Historical Events on June 5

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• 754 Friezen robbers murder Bishop Boniface (later Saint) and over 50 companions near Dokkum
• 1257 Kraków, Poland, receives city rights.

• 1288 Battle of Worringen: Jan I, Duke of Brabant defeats army of Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne, one of the largest and fiercest battles of the Middle Ages
• 1305 Archbishop Bertrand the Got of Bordeaux elected Pope Clement V
• 1507 England and Netherlands sign trade agreement
• 1625 Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda

• 1752 Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
• 1794 US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
• 1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated

• 1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
• 1806 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
• 1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
• 1827 Turks capture the Acropolis and take Athens during the Greek War of Independence
• 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba
• 1832 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion

• 1846 Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore

• 1849 Danish National Day, Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy

• 1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
• 1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Jakarta)
• 1861 Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE
• 1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia (Deep Run)
• 1863 CSS Alabama captures "Talisman" in the Mid Atlantic
• 1864 Battle of Piedmont, Virginia (Augusta City)
• 1866 French colonial expedition to explore Mekong River (world's 12th longest, though Southeast Asia) sets out from Saigon, led by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée
• 1870 Great Fire of Pera in a district of Constantinople, the wealthiest part of the city, kills hundreds
• 1872 Republican National Convention meets in Philadelphia
• 1873 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
• 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco
• 1876 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
• 1878 American outlaw John Wesley Hardin convicted of the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb, sentenced to 25 years in prison
• 1882 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
• 1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
• 1888 Unusual Rio de la Plata Earthquake measures magnitude 5.5

• 1900 Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller

• 1906 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
• 1911 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
• 1912 US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba
• 1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
• 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage
• 1916 Louis Brandeis (59) is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; he serves until 1939
• 1916 The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire
• 1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I

• 1920 Philadelphia Athletics's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
• 1922 The Banker's committee of the Reparations Commission refuses an international loan to Germany
• 1926 Clevelands Indians baseball team triple-play NY Yankees & win 15-3

• 1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
• 1931 Jules Renkin (68) becomes Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1933 US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
• 1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)

• 1940 A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• 1940 American Negro Theater organizes

• 1940 General Von Bock starts a German offensive in the Somme
• 1940 Governor of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
• 1940 Netherlands rations petroleum
• 1940 WWII: Battle of France - Fall Rot (Case Red), Germany invaded northern France, crossing the River Somme
• 1941 German ammunition depot at medieval Smederovo Fortress, near Belgrade, Serbia explodes; kills close to 2,000

• 1941 World War II: At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing
• 1942 An explosion at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant kills 48 people
• 1942 British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie
• 1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
• 1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
• 1943 Philippine President José P. Laurel survives assassination attempt after being shot 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong
• 1944 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure

• 1944 Allied forces march into Rome
• 1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion

• 1945 WWII: Allied Powers (US, UK, USSR, and France) assume supreme authority over Germany with the "Berlin Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany" [1]
• 1946 Dutch comic strip "Eric de Noorman" by Hans G. Kresse is launched
• 1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 in Chicago, Illinois

• 1948 "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" single released by Stan Jones

• 1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

• 1952 Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley
• 1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution
• 1953 US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN
• 1954 "Your Show Of Shows" last airs on NBC-TV

• 1956 US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
• 1957 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
• 1959 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota

• 1960 "The George Gobel Show" last airs on CBS-TV
• 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal
• 1963 Dutch Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina

• 1964 Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee) debuts in San Bernadino, California
• 1965 "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2
• 1965 Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras
• 1966 Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
• 1967 American mass murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair (later reversed, dies in prison)
• 1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible

• 1967 WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
• 1969 International communist conference begins in Moscow
• 1969 Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut
• 1970 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• 1970 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon
• 1972 "If You Had Wings" ride opens at Walt Disney World
• 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

• 1975 48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor

• 1975 The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
• 1975 United Kingdom electorate votes 67% to 33% in a referendum to remain part of the European Common Market
• 1976 "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57
• 1976 After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
• 1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
• 1977 31st Tony Awards: "The Shadow Box" (play) & "Annie" (musical) win
• 1977 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)

• 1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
• 1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
• 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles

• 1981 World's first today in history program with editable data "TODAY", invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer
• 1982 "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
• 1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
• 1983 37th Tony Awards: "Torch Song Trilogy" (play) and "Cats" (musical) win

• 1985 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby

• 1987 "Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM

• 1988 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
• 1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
• 1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
• 1988 Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary

• 1989 Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3

• 1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.

• 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
• 1993 "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18

• 1993 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
• 1994 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon

• 1995 The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created
• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee, on WMFS 92.9 FM

• 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)
• 2000 Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 2001 OPEC ministers agree to leave the cartel's oil production quotas unchanged for at least a month, until a scheduled emergency meeting July 3
• 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.
• 2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party
• 2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
• 2005 59th Tony Awards: "Monty Python's Spamalot" (musical) & "Doubt: A Parable" (play) win
• 2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
• 2007 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second flyby of Venus
• 2007 Paul McCartney releases "Memory Almost Full", in US; his fourteenth solo studio album was the first release on Starbucks' Hear Music label
• 2009 At least 32 people are killed in Peru during clashes between the police and indigenous protesters
• 2009 Chile officially enters recession; it is the first South American country to enter the global recession
• 2012 American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election.
• 2013 44 people are killed by a lightning storm in Bihar, India

• 2014 MLB Draft: Cathedral Catholic HS (CA) pitcher Brady Aiken first pick by Houston Astros
• 2015 6.0 magnitude earthquake (strongest to affect Malaysia since 1978) strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people on Mount Kinabalu

• 2016 Swiss vote to reject referendum to give each citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 Swiss francs per month
• 2017 Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit
• 2017 Bus crashes with a truck in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India, 22 die in resulting fire
• 2017 Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO
• 2017 Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over

• 2018 US Judge Aaron Persky, criticized for his leniency towards campus sex attacker Brock Turner, becomes the 1st judge voted out in 80 years in Santa Clara, California

• 2019 Denmark general election won by Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats, defeating sitting Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's Liberal party
• 2019 Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County

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