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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