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, 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1900 –
  Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• 1916 –
  Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1946 –
  A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
• 1947 –
  Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
• 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.

Who were born on June 5?

• 1877 –
  Willard Miller, American sailor (d. 1959)
• 1905 –
  Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935)
• 1941 –
  Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
• 1950 –
  Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990)
• 1951 –
  Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
• 1952 –
  Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
• 1971 –
  Mark Wahlberg, American rapper and actor
• 1977 –
  Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
• 1980 –
  Brandi Shearer, American musician
• 1986 –
  Christian Baracat, German rugby player

Who died on June 5?

• 301 –
  Sima Lun, Chinese usurper
• 1568 –
  Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
• 1866 –
  John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
• 1902 –
  Louis J. Weichmann, American witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
• 1967 –
  Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
• 1976 –
  Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 –
  Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
• 2001 –
  Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher and humanist (b. 1908)
• 2002 –
  Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
• 2004 –
  Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)