Historical Events on June 5

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• 754 Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions

• 1257 Kraków, Poland, receives city rights.
• 1284 Charles of Salerno is captured by Roger of Lauria during a naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, part of the Sicilian Vespers uprising
• 1288 Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I
• 1305 Archbishop Bertrand the Got of Bordeaux elected Pope Clement V
• 1507 England and Netherlands sign trade agreement
• 1625 Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda

• 1716 England and Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty
• 1752 Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
• 1794 US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
• 1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.

• 1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)


• 1806 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
• 1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
• 1827 Turks capture the Acropolis and take Athens during Greek War of Independence
• 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba
• 1832 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion

• 1846 Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
• 1848 Statue of prince William the Silent, Prince of Orange, unveiled
• 1849 Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
• 1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
• 1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Jakarta)
• 1861 Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE
• 1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia (Deep Run)
• 1863 CSS Alabama captures "Talisman" in the Mid Atlantic
• 1864 Battle of Piedmont, Virginia (Augusta City)
• 1869 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
• 1870 Constantinople fire; 900 die
• 1872 Republican National Convention meets (Philadelphia)
• 1873 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
• 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco


• 1876 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
• 1879 13th Belmont: George Evans riding Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
• 1882 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
• 1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
• 1886 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41

• 1888 The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
• 1899 Alfred Dreyfus acquitted
• 1900 Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller

• 1902 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Scotsman Sandy Herd wins by 1 stroke from James Braid and Harry Vardon
• 1906 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
• 1911 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
• 1912 US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba
• 1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
• 1915 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
• 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage
• 1916 The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire
• 1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I

• 1920 A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
• 1922 The Banker's committee of the Reparations Commission refuses an international loan to Germany

• 1926 Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
• 1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
• 1927 French Championships Men's Tennis: Hometown favourite Rene Lacoste wins 2nd of 3 French titles; beats Bill Tilden 6-4, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 11-9
• 1927 32nd Women's French Championships: Kornelia Bouman beats Irene Peacock (6-2, 6-4)
• 1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
• 1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
• 1931 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour outlasts José Jurado of Argentina by 1 stroke to win his only Open title and his 3rd and final major championship
• 1933 US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
• 1933 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Jack Crawford wins his first and only French title; beats home favourite Henri Cochet 8-6, 6-1, 6-3
• 1933 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's Margaret Scriven is first woman from that country to win the singles title in Paris; beats beats Simonne Mathieu 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
• 1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
• 1937 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6

• 1940 A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• 1940 American Negro Theater organizes
• 1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
• 1940 General Von Bock starts a German offensive in the Somme

• 1940 Governor of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
• 1940 Netherlands rations petroleum

• 1941 World War II: At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing
• 1942 British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie
• 1942 An explosion at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant kills 48 people
• 1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
• 1943 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
• 1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
• 1943 Philippine President José P. Laurel survives assassination attempt after being shot 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong
• 1944 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure

• 1944 Allies march into Rome

• 1945 Benjamin Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" premieres in London
• 1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
• 1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 in Chicago, Illinois
• 1946 Eric de Noorman, a Dutch comic strip by Hans G. Kresse, is launched

• 1948 "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" single released by Stan Jones

• 1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

• 1952 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing
• 1952 Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley

• 1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution
• 1953 US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN
• 1954 "Your Show Of Shows" last airs on NBC-TV
• 1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos

• 1956 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on NBC-TV
• 1956 Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
• 1957 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
• 1959 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota

• 1960 "George Gobel Show" last airs on CBS-TV
• 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal
• 1963 Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina

• 1965 "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2


• 1965 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6
• 1965 Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras
• 1966 Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader

• 1966 French Championships Women's Tennis: Ann Haydon-Jones of England beats American Nancy Richey 6-3, 6-1 for her 2nd French singles crown
• 1967 Six-day war begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
• 1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair
• 1967 WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible

• 1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
• 1969 Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut
• 1969 The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
• 1970 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1970 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• 1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon
• 1971 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6
• 1971 French Open Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong wins her first career Grand Slam singles title; beats fellow Australian Helen Gourlay 6-3, 7-5
• 1972 "If You Had Wings" opens
• 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

• 1975 48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
• 1975 United Kingdom electorate votes 67% to 33% in a referendum to remain part of the European Common Market

• 1975 The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
• 1976 "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57
• 1976 108th Belmont: Angel Cordero Jr riding Bold Forbes wins in 2:29
• 1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
• 1976 After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland


• 1977 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2
• 1977 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
• 1977 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
• 1977 Los Angeles Dodgers retire Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman and manager Walter Alston's #24
• 1977 French Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wins first career Grand Slam event; outclasses American Brian Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0

• 1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
• 1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

• 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles

• 1981 World's first today in history program with editable data "TODAY", invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer
• 1982 "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
• 1982 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
• 1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
• 1982 French Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats American teenager Andrea Jaeger 7-6, 6-1 for her first French singles crown
• 1983 37th Tony Awards: "Torch Song Trilogy" and "Cats" win
• 1983 French Open: Home town favourite Yannick Noah wins his 1st and only career Grand Slam title; beats defending champion Mats Wilander of Sweden 6-2, 7-5, 7-6

• 1985 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
• 1986 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
• 1987 "Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM
• 1987 Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & allows wins game
• 1988 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
• 1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
• 1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
• 1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates it's 1,000th anniversary
• 1988 French Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander of Sweden wins 3rd French title; beats home favourite Henri Leconte 7-5, 6-2, 6-1
• 1989 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
• 1989 Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires

• 1989 Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3

• 1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.

• 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
• 1993 "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18
• 1993 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
• 1993 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
• 1993 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
• 1993 French Open Women's Tennis: Germany's Steffi Graf wins her 3rd of 6 French singles titles; beats Mary Joe Fernández of the US 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• 1994 "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 1994 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
• 1994 French Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Spanish final Sergi Bruguera beats Alberto Berasategui 6-3, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 for his second French title
• 1995 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire

• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee, on WMFS 92.9 FM
• 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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