5 June
Notable Births
Chaeryeong
b. 2001
South Korean singer and dancer (born 2001)
Dave (rapper)
b. 1998
British rapper (born 1998)
Kale Clague
b. 1998
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Jaqueline Cristian
b. 1998
Romanian tennis player (born 1998)
Yulia Lipnitskaya
b. 1998
Russian figure skater (born 1998)
Sam Darnold
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Troye Sivan
b. 1995
Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1995)
Ross Wilson (table tennis)
b. 1995
British table tennis player
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
b. 1993
New Zealand and Samoa international dual-code rugby player
Emily Seebohm
b. 1992
Australian swimmer (born 1992)
Sören Bertram
b. 1991
German footballer
Ninja (gamer)
b. 1991
American streamer and YouTuber (born 1991)
Radko Gudas
b. 1990
Czech ice hockey player (born 1990)
Cam Atkinson
b. 1989
American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Megumi Nakajima
b. 1989
Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1989)
Marques Colston
b. 1983
American football player (born 1983)
Rick Riordan
b. 1964
American author (born 1964)
Jacques Demy
b. 1931
French film director (1931–1990)
John Maynard Keynes
b. 1883
British economist (1883–1946)
Pancho Villa
b. 1878
Mexican revolutionary general and politician (1878–1923)
Notable Deaths
Astrud Gilberto
d. 2023
Brazilian singer (1940–2023)
TB Joshua
d. 2021
Nigerian Christian leader (1963–2021)
Kate Spade
d. 2018
American fashion designer (1962–2018)
Cheick Tioté
d. 2017
Ivorian footballer (1986–2017)
Jerome Bruner
d. 2016
American psychologist and scholar (1915–2016)
Alan Bond
d. 2015
Australian businessman (1938–2015)
Richard Johnson (actor)
d. 2015
British actor (1927–2015)
Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi
d. 2014
Iraqi ISIL leader (1971–2014)
Reiulf Steen
d. 2014
Norwegian politician (1933–2014)
Stanisław Nagy
d. 2013
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
d. 2013
Irish republican politician and military leader (1932–2013)
Ray Bradbury
d. 2012
American writer (1920–2012)
Hal Keller
d. 2012
American baseball player (1927-2012)
Mihai Pătrașcu (computer scientist)
d. 2012
Romanian-American computer scientist
Azam Khan (singer)
d. 2011
Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, composer and freedom fighter (1950–2011)
Jeff Hanson
d. 2009
American singer-songwriter
Frederick Franck
d. 2006
Dutch painter
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser
d. 2005
Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician
Wee Chong Jin
d. 2005
Singaporean jurist (1917–2005)
Iona Brown
d. 2004
British violinist and conductor (1941–2004)
On This Day in History
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2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide.
Nintendo Switch 2
2024
The Boeing Starliner is launched on its first crewed flight, carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station.
Boeing Starliner
2022
A constitutional referendum is held in Kazakhstan following violent protests and civil unrest against the government.
2022 Kazakh constitutional referendum
2017
Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO.
Montenegro
2017
Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
Bahrain
2016
Two shootings in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kill six people.
2016 Aktobe shootings
2015
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
2015 Sabah earthquake
2012
Last transit of Venus until the year 2117.
2012 transit of Venus
2009
After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
2009 Peruvian political crisis
2009
A fire at a day-care center kills 49 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.
2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire
2006
Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Serbia
2004
Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
Noël Mamère
2003
A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region.
Heat wave
2002
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-111, carrying the Expedition 5 crew to the International Space Station to replace the Expedition 4 crew. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz becomes the second person to have flown on seven spaceflights.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
2001
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
Tropical Storm Allison
2000
The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
Six-Day War (2000)
1998
A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
Strike action
1997
The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins.
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)
1995
The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
Bose–Einstein condensate
1993
Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.
Holbeck Hall Hotel