About June 5

June 5, 2020 is the 157th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 252 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.
  • 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.
  • 1849 –
    Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1959 –
    The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
  • 1964 –
    DSV Alvin is commissioned.
  • 1967 –
    Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
  • 1969 –
    The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

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