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

  • 1817 –
    The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
  • 1829 –
    HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
  • 1837 –
    Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
  • 1900 –
    Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • 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.
  • 1941 –
    Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
  • 1945 –
    The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    DSV Alvin is commissioned.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 1977 –
    The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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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