What are the important events that happened on June 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 5 is the 156th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 23, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 485,856 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontahexagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 257 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,549 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 5 Historical Events
- 1817 –The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
- 1829 –HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1849 –Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 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.
- 1888 –The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- 1949 –Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
- 1964 –DSV Alvin is commissioned.
- 1968 –U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
Who were born on June 5?
- 1877 –Willard Miller, American sailor (d. 1959)
- 1899 –Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)
- 1950 –Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990)
- 1971 –Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
- 1975 –Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1976 –Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player
- 1977 –Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
- 1980 –Brandi Shearer, American musician
- 1982 –Baron Geisler, Filipino actor
- 1992 –Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
Who died on June 5?
- 1296 –Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
- 1722 –Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
- 1816 –Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
- 1819 –Bodawpaya, King of Burma (b. 1745)
- 1825 –Odysseas Androutsos, national hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
- 1826 –Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1993 –Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
- 1998 –Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
- 2002 –Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
- 2004 –Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
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