June 5

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[edit] Events

• 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
• 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
• 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
• 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 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.
• 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
• 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, 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 - International communist conference begins in Moscow.
• 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.
• 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro

[edit] Births

• 469 B.C - Socrates, Greek philosopher
• 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
• 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
• 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
• 1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
• 1934 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
• 1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor

[edit] Deaths

• 1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
• 2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)