June 5 facts for kids

June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 209 days remain until the end of the year.

This page tells you about important things that happened on June 5th throughout history. You'll find out about big events, famous people who were born, and notable people who passed away on this day.

Events

Historical Moments Before 1900

• 1086 – Tutush, the brother of a Seljuk sultan, won a battle called battle of Ain Salm. He defeated Suleiman ibn Qutalmish, who was a Turkish ruler in Anatolia.
• 1257 – The city of Kraków in Poland was given special city rights. This meant it could govern itself more.
• 1284 – In the Battle of the Gulf of Naples, Roger of Lauria, an admiral, destroyed the Neapolitan fleet. He also captured Charles of Salerno.
• 1288 – The Battle of Worringen ended a conflict called the War of the Limburg Succession. John I, Duke of Brabant, was one of the main winners.
• 1610 – A special show called Tethys' Festival was performed at Whitehall Palace. It celebrated Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales becoming a prince.
• 1644 – The Qing dynasty's Manchu army, led by the Shunzhi Emperor, took control of Beijing. This happened during the end of the Ming dynasty.
• 1794 – During the Haitian Revolution, British soldiers captured Port-Républicain. This was the capital of Saint-Domingue.
• 1798 – An attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster failed. This happened at the Battle of New Ross.
• 1817 – The very first steamboat on the Great Lakes, named the Frontenac, was launched.
• 1829 – The British ship HMS Pickle captured an armed slave ship called Voladora. This happened off the coast of Cuba.
• 1832 – The June Rebellion started in Paris. People tried to overthrow the king, Louis Philippe.
• 1837 – The city of Houston in the Republic of Texas officially became a city.
• 1849 – Denmark became a constitutional monarchy. This means the king or queen's power is limited by a constitution.
• 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's story against slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, began to be published. It appeared in an abolitionist newspaper for ten months.
• 1862 – The Treaty of Saigon was signed. It gave parts of southern Vietnam to France. However, a leader named Trương Định decided to keep fighting against the Europeans.
• 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces won the Battle of Piedmont. They defeated a Confederate army and took many prisoners.
• 1873 – Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closed the large slave market. This was part of a treaty with Great Britain.
• 1883 – The first regular Orient Express train left Paris.
• 1888 – The Rio de la Plata earthquake occurred.
• 1900 – In the Second Boer War, British soldiers took control of Pretoria.

Important Events After 1900

• 1915 – Denmark changed its constitution to allow women's suffrage. This meant women could vote.
• 1916 – Louis Brandeis became a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was the first American Jew to hold this important position.
• 1916 – World War I: The Arab Revolt began. This was a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1917 – World War I: The United States started "Army registration day." This was when conscription (drafting people for the army) began.
• 1940 – World War II: German forces continued their attack against French divisions in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
• 1941 – World War II: Many people in Chongqing died in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
• 1942 – World War II: The United States declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
• 1944 – World War II: Over 1,000 British bombers dropped many bombs on German gun batteries in Normandy. This was to prepare for D-Day.
• 1945 – The Allied Control Council, which governed Germany after the war, officially took power.
• 1946 – A fire at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, caused 61 deaths.
• 1947 – Cold War: Marshall Plan: United States Secretary of State George Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University. He asked for economic help for Europe, which was damaged by war.
• 1949 – Thailand elected Orapin Chaiyakan. She was the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
• 1956 – Elvis Presley performed his new song, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show. His dancing caused a stir among the audience.
• 1959 – The first government of Singapore was officially sworn in.
• 1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests started in Iran after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested.
• 1964 – The deep-sea research submarine DSV Alvin was put into service.
• 1967 – The Six-Day War began. Israel launched surprise attacks on Egyptian airfields. This was because Egyptian forces had moved to the Israeli border.
• 1968 – Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy died after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan.
• 1975 – The Suez Canal opened again for the first time since the Six-Day War.
• 1975 – The United Kingdom held its first country-wide vote. People voted on whether to stay in the European Economic Community (EEC).
• 1976 – The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, broke. This caused floods that killed eleven people.
• 1981 – A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described five people in Los Angeles with a rare form of pneumonia. These were the first known cases of AIDS.
• 1983 – More than 100 people died when the Russian cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov hit a bridge. A freight train then went off its tracks, causing more damage.
• 1984 – Operation Blue Star: The Indian Army entered the Golden Temple, a holy site for Sikhs. This was ordered by India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
• 1989 – The Tank Man famously stopped a line of tanks for over half an hour. This happened after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 1993 – Parts of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in the UK fell into the sea because of a landslide.
• 1995 – The Bose–Einstein condensate was created for the first time. This is a special state of matter.
• 1997 – The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War began.
• 1998 – A strike began at a General Motors factory in Flint, Michigan. It quickly spread and lasted seven weeks.
• 2000 – The Six-Day War in Kisangani began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A large part of the city was destroyed.
• 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison hit the Texas coast. It brought a lot of rain to Houston and caused $5.5 billion in damages.
• 2003 – A very severe heat wave reached its peak in Pakistan and India. Temperatures went above 50 °C (122 °F).
• 2006 – Serbia declared its independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• 2015 – An earthquake with a strength of 6.0 hit Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia. It killed 18 people, including hikers on Mount Kinabalu.
• 2017 – Montenegro became the 29th member of NATO.
• 2017 – Six Arab countries cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. They accused Qatar of causing problems in the region.

Births

Born Before 1900

• 1341 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, a son of King Edward III of England.
• 1412 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, an Italian ruler.
• 1493 – Justus Jonas, a German priest and scholar.
• 1554 – Benedetto Giustiniani, an Italian clergyman.
• 1587 – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, an English colonial leader and admiral.
• 1596 – Peter Wtewael, a Dutch painter.
• 1640 – Pu Songling, a Chinese author.
• 1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, an Italian mathematician and philosopher.
• 1660 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.
• 1757 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, a French physiologist and philosopher.
• 1760 – Johan Gadolin, a Finnish chemist and physicist.
• 1771 – Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover.
• 1801 – William Scamp, an English architect and engineer.
• 1819 – John Couch Adams, an English mathematician and astronomer.
• 1830 – Carmine Crocco, an Italian soldier.
• 1850 – Pat Garrett, a famous American sheriff.
• 1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, a Swedish eye doctor and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1868 – James Connolly, a Scottish-born Irish rebel leader.
• 1876 – Isaac Heinemann, a German-Israeli scholar.
• 1877 – Willard Miller, a Canadian-American sailor and Medal of Honor winner.
• 1878 – Pancho Villa, a Mexican general and politician.
• 1883 – John Maynard Keynes, a famous English economist and philosopher.
• 1883 – Mary Helen Young, a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter in World War II.
• 1884 – Ralph Benatzky, a Czech-Swiss composer.
• 1884 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, an English author.
• 1894 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, a Canadian-English publisher.
• 1895 – William Boyd, an American actor and producer.
• 1898 – Salvatore Ferragamo, an Italian shoe designer who founded his own company.
• 1898 – Federico García Lorca, a Spanish poet and playwright.
• 1899 – Otis Barton, an American diver and engineer who designed the bathysphere.
• 1900 – Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian-English physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

Born After 1900

• 1912 – Dean Amadon, an American bird expert and author.
• 1913 – Conrad Marca-Relli, an American-Italian painter.
• 1914 – Beatrice de Cardi, an English archaeologist.
• 1915 – Lancelot Ware, an English lawyer and biochemist, who helped start Mensa.
• 1916 – Sid Barnes, an Australian cricketer.
• 1919 – Richard Scarry, an American-Swiss author and illustrator of children's books.
• 1920 – Marion Motley, an American football player.
• 1920 – Cornelius Ryan, an Irish-American journalist and author.
• 1922 – Sheila Sim, an English actress.
• 1924 – Art Donovan, an American football player.
• 1928 – Robert Lansing, an American actor.
• 1928 – Tony Richardson, an English-American director.
• 1931 – Suze Orman, an American financial advisor and TV host.
• 1932 – Christy Brown, an Irish painter and author.
• 1934 – Bill Moyers, an American journalist and former White House Press Secretary.
• 1938 – Moira Anderson, a Scottish singer.
• 1939 – Joe Clark, a Canadian journalist and former Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1939 – Margaret Drabble, an English novelist.
• 1941 – Martha Argerich, an Argentinian pianist.
• 1941 – Mark Wahlberg, an American model, actor, producer, and rapper.
• 1942 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the second President of Equatorial Guinea.
• 1944 – Whitfield Diffie, an American cryptographer.
• 1945 – John Carlos, an American runner and football player.
• 1946 – Kenny G, an American saxophonist and songwriter.
• 1947 – Laurie Anderson, an American singer-songwriter and violinist.
• 1949 – Ken Follett, a Welsh author.
• 1951 – Suze Orman, an American financial advisor and TV host.
• 1952 – Nicko McBrain, an English drummer for the band Iron Maiden.
• 1953 – Kathleen Kennedy, an American film producer.
• 1956 – Kenny G, an American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer.
• 1958 – Avigdor Lieberman, an Israeli soldier and politician.
• 1959 – Mark Ella, an Australian rugby player.
• 1961 – Mary Kay Bergman, an American voice actress.
• 1962 – Jeff Garlin, an American actor and comedian.
• 1964 – Rick Riordan, an American author, known for his Percy Jackson series.
• 1965 – Michael E. Brown, an American astronomer.
• 1967 – Ron Livingston, an American actor.
• 1971 – Mark Wahlberg, an American actor and producer.
• 1975 – Zydrunas Ilgauskas, a Lithuanian-American basketball player.
• 1976 – Torry Holt, an American football player.
• 1977 – Liza Weil, an American actress.
• 1978 – Nick Kroll, an American actor and comedian.
• 1979 – Pete Wentz, an American singer-songwriter and bass player.
• 1980 – Mike Fisher, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1985 – Jeremy Abbott, an American figure skater.
• 1986 – Dave Bolland, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1989 – Ninja, an American professional gamer.
• 1992 – Emily Seebohm, an Australian swimmer.
• 1995 – Troye Sivan, a South African–born Australian singer and actor.
• 1997 – Sam Darnold, an American football player.
• 1998 – Yulia Lipnitskaya, a Russian figure skater.

Deaths

Passed Away Before 1900

• 301 – Sima Lun, a Chinese emperor.
• 535 – Epiphanius, a patriarch of Constantinople.
• 567 – Theodosius I, a patriarch of Alexandria.
• 754 – Boniface, an English missionary.
• 879 – Ya'qub ibn al-Layth, a Persian emir.
• 928 – Louis the Blind, a king of Provence.
• 1017 – Sanjō, an emperor of Japan.
• 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, a Norman nobleman.
• 1296 – Edmund Crouchback, an English politician.
• 1316 – Louis X, a king of France.
• 1445 – Leonel Power, an English composer.
• 1530 – Mercurino Gattinara, an Italian statesman.
• 1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont.
• 1625 – Orlando Gibbons, an English organist and composer.
• 1716 – Roger Cotes, an English mathematician.
• 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, a German organist and composer.
• 1740 – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, an English politician.
• 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, a Swiss-Canadian general and governor of Quebec.
• 1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, an Italian composer.
• 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, a German pianist and composer.
• 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, a Scottish explorer.
• 1899 – Antonio Luna, a Filipino general.
• 1900 – Stephen Crane, an American poet and novelist.

Passed Away After 1900

• 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, a German philosopher.
• 1910 – O. Henry, a famous American short story writer.
• 1916 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, a British field marshal and politician.
• 1921 – Georges Feydeau, a French playwright.
• 1930 – Eric Lemming, a Swedish athlete.
• 1934 – William Holman, an English-Australian politician.
• 1965 – Eleanor Farjeon, an English author and poet.
• 1993 – Conway Twitty, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1999 – Mel Tormé, an American singer-songwriter.
• 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, an American singer and bass player for The Ramones.
• 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, a German politician.
• 2004 – Ronald Reagan, an American actor and the 40th President of the United States.
• 2012 – Ray Bradbury, a famous American science fiction writer.
• 2015 – Tariq Aziz, an Iraqi journalist and politician.
• 2015 – Richard Johnson, an English actor.
• 2016 – Jerome Bruner, an American psychologist.
• 2018 – Kate Spade, an American fashion designer.
• 2023 – Astrud Gilberto, a Brazilian singer.

Holidays and observances

• Arbor Day (New Zealand)
• Christian feast day:
  • Boniface (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Dorotheus of Tyre
  • Genesius, Count of Clermont
  • Blessed Meinwerk
  • June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Denmark)
• Father's Day (Denmark)
• Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)
• Liberation Day (Seychelles)
• President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
• Reclamation Day (Azerbaijan)
• World Day Against Speciesism (International)
• World Environment Day (International)

See also

In Spanish: 5 de junio para niños