June 5

June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
• 1798 - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
• 1829 - The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
• 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
• 1941 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
• 1944 - 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.
• 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
• 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
• 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 2007 - Transfer of main Military Power site to www.military-power.net

Births

• 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

Deaths

• 1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
• 1916 - Lord Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)

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