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.
  • 1817 –
    The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
  • 1829 –
    HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1900 –
    Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • 1915 –
    Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1963 –
    Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
  • 1975 –
    The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
  • 1977 –
    A coup takes place in Seychelles.
  • 1984 –
    Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
  • 2006 –
    Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

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