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
- 70 –Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1257 –Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
- 1817 –The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
- 1832 –The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
- 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.
- 1883 –The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
- 1888 –The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1915 –Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
- 1933 –The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 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.
- 1967 –Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
- 1969 –The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 1975 –The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- 1977 –A coup takes place in Seychelles.
- 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.
- 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).
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