About June 5
June 5, 2022 is the 156th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 231 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.
- 1832 –The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
- 1849 –Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 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.
- 1862 –As the Treaty of Saigon is 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.
- 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.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1915 –Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
- 1917 –World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
- 1941 –Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- 1942 –World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1949 –Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
- 1959 –The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- 1964 –DSV Alvin is commissioned.
- 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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