson, English food writer
*1955 &ndash; Edinho, Brazilian footballer
*1956 &ndash; Kenny G, American musician
*1958 &ndash; Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, former President of the Comoros
*1959 &ndash; Robert Lloyd, English singer
*1960 &ndash; Julie Kirkbride, English politician
*1961 &ndash; Anthony Burger, American singer and pianist (d. 2006)
*1961 &ndash; Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
*1962 &ndash; Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
*1962 &ndash; Jeff Garlin, American actor, comedian and producer
*1965 &ndash; Sandrine Piau, French soprano
*1965 &ndash; Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
*1967 &ndash; Joe DeLoach, American athlete
*1968 &ndash; Ed Vaizey, English lawyer and politician
*1970 &ndash; Martin Gelinas, Canadian ice hockey player
*1971 &ndash; Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), American singer and actor
*1971 &ndash; Miyuki Komatsu, Japanese actress
*1972 &ndash; Mike Bucci (Nova, Simon Dean), American professional wrestler
*1973 &ndash; Andy McLaren, Scottish footballer
*1974 &ndash; Chad Allen, American actor
*1974 &ndash; Nina Conti, English ventriloquist and actress
*1975 &ndash; Anna Nova, German pornographic actress

### From 1976 
*1976 &ndash; Ross Noble, English comedian
*1976 &ndash; Aesop Rock, American rapper, musician, songwriter and producer
*1978 &ndash; Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer
*1979 &ndash; David Bisbal, Spanish singer
*1979 &ndash; François Sagat, French actor
*1979 &ndash; David Weir, British Paralympic athlete
*1979 &ndash; Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
*1981 &ndash; Jade Goody, British TV personality (d. 2009)
*1981 &ndash; Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
*1982 &ndash; Zvjezdan Misimovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
*1984 &ndash; Mark Wilson, Scottish footballer
*1985 &ndash; Jeremy Abbott, American figure skater
*1985 &ndash; Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player
*1985 &ndash; Rubén de la Red, Spanish footballer
*1986 &ndash; Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player
*1986 &ndash; Amanda Crew, Canadian actress
*1987 &ndash; Charlie Clements, English actor
*1987 &ndash; Marcus Thornton, American basketball player
*1989 &ndash; Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress
*1990 &ndash; Sophie Lowe, English–Australian movie actress
*1990 &ndash; Junior Hoilett, Canadian footballer
*1991 &ndash; Martin Braithwaite, Danish footballer
*1992 &ndash; Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
*1993 &ndash; Laura Giuliani, Italian footballer
*1995 &ndash; Beckii Cruel, British dancer and singer
*1997 &ndash; Kieran Tierney, Scottish footballer
*1998 &ndash; Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
*2005 &ndash; Irene Urdangarin y Borbon, Spanish royal

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 301 &ndash; Sima Lun, Chinese usurper of the Jin Dynasty (b. 249)
* 535 &ndash; Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople
* 567 &ndash; Patriarch Theodosius I of Alexandria
* 754 &ndash; Saint Boniface, English missionary, bishop and martyr
* 1017 &ndash; Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)
* 1296 &ndash; Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
* 1316 &ndash; King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
* 1568 &ndash; Lamoral, Count Egmont, Flemish soldier and statesman (b. 1522)
* 1625 &ndash; Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
* 1667 &ndash; Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
* 1688 &ndash; Constantin Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1647)
* 1716 &ndash; Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
* 1722 &ndash; Johann Kuhnau, German composer and musician (b. 1660)
* 1791 &ndash; Frederick Haldimand, 22nd Governor of Quebec (b. 1718)
* 1816 &ndash; Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
* 1819 &ndash; Bodawpaya, King of Burma (b. 1745)
* 1826 &ndash; Carl Maria von Weber, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1786)
* 1857 &ndash; Henry Hubbard, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1784)
* 1866 &ndash; John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
* 1900 &ndash; Stephen Crane, American writer (b. 1871)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1904 &ndash; Sami Frasheri, Albanian writer (b. 1850)
* 1906 &ndash; Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
* 1910 &ndash; O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
* 1916 &ndash; Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
* 1921 &ndash; Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
* 1930 &ndash; Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
* 1947 &ndash; Nils Olof Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
* 1967 &ndash; Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher and educator (b. 1878)
* 1975 &ndash; Paul Keres, Estonian painter (b. 1916)
* 1979 &ndash; Heinz Erhardt, German actor and comedian (b. 1909)
* 1991 &ndash; Heo Jong-suk, Korean writer, poet, journalist and Communist activist (b. 1902)
* 1993 &ndash; Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
* 1998 &ndash; Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
* 1998 &ndash; Sam Yorty, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1909)
* 1999 &ndash; Mel Tormé, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
* 2000 &ndash; Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
* 2000 &ndash; Franco Rossi, Italian movie director and producer (b. 1919)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Pedro Lain Estralgo, Spanish medical researcher (b. 1908)
* 2002 &ndash; Dee Dee Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
* 2003 &ndash; Juergen Moellemann, German politician (b. 1944)
* 2003 &ndash; Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
* 2004 &ndash; Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
* 2007 &ndash; Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
* 2008 &ndash; Eugenio Montejo, Venezuelan poet (b. 1938)
* 2012 &ndash; Barry Unsworth, British author (b. 1930)
* 2012 &ndash; Ray Bradbury, American writer (b. 1920)
* 2013 &ndash; Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (b. 1921)
* 2014 &ndash; Reiulf Steen, Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1933)
* 2014 &ndash; Don Davis, American musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1938)
* 2015 &ndash; Alan Bond, Australian businessman (b. 1938)
* 2015 &ndash; Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1980)
* 2015 &ndash; Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936)
* 2015 &ndash; Jane Briggs Hart, American aviator (b. 1921)
* 2015 &ndash; Sadun Boro, Turkish sailor (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Giacomo Furia, Italian actor (b. 1925)
* 2015 &ndash; Kazuo Chiba, Japanese Aikido teacher (b. 1940)
* 2016 &ndash; Manohar Aich, Indian bodybuilder (b. 1914)
* 2016 &ndash; Gianluca Buonanno, Italian politician (b. 1966)
* 2016 &ndash; Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
* 2016 &ndash; Jarbas Passarinho, Brazilian politician (b. 1920)
* 2017 &ndash; Kathryn Stripling Byer, American poet (b. 1944)
* 2017 &ndash; Andy Cunningham, British magician, puppeteer and actor (b. 1950)
* 2017 &ndash; Helen Dunmore, British writer (b. 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Marilyn Hall, Canadian–born American television producer and philanthropist (b. 1927)
* 2017 &ndash; Giuliano Sarti, Italian footballer (b. 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (b. 1986)
* 2018 &ndash; Brian Browne, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1937)
* 2018 &ndash; Pierre Carniti, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Denman, Irish–bred racehorse (b. 2000)
* 2018 &ndash; Feng Ting-kuo, Taiwanese politician (b. 1990)
* 2018 &ndash; Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962)

## Observances 
* Constitution Day (Denmark)
* World Environment Day
* Arbor Day (New Zealand)
* Liberation Day (Seychelles)