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, 29,151,360 minutes 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1964 –DSV Alvin is commissioned.
- 1975 –The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
- 1993 –Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
- 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.
Who were born on June 5?
- 1554 –Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of Charles IX of France (d. 1592)
- 1877 –Willard Miller, American sailor (d. 1959)
- 1899 –Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)
- 1905 –John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
- 1944 –Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
- 1956 –Richard Butler, English singer (The Psychedelic Furs)
- 1961 –Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
- 1962 –Jeff Garlin, American comedian
- 1977 –Christian Martucci, American musician
- 1977 –Navi Rawat, American actress
Who died on June 5?
- 535 –Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
- 754 –Saint Boniface, an 8th century English missionary, bishop and martyr
- 1118 –Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
- 1316 –King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
- 1716 –Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
- 1975 –Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
- 1998 –Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
- 2000 –Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 2003 –Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
- 2009 –Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
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