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

  • 1257 –
    Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
  • 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.
  • 1832 –
    The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
  • 1837 –
    Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
  • 1849 –
    Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1956 –
    Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
  • 1959 –
    The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

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