Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 5
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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 -
Danfeng Gate, Daming Palace
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Environment Day; | inappropriate tone |
| Feast day of Saint Boniface (Christianity) | refimprove section |
| Father's Day in Denmark | refimprove section |
| 1257 – Kraków in Poland received city rights based on the Magdeburg law. | date not cited |
| 1305 – Raymond Bertrand de Got became Pope Clement V, succeeding Benedict XI who died one year earlier. | lead too short |
| 1798 – In the Battle of New Ross, British forces prevented the United Irishmen from spreading the Irish Rebellion into Munster. | refimprove |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1883 – The Orient Express, a train line that became synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel, began operations. | 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 |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 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
- 663 – The Daming Palace became the government seat and royal residence of the Tang empire during Emperor Gaozong's reign.
- 1899 – Filipino army general Antonio Luna was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War.
- 1956 – American singer Elvis Presley performed "Hound Dog" 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 about his involvement in a sex scandal with Christine Keeler and resigned.
- 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
- 1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., 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.
- 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.
- 1997 – Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Congo ordered the detainment of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, thus initiating a second civil war.
- 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison made landfall in southeast Texas, causing $5.5 billion in damage to make it the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
- 2004 – Noël Mamère, mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, conducted a marriage ceremony for two men, although same-sex marriage was not yet legal in France.
- Born/died: Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (d. 879) · Johann Kuhnau (d. 1722) · Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (b. 1771) · Stephen Crane (d. 1900) · Bill Moyers (b. 1934) ·
Notes
- Luc Montagnier appears on May 20, so HIV/AIDS should not appear in the same year
- Ali Khamenei is on June 4, so 1963 demonstrations in Iran should not appear in the same year.
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 is on June 4, so Tank Man should not appear in the same year.
- Six-Day War also appears on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10.
June 5: Constitution Day in Denmark; Naksa Day in Palestinian communities
- 1832 – The June Rebellion (depicted), an anti-monarchist uprising, broke out in Paris.
- 1862 – Vietnamese guerrilla leader Trương Định decided to defy Emperor Tự Đức and the Treaty of Saigon, choosing to fight on against the Europeans.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2009 – After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and indigenous people in Peru's Bagua Province.
John Couch Adams (b. 1819) · Theippan Maung Wa (b. 1899) · Kate Spade (d. 2018)