History Events on June 05

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

#Cold_War

The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".

#Secretary_of_State_for_War

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

#Denmark

The elderly Anglo-Saxon missionary, Boniface, and more than fifty other Christians, are killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia.

#Missionary

Montenegro becomes the 29th member of the NATO.

#Montenegro

Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.

#Kraków

A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.

#2013_Philadelphia_building_collapse

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

#Conscription

Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.

#Thailand

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.

#Harriet_Beecher_Stowe

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

#Allied_Control_Council

The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.

#Suez_Canal

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

#Constitution_of_Denmark

The first government of Singapore is sworn in.

#Singapore

Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.

#Noël_Mamère

An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.

#2015_Sabah_earthquake

American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

#American_Civil_War

Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.

#Holbeck_Hall_Hotel

Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.

#Barghash_bin_Said_of_Zanzibar

DSV Alvin is commissioned.

#DSV_Alvin

Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.

#Louis_Brandeis

The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.

#Great_Lakes

World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.

#World_War_I

The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

#Morbidity_and_Mortality_Weekly_Report

A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region.

#Heat_wave

The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.

#Teton_Dam

Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.

#Bahrain

The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

#Lizzie_Borden

Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.

#Tropical_Storm_Allison

The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

#Tethys'_Festival

Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

#Houston

A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.

#Strike_action

Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

#Second_Boer_War

World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.

#Kingdom_of_Bulgaria

More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.

#Aleksandr_Suvorov_(ship)

Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

#Serbia

The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.

#1888_Río_de_la_Plata_earthquake

The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).

#1975_United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_referendum

World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").

#World_War_II

World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

#Nazi_Germany

The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

#Bose-Einstein_condensate

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

#Robert_F._Kennedy

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

#Elvis_Presley

The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.

#June_Rebellion

The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.

#Six-Day_War_(2000)

Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.

#Battle_of_the_Gulf_of_Naples

The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more important victors.

#Battle_of_Worringen

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

#La_Salle_Hotel

World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

#Chongqing

The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.

#Orient_Express

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.

#United_States_Congress

The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.

#Six-Day_War

After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.

The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins.

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

Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.

As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Tr??ng ??nh decides to defy Emperor T? ??c of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.

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

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