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This day in history: 5 June

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Key facts

345 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 5 June.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2025: The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide.

Holidays and observances

Arbor Day (New Zealand)

Christian feast day: Blessed Meinwerk

Christian feast day: Boniface

Christian feast day: Dorotheus of Gaza

Christian feast day: Dorotheus of Tyre

Christian feast day: Genesius, Count of Clermont

Christian feast day: June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Luke Loan Ba Vu (Roman Catholic Church)

Constitution Day (Denmark)

Father's Day (Denmark)

Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)

Liberation Day (Seychelles)

Events

2025The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide.

2024The Boeing Starliner is launched on its first crewed flight, carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station.

2022A constitutional referendum is held in Kazakhstan following violent protests and civil unrest against the government.

2017Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO.

2017Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.

2016Two shootings in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kill six people.

2015An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthqu

2012Last transit of Venus until the year 2117.

2009A fire at a day-care center kills 49 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.

2009After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.

2004Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.

2003A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region.

2002Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-111, carrying the Expedition 5 crew to the International Space Station to replace the Expedition 4 crew. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz becomes the second person to have flown on seven spaceflights.

2001Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S.

2000The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.

1998A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.

1997The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins.

1995The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.

1993Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.

1991Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-40, the fifth spacelab mission.

1989The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1984Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

1983More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel, yet the ship remained

1981The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns

1976The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses. Eleven people are killed as a result of flooding.

1975The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.

1975The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).

1968Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

1967The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.

1964DSV Alvin is commissioned.

1963Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.

1963The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".

1960The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.

1959The first government of Singapore is sworn in.

1956Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1949Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.

1947Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

1946A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.

1945The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

1944World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

Born on this day

2002Selwyn Cobbo, Australian rugby league player

2001Chaeryeong, South Korean singer and dancer

1998Dave, British rapper

1998Jaqueline Cristian, Romanian tennis player

1998Kale Clague, Canadian ice hockey player

1998Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater

1997Sam Darnold, American football player

1996Jamayne Isaako, New Zealand rugby league player

1995Ross Wilson, English table tennis player

1995Troye Sivan, South African–born Australian singer-songwriter, actor, and YouTuber

1993Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player

1992Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer

1992Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian footballer

1992Sam Rainbird, Australian cricketer

1991Ninja, American professional gamer

1991Sören Bertram, German footballer

1990Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey player

1989Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player

1989Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress and singer

1988Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer

1987Marcus Thornton, American basketball player

1986Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Vernon Gholston, American football player

1985Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player

1985Jeremy Abbott, American figure skater

1984Robert Barbieri, Canadian-Italian rugby player

1983Marques Colston, American football player

1982Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombonist (died 2005)

1981Sébastien Lefebvre, Canadian singer and guitarist

1981Serhat Akın, Turkish footballer

1980Antonio García, Spanish racing driver

1980Chris Flannery, Australian rugby league player

1980Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player

1979Jason White, American race car driver

1979Matthew Scarlett, Australian footballer

1979Pete Wentz, American singer-songwriter, bass player, actor, and fashion designer

1979Stefanos Kotsolis, Greek footballer

1978Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer

1978Nick Kroll, American actor and comedian

1977Liza Weil, American actress

Died on this day

2024Rosa, former sea otter at Monterey Bay Aquarium (born 1999)

2023Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer (born 1940)

2021T. B. Joshua, Nigerian televangelist (born 1963)

2018Kate Spade, American fashion designer (born 1962)

2017Andy Cunningham, English actor (born 1950)

2017Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (born 1986)

2016Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (born 1915)

2015Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (born 1938)

2015Richard Johnson, English actor (born 1927)

2015Roger Vergé, French chef and author (born 1930)

2015Tariq Aziz, Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1936)

2014Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, Iraqi commander (born 1971)

2014Don Davis, American songwriter and producer (born 1938)

2014Reiulf Steen, Norwegian journalist and politician, Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications (born 1933)

2013Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (born 1933)

2013Michel Ostyn, Belgian physiologist and physician (born 1924)

2013Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish republican activist and politician (born 1932)

2013Stanisław Nagy, Polish cardinal (born 1921)

2012Charlie Sutton, Australian footballer and coach (born 1924)

2012Hal Keller, American baseball player and manager (born 1928)

2012Mihai Pătrașcu, Romanian-American computer scientist (born 1982)

2012Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (born 1920)

2011Azam Khan, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (born 1950)

2009Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1978)

2006Edward L. Moyers, American businessman (born 1928)

2006Frederick Franck, Dutch-American painter, sculptor, and author (born 1909)

2005Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican scholar and politician (born 1949)

2005Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (born 1917)

2004Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (born 1941)

2004Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th president of the United States (born 1911)

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca

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