WillDekkard
06-05-2010, 05:28 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 5th
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* 70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
* 1257 Krakσw, Poland receives city rights.
* 1305 Raymond Bertrand de Got becomes Pope Clement V, succeeding Pope Benedict XI who died one year earlier.
* 1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
* 1817 The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
* 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
* 1832 The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
* 1837 Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
* 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.
* 1862 As the Treaty of Saigon was 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.
* 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.
* 1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
* 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
* 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.
* 1941 Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
* 1942 World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
* 1944 World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
* 1945 The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
* 1946 A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
* 1947 Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
* 1956 Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
* 1959 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
* 1963 British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
* 1963 Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
* 1964 DSV Alvin is commissioned.
* 1967 Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
* 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.
* 1969 The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
* 1975 The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
* 1975 The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
* 1976 Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
* 1977 A coup takes place in Seychelles.
* 1977 The Apple II, one of the first personal computer, goes on sale.
* 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.
* 1984 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
* 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.
* 1995 The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
* 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 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
* 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.
* 2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
* 2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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- June 5th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
* 1257 Krakσw, Poland receives city rights.
* 1305 Raymond Bertrand de Got becomes Pope Clement V, succeeding Pope Benedict XI who died one year earlier.
* 1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
* 1817 The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
* 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
* 1832 The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
* 1837 Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
* 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.
* 1862 As the Treaty of Saigon was 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.
* 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.
* 1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
* 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
* 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.
* 1941 Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
* 1942 World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
* 1944 World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
* 1945 The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
* 1946 A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
* 1947 Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
* 1956 Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
* 1959 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
* 1963 British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
* 1963 Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
* 1964 DSV Alvin is commissioned.
* 1967 Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
* 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.
* 1969 The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
* 1975 The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
* 1975 The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
* 1976 Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
* 1977 A coup takes place in Seychelles.
* 1977 The Apple II, one of the first personal computer, goes on sale.
* 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.
* 1984 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
* 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.
* 1995 The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
* 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 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
* 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.
* 2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
* 2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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