About June 5
June 5, 2024 is the 157th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 238 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1883 –The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
- 1915 –Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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