June 05

Saturday 05, 2004:

Smarty Jones loses at the Belmont Stakes to Birdstone and fails to bid the Triple Crown.

Wednesday 05, 2002:

2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.

Tuesday 05, 2001:

Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party.

Friday 05, 1998:

Both Reuters and ABC news erroneously report the death of comedian Bob Hope after Arizona congressman Bob Stump announces the demise of Hope on the floor of the US Congress.

Monday 05, 1995:

Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

Wednesday 05, 1991:

Colo-Colo becomes the first Chilean soccer team to win the Copa Libertadores de América.

Monday 05, 1989:

The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Friday 05, 1987:

Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special four-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.

Thursday 05, 1986:

A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.

Tuesday 05, 1984:

Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh relgion.

Friday 05, 1981:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).

Sunday 05, 1977:

The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.

Saturday 05, 1976:

Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.

Thursday 05, 1975:

The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC

Friday 05, 1970:

Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Wednesday 05, 1968:

U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. (He dies on June 6).

Monday 05, 1967:

Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

Wednesday 05, 1963:

British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.

Friday 05, 1959:

The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

Tuesday 05, 1956:

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

Saturday 05, 1954:

The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.

Thursday 05, 1947:

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

Wednesday 05, 1946:

A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.

Tuesday 05, 1945:

Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

Monday 05, 1944:

World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

Monday 05, 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.

Thursday 05, 1924:

Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).

Tuesday 05, 1917:

World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."

Monday 05, 1916:

Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Saturday 05, 1915:

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

Wednesday 05, 1907:

BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.

Tuesday 05, 1900:

Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

Tuesday 05, 1866:

Calculations indicate Pluto reached its most recent aphelion (furthest point from Sun) on this day. The next aphelion will occur in August 2113.

Sunday 05, 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.

Thursday 05, 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.

Tuesday 05, 1849:

Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.

Monday 05, 1837:

Houston, Texas, is granted a city charter.

Friday 05, 1829:

HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

Thursday 05, 1817:

First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.

Tuesday 05, 1798:

Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.

Thursday 05, 1783:

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

Friday 05, 1305:

Pope Clement V is elected.

Thursday 05, 70:

Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.

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