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2014 The Indian state of Telangana was officially formed, with K
2025 Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (pict…
1998 Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role …
1899 Antonio Luna, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, wa…
2021 A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian …
1975 The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier…
1776 American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Con…
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
Antonio Luna, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, was assassinated in the midst of the Philippine–American War.
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released in most regions on June 5, 2025. Like the original Nintendo Switch, it can be used as a handheld, …
The Nintendo Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide
The Boeing Starliner is a spacecraft designed to transport crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth-orbit destinations. Under development by Boei…
The Boeing Starliner is launched on its first crewed flight, carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to th
A constitutional referendum, locally called the republican referendum, was held in Kazakhstan on 5 June 2022. It was the third referendum since Kazakhstan's independence in 1991, …
A constitutional referendum is held in Kazakhstan following violent protests and civil unrest against the government
Montenegro is a country in Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Its 25 municipalities have a total population of 633,158 people in an area of 13,883 km2. It is bordered by S…
Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO
Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated near the western shore of the Persian Gulf and latitudinally about two-thirds the shore's l…
Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qat
The 2016 Aktobe shootings were a series of shootings on civilian and military targets in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, in June 2016. On 5 June, two attacks occurred at gun stores, while a t…
Two shootings in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kill six people
The 2015 Sabah earthquake struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia with a moment magnitude of 6.0 on 5 June, which lasted for 30 seconds. The earthquake was the strongest to affect Malaysia …
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6
The 2012 transit of Venus, when the planet Venus appeared as a small, dark spot passing across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and finished at 04:49 UTC on…
Last transit of Venus until the year 2117
The 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon by local Indigenous peoples; they protested Petroperú and confron…
After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indig
The ABC Day Care Center Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, took place on Friday, June 5, 2009 and resulted in 49 deaths. Thirty five children died that day, with the death toll s…
A fire at a day-care center kills 49 people in Hermosillo, Mexico
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it is bordered by Hungary in the north, Romania in the …
Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
Noël Mamère is a French journalist and former politician. He was the mayor of Bègles in Gironde from 1989 to 2017, as well as deputy to the French National Assembly for Gironde's …
Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France
A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather and natural disaster that lasts for multiple days. A heat wave is usually measu…
A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region
Space Shuttle Endeavour is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May …
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-111, carrying the Expedition 5 crew to the International Space Station to replac
Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical cyclone that devastated southeast Texas in June 2001. An arguable example of the "brown ocean effect", Allison lasted unusually long for a Ju…
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of
The Six-Day War was a series of armed confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan forces around the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 5 to 10 June 2000…
The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan f
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually t…
A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plan
The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, also known as the Second Brazzaville-Congolese Civil War, was the second of two ethnopolitical civil conflicts in the Republic of the C…
The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins
In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures ve…
The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created
The Holbeck Hall Hotel was a clifftop hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, owned by the Turner family. It was built in 1879 by George Alderson Smith as a private reside…
Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide
