June 5 Historical Events

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

Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.

• 1959
  The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
• 1963
  The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the “Profumo affair”.
• 1963
  Movement 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.
• 1964
  DSV Alvin is commissioned.
• 1967
  The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
• 1968
  Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. 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 country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
• 1976
  The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
• 1977
  A coup takes place in Seychelles.
• 1977
  The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.-->
• 1981
  The “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 out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

• 1984
  The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
• 1989
  The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 1993
  Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
• 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 lasts seven weeks.
• 2000
  The 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.
• 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 causes $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.
• 2004
  Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, dies at 93.
• 2006
  Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• 2009
  After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
• 2012
  The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins.
• 2013
  A building collapse in Philadelphia kills 6, wounds 14 other people.