Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 5
This is a list of selected June 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Velocity-distribution data that confirm the discovery of a new phase of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate. The two right-most images, corresponding to lower temperatures, show multiple atoms coalescing into a single macroscopic quantum state. -
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Antonio Luna -
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The Orient Express, 1883
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1798 – In the Battle of New Ross, British forces prevented the United Irishmen from spreading the Irish Rebellion into Munster. | refimprove |
| 1888 – An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook the upper Río de la Plata floor between Argentina and Uruguay. | needs more footnotes |
| 1969 – The International communist conference began in Moscow. | besides list of participants, article is stubby |
| 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. | refimprove sections |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1849 – A new constitution was introduced in Denmark, establishing a constitutional monarchy and the Rigsdagen, a bicameral parliament consisting of the Landsting and the Folketing.
- 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon was signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decided to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
- 1883 – The Orient Express (pictured), a train line that became synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel, began operations.
- 1947 – At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to war-torn Europe, outlining a recovery program that became known as the Marshall Plan.
- 1956 – American singer Elvis Presley performed "Hound Dog" to a nationwide television audience on The Milton Berle Show, an appearance that generated many letters of protest.
- 1963 – The arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for publicly denouncing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi sparked protests in Iran.
- 1963 – The British Secretary of State for War John Profumo admitted he lied to the House of Commons during enquiries about his involvement in a sex scandal and resigned.
- 1967 – The Six-Day War began with an Israeli preemptive strike that destroyed about 450 total aircraft of the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian Air Forces on the ground.
- 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles – an event that has spawned a variety of conspiracy theories.
- 1981 – The Centers for Disease Control recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia cases among homosexual men in Los Angeles, the first reported cases of AIDS.
- 1989 – An anonymous demonstrator, later dubbed "Tank Man", single-handedly stopped a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests before being dragged aside.
- 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison made landfall in southeast Texas, causing $5.5 billion in damage to make it the costliest tropical storm in US history.
- 2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and indigenous people in Peru's Bagua Province.
Notes
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 is on June 4, so Tank Man should not appear in the same year.
- Ali Khamenei is on June 4, so June 5, 1963 demonstrations in Iran should not appear in the same year (both have Khomeini in the blurb).
- Six-Day War also appears on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10.
June 5: World Environment Day; Feast day of Saint Boniface (Christianity); Father's Day and Constitution Day in Denmark; Yom Yerushalayim in Israel (2016)
- 663 – The Daming Palace (reconstructed gate pictured) became the government seat and royal residence of the Tang empire during Emperor Gaozong's reign.
- 1257 – Kraków in Poland received city rights based on the Magdeburg law.
- 1899 – Antonio Luna was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War.
- 1941 – Second Sino-Japanese War: During one sortie in a five-year bombing campaign on Chongqing, 4,000 people died of asphyxiation when the tunnel they were hiding in became blocked.
- 1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, US, collapsed as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.