This Day in History for 5th June

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 191

70 - Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
754 - Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions
1257 - Kraków, Poland receive city rights.
1288 - Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I
1305 - Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V
1507 - England & Netherlands sign trade agreement
1625 - Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond
1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1716 - England & Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty
1752 - Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1783 - Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
1794 - Congress prohibits citizens 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
1808 - -6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians
1827 - Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independ
Physicist & Mathematician Isaac Newton 1829 - The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1833 - Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1846 - Telegraph line opens between Phila & Balt
1848 - Statue of prince Willem the Silent 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 & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta)
1861 - Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE
1863 - Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
1863 - CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic
1864 - Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City)
1869 - 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
1870 - Constantinople in fire; 900 die
1872 - Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
1873 - Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
Inventor Charles Babbage 1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
1876 - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
1879 - 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard 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 - Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president
1888 - The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
1899 - Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
1900 - Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria
1907 - Automatic washer & dryer are introduced
1911 - Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
1912 - US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
1913 - Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1915 - 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
US President Grover Cleveland 1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1917 - 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1920 - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
1920 - A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
1925 - 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1926 - Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
1927 - 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
1929 - Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
1931 - Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
1933 - Gold standard abolished
1934 - 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1937 - 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
1937 - Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 1940 - American Negro Theater organizes
1940 - Battle of France begins in WW II
1940 - Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
1940 - General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
1940 - Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
1940 - Netherlands rations petroleum
1940 - Synthetic rubber tire unveiled
1941 - Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1942 - British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
1942 - Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
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
1944 - 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1944 - 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
1944 - Allies march into Rome
1944 - Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation
1944 - General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1944 - King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto
1945 - Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London
1945 - USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1946 - Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago Ill)
Military Leader George Marshall 1947 - Sec of State George C Marshall outlines "Marshall Plan"
1948 - Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
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
1952 - Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavy weight boxing title
1953 - Denmark adopts a new constitution
1953 - US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN
1954 - "Your Show Of Shows," last airs on NBC-TV
1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1955 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1956 - "Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 242

1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1523 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1554 - Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592)
1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
1664 - Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703)
1665 - Nicolas Bernier, composer
1686 - Cristoph Raupach, composer
1695 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1723 - Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
1736 - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp
1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1759 - Theodor Zwetler, composer
1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)
1771 - Ernst Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland/King of Hanover (1837-51)
1771 - Willem F, count of Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
1798 - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
1813 - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
1819 - John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune)
1823 - George Thorndike Angell, Mass, lawyer (ASPCA)
1825 - Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61)
1826 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
1827 - Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911)
1863 - Arthur Somervell, composer
1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
1874 - Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904)
1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1877 - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45)
1878 - Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)
1878 - [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader
1879 - Adolf Wiklund, composer
1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
1879 - René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist
1884 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
1885 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940)
1887 - Ruth Benedict, New York City, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
1888 - Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen)
1892 - Alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington)
1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
1895 - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
1898 - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding)
1900 - Barbara Gooden, novelist
1900 - Dennis Gabor, inventor (holography (3D laser photography)) [or Jan 5]
1901 - Anastasia N Romanova, great ruler of Russia/daughter of last tsar
1902 - Hugo Huppert, writer
1905 - Art Donovan, NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas)
1905 - John Abbott, London, actor (Smogasboard)
1906 - Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
1906 - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
1906 - Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
1907 - Rolf Bongs, writer
1907 - Rudolf Peieris, physicist
1908 - Jack Jacob, senior master (British Supreme Court)
1909 - Alfred Uhl, composer
1911 - Arthur Vick, vice chancelor (Queens University, Belfast)
1911 - Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO (ASH)
1912 - Eric Hollies, cricketer (England leggie, bowled Bradman)
1912 - Josef Neckermann, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968)
1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
1913 - Friedrich Wildgans, composer
1914 - Beatrice de Cardi, archaeoligist
1914 - Rose Hill, singer/actress (Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark)
1914 - Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1915 - Alfred Kazin, US writer/literature critic (Inmost Leaf)
1915 - Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1916 - Eddie Joost, baseball player
1916 - Jack Sutherland, journalist
1916 - Syd Barnes, cricketer (Australian batsmen of 30's/40's)
1917 - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter
1918 - Branimir Sakac, composer
1919 - Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68)
1919 - Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator
1920 - Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (Italians: Face of a Nation)
1920 - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1920 - Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
1921 - Lancelot Pierre, cricketer (1 Test WI v England 1948, 0-28)
1923 - Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac)
1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
1924 - Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/orientalist
1925 - Bill Hayes, Harvey Ill, actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life)
1925 - Dorothy Claire, LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney)
1925 - William L Dickinson, (Rep-R-AL, 1965- )
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1928 - Otto V Walter, writer
1928 - Robert Lansing, SD California, actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan)
1928 - Tony Richardson, England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH)
1930 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov, composer
1930 - Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University)
1930 - Roger W Suddards, solicitor

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1974 - "Sly and the Family Stone" frontman Sly Stone (31) weds model-actress Kathy Silva at Madison Square Garden
1993 - Singer Mariah Carey weds Tommy Mottola, CEO (Sony Music)
1997 - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher (30) weds Meg Mathews at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas
1999 - Actress Reese Witherspoon (23) weds actor Ryan Phillippe (24) at the Old Wide Awake Plantation along the Sono River in Charleston, South Carolina
1999 - 1994 Figure Skater World Champion Yuka Sato (26) weds her fellor skater Jason Dungjen
1999 - Baritone belter Frankie Laine (86) weds retired real estate agent Marcia Kline (61) near San Diego
2004 - Actress Jennifer Lopez (43) weds salsa artist Marc Anthony (42) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - "All My Children" cast members Alexa Havins (24) weds actor Justin Bruening (25) in a seaside ceremony held on Cinnamon Bay on the island of St. John
2010 - "Bond girl" actress Gemma Arterton (24) weds Stefano Catelli (37) at a secret ceremony at the hilltop village of Zuheros in Andalucia, Spain

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

2009 - "Lost" actress Emilie de Ravin (27) divorces actor Josh Janowicz (27) after three years of marriage
2012 - NBC musical drama series "Smash" actress Debra Messing (43) divorces actor and producer Daniel Zelman (44) by their mutual decision after 10 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 98 of 98

535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
754 - Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79
754 - Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered
1017 - Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1288 - Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1443 - Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 - Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded
1568 - Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1568 - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41
1667 - Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1722 - Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1785 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1826 - Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1852 - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1861 - John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
1861 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
1864 - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 39
1866 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
1868 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73
1880 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52
1885 - Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80
1894 - Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
Novelist Stephen Crane (1900) 1900 - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1908 - Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1915 - Brzeska, sculptor, dies
1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1923 - George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
1927 - Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
1930 - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
1932 - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies
1939 - Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies
US President Abraham Lincoln (1902) 1939 - Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1944 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
1953 - Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65
1953 - William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76
1966 - Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
1967 - Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72
1970 - "Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 - Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
1973 - Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 - Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101
1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1977 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74
1978 - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71
1979 - Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
1980 - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
1981 - Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies
1984 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
1988 - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1990 - J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy, dies
1990 - Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1992 - Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl), dies at 83
1992 - Max Lerner, US writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
1993 - Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59
1994 - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn A Bogue], cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
1994 - Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
1995 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75
1996 - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59
1996 - Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78
1997 - J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan (2004) 2004 - Ronald Reagan, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California, and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
2009 - Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
2009 - Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
2012 - Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91
2012 - Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81