About June 5

June 5, 2025 is the 156th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 257 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 5

  • 1798 –
    The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
  • 1817 –
    The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1883 –
    The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  • 1888 –
    The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
  • 1915 –
    Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
  • 1916 –
    Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • 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.
  • 1946 –
    A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
  • 1949 –
    Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
  • 1963 –
    British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
  • 1969 –
    The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
  • 1975 –
    The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
  • 1975 –
    The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
  • 1976 –
    Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
  • 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.
  • 1995 –
    The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
  • 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).
  • 2003 –
    A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.

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