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, 485,856 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 ‘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
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
- 1933 –The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 1963 –British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
- 1969 –The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 2003 –A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
- 2006 –Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Who were born on June 5?
- 1781 –Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
- 1879 –René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
- 1895 –William Roberts, British painter (d. 1980)
- 1920 –Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
- 1951 –Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
- 1954 –Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
- 1972 –Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
- 1976 –Ross Noble, English comedian
- 1979 –Jason White, American racing driver
- 1981 –Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009)
Who died on June 5?
- 301 –Sima Lun, Chinese usurper
- 1825 –Odysseas Androutsos, national hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
- 1866 –John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
- 1902 –Louis J. Weichmann, American witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
- 1906 –Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- 1916 –Lord Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
- 1920 –Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
- 1947 –Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and film director (b. 1884)
- 1999 –Mel Tormé, American singer, composer, and actor (b. 1925)
- 2004 –Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
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