Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 5
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June 5: World Environment Day; Father's Day and Constitution Day in Denmark
- 1305 – Raymond Bertrand de Got became Pope Clement V, succeeding Pope Benedict XI who died one year earlier.
- 1832 – The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising of students, broke out in Paris.
- 1967 – The Six-Day War began with an Israeli Air Force preemptive strike that destroyed about 450 total aircraft of the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian Air Forces on the ground.
- 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (pictured) inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, an event that has spawned a variety of conspiracy theories.
- 1995 – A new phase of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate, was produced for the first time by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST-JILA lab.