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What happened in history on this day: June 5?
On June 5 in ...
- 1794 - US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces.
- 1805 - First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois).
- 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin begins a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1863 - CSS Alabama captures the Tailsman in the Mid Atlantic.
- 1864 - General William E "Grumble" Jones is killed at Piedmont.
- 1864 - The chief clerk of US loans discovers 100 $1000 bonds are missing from the US Treasury.
- 1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens.
- 1876 - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1912 - US marines invade Cuba (third time).
- 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1917 - Ten million American men begin registering for draft for war duty.
- 1940 - First synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio, USA.
- 1942 - Elwood Ordnance Plant explosion near Joliet, Illinois, USA kills 54.
- 1944 - First B-29 bombing raid; one plane lost due to engine failure.
- 1945 - The European Advisory Committee announces the unconditional political capitulation of Germany. Control of the country is divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
- 1946 - Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois, USA).
- 1947 - American Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Marshall announces the European Recovery Program, known as the Marshall Plan.
- 1950 - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation.
- 1956 - US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery (Alabama) buses anti-Constitutional.
- 1957 - New York narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes.
- 1968 - US Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot by one or more assassins in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Five others are wounded. One shooter is identified as Sirhan Sirhan. Security guard Thane Eugene Cesar may have shot Kennedy from the rear.
- 1968 - USS Scorpion nuclear-power submarine, last heard from 50 miles south of Azores, is declared presumed lost with 99 crew.
- 1969 - Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 1976 - Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die).
- 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
- 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 (the first recognized cases of AIDS).
- 1993 - In Minnesota, a magnitude 4.1 earthquake occurs.
- 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors Corporation parts factory in Flint, Michigan.
- 2001 - (to June 9) Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain. Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the Texas Medical Center, which loses years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds US$5 billion.
- 2001 - U.S. 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.
- 2008 - Verizon Wireless announces it will buy mobile phone service provider Alltel for US$28.1 billion.
- 2013 - The Guardian newspaper begins reporting on the US NSA document leak provided by Edward Snowden.
Births on June 5
- 1823 - Birth of George Thorndike Angell in Massachusetts, USA; lawyer (ASPCA).
- 1825 - Birth of Jabez Lamar Monroe in Curry, Georgia, USA; educator (Republican-Alabama, 1857-61).
- 1895 - Birth of William Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, USA; actor (Hopalong Cassidy in movies, on radio, and on TV).
- 1905 - Birth of Arthur Donovan AKA Art Donovan in Bronx, New York, USA; NFL defensive tackle (Baltimore Colts, New York Yanks, Dallas Texans), author (Fatso).
- 1914 - Birth of Stan Jones in Douglas, Arizona, USA; actor (Sheriff of Cochise).
- 1923 - Birth of Daniel Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; composer ("Signs of Zodiac").
- 1925 - Birth of Bill Hayes in Harvey, Illinois, USA; actor/singer (Your Show of Shows, Days of Our Lives).
- 1925 - Birth of Dorothy Claire in LaPorte, Indiana, USA; singer (Winchell and Mahoney).
- 1926 - Birth of Bill Hayes in Illinois, USA; actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of Our Lives).
- 1928 - Birth of Robert Lansing in San Diego, California, USA; actor (General George Custer - Branded, General Frank Savage - Twelve O'Clock High, Peter Murphy/Mark Wainwright - The Man Who Never Was, Control - The Equalizer, Paul Blaisdell - Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Automan).
- 1934 - Birth of Bill D Moyers in Hugo, Oklahoma, USA; news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal).
- 1937 - Birth of Waylon Jennings in Littlefield, Texas, USA; country singer/songwriter (recorded 60 albums, had 16 No. 1 country singles, inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001, narrated and sang the theme song for the TV series Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1945 - Birth of Don Reid in Virginia, USA; country singer (Statler Bros - "Flowers on the Wall").
- 1971 - Birth of Mark Wahlberg AKA Marky Mark in Massachusetts, USA; actor-singer-producer (Entourage).
- 1974 - Birth of Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California; actor (David - Our House, My two Dads, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman).
Deaths on June 5
- 1864 - General William E "Grumble" Jones is killed at Piedmont.
- 1971 - Longevity guru Jerome Rodale dies during the taping of the Dick Cavett Show at age 72.
- 1988 - Clarence M Pendleton, US chairman of committee on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies.
- 1993 - Death of Conway Twitty at age 59 of a ruptured stomach vessel in Branson, Missouri, USA; country singer (39 No. 1 Billboard country hits).
- 2002 - Death of Dee Dee Ramone at age 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA; bass player (The Ramones).
- 2004 - Death of Ronald Reagan of Alzheimer's at age 93; actor, TV host (Death Valley Days, GE Theatre), 40th US President).
- 2016 - Death of Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (born 1915).
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