June 5 in history
Events on June 5
Notable events that happened on June 5 in past years.
- 2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide.
Wikipedia article: Nintendo Switch 2 - 2016
Two shootings in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kill six people.
Wikipedia article: 2016 Aktobe shootings - 2004
Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
Wikipedia article: Noël Mamère - 1998
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.
Wikipedia article: Strike action - 1989
The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Wikipedia article: Tank Man - 1975
The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
Wikipedia article: Suez Canal - 1963
The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
Wikipedia article: Secretary of State for War - 1949
Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
Wikipedia article: Thailand - 1942
World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
Wikipedia article: Kingdom of Bulgaria - 1916
World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
Wikipedia article: World War I - 1883
The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.[citation needed]
Wikipedia article: Orient Express - 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.
Wikipedia article: Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1817
The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
Wikipedia article: Great Lakes - 1305
Election of Pope Clement V following the death of Pope Benedict XI in the previous year.
- 830
Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia. She is credited with restoring Christian orthodoxy and icons.
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