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Notable anniversaries in history for today: June 5
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Bill D Moyers in Hugo, Oklahoma, USA; news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal).
- 80th: 1944 - First B-29 bombing raid; one plane lost due to engine failure.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Tommie Smith; American sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968), gave black power salute.
- 80th: 1944 - (evening) 1047 British bombers drop over 5,000 tons of bombs on French coastal batteries. This is the heaviest bombing of any night to date. Nine of ten main batteries are knocked out by a combination of American and British air and naval bombardment.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Nancy Stafford; actress (Matlock, The Doctors).
- 70th: 1954 - NBC airs the last Your Show of Shows TV show.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Mags; rocker (Fuzzbox - "Into Rescue").
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California; actor (David - Our House, My two Dads, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of P-nut; bassist (311).
- 40th: 1984 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar.
- 30th: 1994 - In Taiwan, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.
- 30th: 1994 - Greek cargo ship Sea Transporter runs aground in a cyclone off Aguada, India, spilling 815,500 litres of oil.
- 25th: 1999 - The Islamic Salvation Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Mel Torme at age 73; singer and songwriter ("The Christmas Song").
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Ronald Reagan of Alzheimer's at age 93; actor, TV host (Death Valley Days, GE Theatre), 40th US President).
- 15th: 2009 - A fast-moving fire kills 41 children in the ABC Daycare centre in Hermosillo, northern Mexico.
- 10th: 2014 - A Sunni militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
- 5th: 2019 - (to June 8) Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to Russia, where he also attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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