TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Monday, June 5, the 156th day of 2017. There are 209 days left in the year.
AD70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem. 754 Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia. 1257 Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. 1625 The city of Breda surrenders to the Spanish tercios under general Ambrosio Spinola. 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 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. 1883 The first regularly scheduled Orient
Express departs from
Paris. 1888 The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place. 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage. 1916 The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out. 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”. 1941 World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are a sphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. 1944 World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tonnes 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 takes power. 1949 Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament. 1956 Elvis Presley introduces his new single,
Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalising the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 1959 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. 1968 Robert F. Kennedy, a US presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. 1975 The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. 1984 The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. 1989 The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.