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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 23, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,749,081,600 seconds 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 ‘hectapentacontahexagon’ day.
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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 257 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 4,549 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.
- 1849 –Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
- 1941 –Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- 1947 –Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1959 –The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- 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.
- 1976 –Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
Who were born on June 5?
- 1553 –Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1640 –Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
- 1878 –Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
- 1895 –William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1905 –Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935)
- 1950 –Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977)
- 1967 –Matt Bullard, American basketball player
- 1973 –Lamon Brewster, American boxer
- 1974 –Chad Allen, American actor
- 1980 –Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on June 5?
- 535 –Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
- 1017 –Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
- 1738 –Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
- 1902 –Louis J. Weichmann, American witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
- 1906 –Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- 1910 –O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
- 1967 –Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
- 1998 –Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
- 2001 –Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher and humanist (b. 1908)
- 2006 –Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
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