June
5
World
Environment Day
World Environment Day (WED) is a day that
stimulates awareness of the environment and
enhances political attention and public action.
It is on 5 June. It was the day that United
Nations Conference on the Human Environment
began. The United Nations Conference on the
Human Environment was from 5–16 June 1972.
It was established by the United Nations General
Assembly in 1972.[1] The first World Environment
Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is
hosted every year by a different city with
a different theme and is commemorated with
an international exposition in the week of
5 June. World Environment Day is in spring
in the Northern Hemisphere and fall in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Events
June 5
70
– Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle
wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1257 – Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger
of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon,
captures Charles of Salermo.
1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt
to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster
is defeated.
1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the
Frontenac, is launched.
1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave
ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris
in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of
Louis-Philippe.
1837 – Houston, Texas is incorporated by the
Republic of Texas.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery
serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the
Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National
Era abolitionist newspaper.
1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed,
ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France,
the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to
defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on
against the Europeans.
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.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient
Express departs Paris.
1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes
place.
1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take
Pretoria.
1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to
allow women's suffrage.
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in
the United States as "Army registration
day".
1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United
States' use of the gold standard by enacting
a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying
the right of creditors to demand payment in
gold.
1941 – Four thousand Chongqing residents are
asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing
of Chongqing.
1942 – World War II: United States declares
war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
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 – The Allied Control Council, the military
occupation governing body of Germany, formally
takes power.
1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago,
Illinois kills 61 people.
1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard
University, United States Secretary of State
George Marshall calls for economic aid to
war-torn Europe.
1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the
first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single,
"Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle
Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive
hip movements.
1959 – The first government of the State of
Singapore is sworn in.
1963 – British Secretary of State for War
John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known
as the Profumo Affair.
1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against
arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah
of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several
cities, masses of angry demonstrators are
confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air
force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks
on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1968 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert
F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian
Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 – The International communist conference
begins in Moscow.
1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first
time since the Six-Day War.
1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first
country-wide referendum, on remaining in the
European Economic Community (EEC).
1976 – Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho,
United States.
1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal
computers, goes on sale.
1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention report that five people in
Los Angeles, California have a rare form of
pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened
immune systems, in what turns out to be the
first recognized cases of AIDS.
1984 – Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the
holiest site of the Sikh religion.
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.
1993 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel
in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England,
fall into the sea following a landslide.
1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first
created.
1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors
parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly
spreads to five other assembly plants (the
strike lasted seven weeks).
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 caused $5.5 billion in
damages, making Allison the costliest tropical
storm in U.S. history.
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan
and India reaches its peak, as temperatures
exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
2006 – Serbia declares independence from the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Holidays
and observances
Arbor
Day (New Zealand)
Christian Feast Day:
Boniface (Roman Catholic Church)
June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day and Father's Day (Denmark)
Feast of Núr, the first day of the fifth month
of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)
Khordad Movement Anniversary (Iran)
Liberation Day (Seychelles)
President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
World Environment Day (International)
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