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 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 23, 2022 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,654,387,200 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 231 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 3,453 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 5 Historical Events
- 70 –Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1832 –The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1949 –Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
- 1959 –The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
- 1976 –Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
- 1981 –The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
- 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.
- 1998 –A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
- 2006 –Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Who were born on June 5?
- 1493 –Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- 1934 –Bill Moyers, American journalist
- 1939 –Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1952 –Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden)
- 1956 –Kenny G, American saxophonist
- 1960 –Margo Lanagan, Australian author
- 1961 –Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
- 1964 –Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
- 1974 –Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
- 1989 –Megumi Nakajima, Filipina-Japanese voice actress & singer
Who died on June 5?
- 1017 –Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
- 1667 –Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
- 1902 –Louis J. Weichmann, American witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
- 1975 –Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
- 1976 –Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1996 –Acharya Kuber Nath Rai,Indian Writer(b.1933)
- 1998 –Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
- 2002 –Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
- 2004 –Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
- 2009 –Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
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