What are the important events that happened on June 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 5 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 23, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,096 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontaheptagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,184 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 5 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1888 –The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- 1942 –World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 5?
- 1493 –Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- 1660 –Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
- 1894 –Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
- 1912 –Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
- 1941 –Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
- 1951 –Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
- 1964 –Lisa Cholodenko, American filmmaker
- 1979 –David Bisbal, Spanish singer
- 1986 –Vernon Gholston, American football player
- 1988 –Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer
Who died on June 5?
- 1296 –Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
- 1716 –Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
- 1819 –Bodawpaya, King of Burma (b. 1745)
- 1825 –Odysseas Androutsos, national hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
- 1826 –Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1913 –Chris von der Ahe, German-born baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
- 1920 –Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
- 1947 –Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and film director (b. 1884)
- 2002 –Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
- 2002 –Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
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