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 156^th 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.

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.

June 5 Historical Events

• 70 –
  Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
• 1798 –
  The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
• 1832 –
  The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1916 –
  Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1945 –
  The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
• 1946 –
  A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
• 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.
• 1993 –
  Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.

Who were born on June 5?

• 1902 –
  Arthur Powell Davies, American religious minister (d. 1957)
• 1923 –
  Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
• 1941 –
  Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
• 1947 –
  Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
• 1951 –
  Jill Biden, American educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden
• 1953 –
  Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
• 1967 –
  Ron Livingston, American actor
• 1977 –
  Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
• 1979 –
  Jason White, American racing driver
• 1982 –
  Baron Geisler, Filipino actor

Who died on June 5?

• 1118 –
  Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
• 1383 –
  Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
• 1568 –
  Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
• 1722 –
  Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
• 1910 –
  O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
• 1967 –
  Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
• 2000 –
  Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 –
  Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
• 2005 –
  Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
• 2009 –
  Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)