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June 5th


- Khordad Movement Anniversary (Iran)
- Arbor Day (New Zealand)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Constitution Day and Father's Day (Denmark)
- Feast of Núr, the first day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
- Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)
- Liberation Day (Seychelles)
- President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- World Environment Day (International)

June 5th


- 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
- 2003 - A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1995 - The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
- 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
- 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
- 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles.
- 1977 - The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
- 1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
- 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- 1975 - The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
- 1969 - The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
- 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1964 - DSV Alvin is commissioned.
- 1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
- 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
- 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- 1947 - Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
- 1945 - The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
- 1942 - World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- 1941 - Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 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 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
- 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1888 - The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
- 1862 - As the Treaty of Saigon was signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
- 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 1832 - The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
- 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1817 - The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
- 1798 - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
- 1257 - Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
- 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.

June 5th


- 2005 - Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
- 1995 - Troye Sivan, South African/Australian actor and singer
- 1992 - Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
- 1989 - Megumi Nakajima, Filipina-Japanese voice actress & singer
- 1988 - Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer
- 1987 - Charlie Clements, English actor
- 1986 - Christian Baracat, German rugby player
- 1986 - Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 - Amanda Crew, Canadian actress
- 1986 - Vernon Gholston, American football player
- 1985 - Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
- 1984 - Robert Barbieri, Canadian-born Italian rugby player
- 1983 - Bill Bray, American baseball player
- 1983 - Marques Colston, American football player
- 1982 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends)
- 1982 - Baron Geisler, Filipino actor
- 1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009)
- 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
- 1980 - Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators)
- 1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
- 1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
- 1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1979 - Jason White, American racing driver
- 1978 - Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
- 1977 - Liza Weil, American actress
- 1977 - Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
- 1977 - Christian Martucci, American musician
- 1977 - Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
- 1977 - Navi Rawat, American actress
- 1976 - Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player
- 1976 - Torry Holt, American football player
- 1976 - Ross Noble, English comedian
- 1976 - Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist
- 1976 - Jack Ross, Scottish footballer
- 1975 - Žydr?nas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1975 - Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
- 1974 - Chad Allen, American actor
- 1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
- 1974 - P-Nut, American bassist (311)
- 1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
- 1973 - Jenn Rivell, American actress
- 1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
- 1973 - Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
- 1973 - Galilea Montijo, Mexican actress
- 1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
- 1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
- 1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
- 1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
- 1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
- 1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American rapper and actor
- 1971 - Miyuki Komatsu, Japanese actress
- 1970 - Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
- 1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
- 1967 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
- 1967 - Ray Lankford, American baseball player
- 1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor
- 1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
- 1965 - Michael E. Brown, American astronomer
- 1964 - Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
- 1964 - Lisa Cholodenko, American filmmaker
- 1964 - Rick Riordan, American author
- 1963 - Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
- 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium
- 1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian
- 1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
- 1961 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
- 1960 - Leslie Hendrix, American actress
- 1960 - Margo Lanagan, Australian author
- 1959 - Robert Lloyd, English musician (The Nightingales)
- 1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
- 1958 - Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician
- 1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (The Psychedelic Furs)
- 1956 - Kenny G, American saxophonist
- 1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
- 1954 - Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
- 1953 - Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
- 1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1952 - Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
- 1952 - Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden)
- 1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
- 1951 - Jill Biden, American educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden
- 1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
- 1950 - Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990)
- 1950 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977)
- 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author
- 1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
- 1947 - Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
- 1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor
- 1946 - Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
- 1945 - John Carlos, American athlete
- 1945 - Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)
- 1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
- 1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
- 1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician
- 1941 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
- 1941 - Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
- 1941 - Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
- 1941 - Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
- 1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1939 - Margaret Drabble, English novelist
- 1938 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler
- 1937 - Hélène Cixous, French writer, poet
- 1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
- 1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
- 1931 - Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
- 1931 - Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
- 1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
- 1928 - Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1928 - Tony Richardson, British film director (d. 1991)
- 1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
- 1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
- 1923 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
- 1919 - Richard Scarry, American author/illustrator (d. 1994)
- 1916 - Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager
- 1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
- 1905 - John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
- 1905 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935)
- 1902 - Arthur Powell Davies, American religious minister (d. 1957)
- 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)
- 1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960)
- 1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
- 1895 - William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)
- 1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
- 1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
- 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
- 1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
- 1879 - René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
- 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
- 1877 - Willard Miller, American sailor (d. 1959)
- 1876 - Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (d. 1957)
- 1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
- 1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
- 1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
- 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
- 1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
- 1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
- 1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
- 1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
- 1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
- 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
- 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
- 1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
- 1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
- 1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
- 1554 - Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of Charles IX of France (d. 1592)
- 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1523 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
- 1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- 1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)