About June 5
June 5, 2024 is the 157th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 238 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 5
- 70 –Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1829 –HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1837 –Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 1849 –Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1917 –World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
- 1942 –World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1946 –A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
- 1947 –Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1949 –Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
- 1967 –Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
- 1975 –The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
- 1977 –The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
- 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.
- 1984 –Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
- 1993 –Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
- 1995 –The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
- 2003 –A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
- 2006 –Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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