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
- 1829 –HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 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.
- 1883 –The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
- 1888 –The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- 1916 –Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1917 –World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- 1963 –British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
- 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.
- 1977 –The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
- 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.
- 1995 –The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
- 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.
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