About June 5

June 5, 2024 is the 157th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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Gemini is the sun 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 238 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 5

  • 1798 –
    The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
  • 1849 –
    Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
  • 1862 –
    As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
  • 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.
  • 1883 –
    The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  • 1900 –
    Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • 1917 –
    World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
  • 1941 –
    Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
  • 1947 –
    Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    DSV Alvin is commissioned.
  • 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.
  • 1975 –
    The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
  • 1975 –
    The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
  • 1977 –
    The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
  • 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.
  • 1993 –
    Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
  • 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).
  • 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.

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