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The following events took place on June 5. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 56 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 70

  Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
• 754

  Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia.
• 1257

  Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
• 1283

  Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.
• 1625

  The city of Breda surrenders to the Spanish tercios under general Ambrosio Spinola.
• 1798

  The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the 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 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 is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức 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.
• 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.
• 1916

  Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
• 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.
• 1940

  World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot (“Case Red”).
• 1941

  World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
• 1942

  World War II: The 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 La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
• 1947

  Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
• 1949

  Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
• 1956

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

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