On this day: 5 June

Years ago today

Events · 22

• 1086(Julian date)
  Battle of Ain Salm — 1086 battle between the Seljuks of Syria and Anatolia
• 1284(Julian date)
  Battle of the Gulf of Naples — 1284 naval battle
• 1288(Julian date)
  Battle of Worringen — 1288 medieval battle
• 1798
  Battle of New Ross — battle in 1798
• 1831
  Paris Uprising of 1832 — rebellion in Paris in June 1832
• 1862
  treaty of Saigon — 1862 treaty between Vietnam and France
• 1864
  Battle of Piedmont — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
• 1883
  Orient Express — international long-distance passenger train service
• 1888
  1888 Río de la Plata earthquake — June 1888 earthquake in Argentina and Uruguay
• 1945
  Allied Control Council — military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany
• 1960
  Lake Bodom murders — unsolved triple murder in Finland in 1960
• 1967
  Six-Day War — 1967 war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
• 1967
  Operation Focus — airstrike by Israel at the start of the Six-Day War in 1967
• 1968
  assassination of Robert F. Kennedy — 1968 murder in Los Angeles, California, US
• 1975
  United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975 — British referendum of 1975
• 2000
  Six-Day War — 2000 war between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda and Uganda
• 2009
  2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire in the hole — Fire in 2009, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
• 2009
  2009 Chengdu bus fire — 2009 arson attack in Chengdu, China
• 2012
  transit of Venus, 2012 — transit of Venus across the Sun visible from Earth on 5–6 June 2012
• 2016
  2016 Aktobe shootings — spate of three attacks on civilian and military targets in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 5 June 2016
• 2017
  Qatar diplomatic crisis — diplomatic crisis between several Arab League countries and Qatar
• 2022
  2022 Kazakh constitutional referendum — constitutional referendum held in Kazakhstan

Births · 60

• 1341(Julian date)
  Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York — Duke of York (1341–1402)
• 1523(Julian date)
  Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry — daughter of King Francis I of France (1523-1574)
• 1640
  Pu Songling — Chinese writer (1640–1715)
• 1646
  Elena Cornaro Piscopia — Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)
• 1718
  Thomas Chippendale — British cabinet-maker (1718–1779)
• 1757
  Pierre Jean George Cabanis — French physiologist and materialist philosopher (1757-1808)
• 1760
  Johan Gadolin — Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist (1760–1852)
• 1771
  Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover — King of Hanover from 1837 to 1851
• 1819
  John Couch Adams — English mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892)
• 1830
  Carmine Crocco — Italian brigand (1830–1905)
• 1850
  Pat Garrett — American sheriff (1850–1908)
• 1862
  Allvar Gullstrand — Swedish ophthalmologist (1862-1930)
• 1868
  James Connolly — Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary
• 1878
  — Mexican revolutionary (1878-1923)
• 1883
  John Maynard Keynes — British economist (1883–1946)
• 1887
  Ruth Benedict — American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)
• 1898
  Federico García Lorca — Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)
• 1900
  Dennis Gabor — Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
• 1907
  Rudolf Peierls — German-born British physicist
• 1920
  Cornelius Ryan — Irish American journalist (1920–1974)
• 1928
  Tony Richardson — English theatre and film director and producer (1928-1991)
• 1931
  Jacques Demy — French film director (1931-1990)
• 1932
  Christy Brown — Irish artist (1932-1981)
• 1933
  William Kahan — Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)
• 1933
  Velimir Bata Živojinović — Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician (1933-2016)

Deaths · 60

• 74 BCE(Julian date)
  Emperor Zhao of Han — emperor of the Han Dynasty
• 708(Julian date)
  Jacob of Edessa — Syriac Bishop of Edessa (c.640-708)
• 754(Julian date)
  Saint Boniface — 8th‑century Anglo‑Saxon bishop and missionary, Catholic saint and martyr, known as the ‘Apostle to the Germans’
• 879(Julian date)
  Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar — Safarid Dynasty Amir from 861 to 879
• 928(Julian date)
  Louis the Blind — Holy Roman Emperor from 901 to 905
• 1017(Julian date)
  Sanjō — Emperor of Japan
• 1118
  Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester — Norman nobleman (circa 1046-1118)
• 1296(Julian date)
  Edmund Crouchback — English noble (1245-1296)
• 1310
  Amalric, Lord of Tyre — Crusader nobleman
• 1316(Julian date)
  Louis X of France — King of France from 1314 to 1316
• 1400(Julian date)
  Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel — German king
• 1424(Julian date)
  Braccio da Montone — Italian noble and condottiero
• 1434(Julian date)
  Yury of Zvenigorod — Grand prince of Moscow
• 1443
  Ferdinand the Holy Prince — infante of the Kingdom of Portugal (1402–1443)
• 1445
  Leonel Power — British composer and music theoretician
• 1568(Julian date)
  Lamoral, Count of Egmont — General and statesman in Flanders (1522-1568)
• 1625
  Orlando Gibbons — English composer, virginalist and organist (1583-1625)
• 1667
  Pietro Sforza Pallavicino — Catholic cardinal (1607-1667)
• 1716
  Roger Cotes — English mathematician
• 1722
  Johann Kuhnau — German composer, organist and harpsichordist
• 1740
  Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent — British noble (1671-1740)
• 1816
  Giovanni Paisiello — Italian composer of the Classical era (1740-1816)
• 1825
  Odysseas Androutsos — key figure in the Greek War of Independence (1788–1825)
• 1826
  Carl Maria von Weber — German Romantic composer (1786–1826)
• 1866
  John McDouall Stuart — British explorer (1815-1866)