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Brothers Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier
launch the world's first sustained flight from the town square of Annonay,
when their hot air balloon named Seraphina, called a "globe aerostatique,"
takes off into the sky, flying an estimated 460 metres high and 2300 metres
across country for about ten minutes, when it landed gently in a vineyard;
Seraphina was a 12 metre envelope made of wrapping fabric lined with paper,
with multiple sections held together by some 2,000 buttons; thinking that
smoke rather than hot air caused a balloon to rise, the brothers burned a
foul smelling mixture of wet straw and chopped wool. The brothers came up
with the idea after noticing how pieces of paper went up a chimney with a
fire in the hearth; they filled a small taffeta sock with smoke and watched
it float to the ceiling. Their first flight with passengers - a duck, a
rooster and a sheep - took place in the gardens of Versailles on Sept. 19,
and on Nov. 21, 1783, Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the
first manned flight, watched by the entire population of Paris.
06 05 June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining..
0070 06 05 Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
0535 06 05 Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople. dies
0754 06 05 Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions
1288 06 05 Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I
1305 06 05 Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V
1316 06 05 King Louis X of France. dies
1507 06 05 England & Netherlands sign trade agreement
1625 06 05 Spanish troops under Spanola conquer Breda
1632 06 05 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond
1661 06 05 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1716 06 05 England & Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty
1741 06 05 Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska.
1752 06 05 Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning).
1752 06 05 Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1794 06 05 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
1805 06 05 First recorded tornado in Tornado Alley (Southern Illinois)
1806 06 05 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1806 06 05 First trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
1808 06 05 Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians; to June 6
1817 06 05 First Great Lakes steamer launched.
1827 06 05 Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independ
1829 06 05 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1833 06 05 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
1837 06 05 Houston, Texas is granted a city charter.
1846 06 05 Telegraph line opens between Philadelphie & Baltimore.
1848 06 05 Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled
1849 06 05 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution; Danish National Day.
1855 06 05 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention
1857 06 05 Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta)
1861 06 05 Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE
1863 06 05 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
1863 06 05 CSS Alabama captures Tailsman in Mid Atlantic
1864 06 05 American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City).
1869 06 05 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04¬
1870 06 05 Constantinople in fire; 900 die
1872 06 05 Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
1873 06 05 Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
1875 06 05 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
1876 06 05 Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
1879 06 05 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
1882 06 05 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
1884 06 05 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected".
1886 06 05 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41
1888 06 05 Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president
1895 06 05 Nicholas Flood Davin's motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canadian House of Commons.
1899 06 05 Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
1900 06 05 Boer War: Lord Roberts' British army takes Pretoria, South Africa.
1900 06 05 Stephen Crane, author. dies
1907 06 05 Automatic washer & dryer are introduced
1910 06 05 O. Henry, author. dies
1911 06 05 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
1912 06 05 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
1913 06 05 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1915 06 05 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
1916 06 05 Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, Field Marshal. dies
1916 06 05 Louis Brandeis becomes Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1916 06 05 Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
1917 06 05 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States; 10 million US men begin registering for draft.
1920 06 05 A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
1920 06 05 First rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell, San Francisco.
1920 06 05 Rhoda Broughton, author. dies
1921 06 05 Georges Feydeau, French playwright. dies
1925 06 05 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1926 06 05 Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
1927 06 05 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
1927 06 05 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
1929 06 05 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour govt in Britain
1930 06 05 Pascin, the Prince of Montparnasse. dies
1931 06 05 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
1933 06 05 Gold standard abolished
1934 06 05 First formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1937 06 05 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
1937 06 05 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 06 05 American Negro Theater organizes
1940 06 05 Battle of France begins in WW II
1940 06 05 Canadian Cabinet declares Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal and jails leaders.
1940 06 05 Goodyear exhibits first synthetic rubber tire, Akron Ohio
1940 06 05 Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
1940 06 05 General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
1940 06 05 Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
1940 06 05 Netherlands rations petroleum
1941 06 05 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. dies
1941 06 05 Sandor Szabo beats Bronko Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion.
1942 06 05 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
1942 06 05 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
1942 06 05 Samuel Adams, naval officer. dies
1942 06 05 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
1943 06 05 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
1943 06 05 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
1944 06 05 Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation
1944 06 05 First B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1944 06 05 First British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
1944 06 05 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1944 06 05 King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto
1944 06 05 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.
1944 06 05 World War II: Rome falls to the Allies. It is the first capital of an Axis nation to fall.
1945 06 05 Opera Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten, premieres in London
1945 06 05 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1946 06 05 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago Ill)
1947 06 05 United States Secretary of State George C Marshall outlines Marshall Plan; calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1948 06 05 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
1950 06 05 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1952 06 05 First sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing
1952 06 05 Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for hw boxing title
1952 06 05 Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley
1953 06 05 Denmark adopts a new constitution
1953 06 05 US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN
1954 06 05 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos
1954 06 05 Your Show Of Shows, last airs on NBC-TV
1955 06 05 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1955 06 05 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1956 06 05 Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const
1956 06 05 Milton Berle Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1957 06 05 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
1959 06 05 Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minn
1959 06 05 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1960 06 05 George Gobel Show, last airs on CBS-TV
1960 06 05 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1963 06 05 British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
1963 06 05 Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
1963 06 05 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1964 06 05 Davie Jones & King Bees debut I Can't Help Thinking About Me, group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
1965 06 05 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6
1965 06 05 L´pez Arellano becomes president of Honduras
1965 06 05 Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2
1966 06 05 Cincinatti Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1966 06 05 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
1967 06 05 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1967 06 05 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair
1967 06 05 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10¢ & 25¢ coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
1967 06 05 Six-Day War: Israeli air force launches simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
1967 06 05 WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 06 05 Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan at 12:16AM PST. He dies the next day.
1969 06 05 Dutch Antilles govt of Kroon resigns
1969 06 05 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
1970 06 05 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1971 06 05 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6
1972 06 05 If You Had Wings opens
1972 06 05 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
1972 06 05 Yugoslav president Tito visits USSR
1973 06 05 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60)
1974 06 05 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit
1975 06 05 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
1975 06 05 British population agrees to European Common Market membership
1975 06 05 Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1975 06 05 Paul Keres, chess player. dies
1975 06 05 Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1976 06 05 108th Belmont: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29
1976 06 05 Bigfoot by Bro Smith hits #57
1976 06 05 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
1977 06 05 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Phila 76er, 4 games to 2
1977 06 05 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
1977 06 05 Coup takes place in Seychelles (National Day).
1977 06 05 Steve Jobs' Apple II goes on sale; first personal computer.
1977 06 05 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament
1977 06 05 LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24
1979 06 05 Seychelles adopts constitution
1980 06 05 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 06 05 Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)
1981 06 05 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)
1981 06 05 George Harrison releases Somewhere in England
1981 06 05 TODAY/PC runs for first time
1982 06 05 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
1982 06 05 52nd French Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger (76 61)
1982 06 05 Murphy's Law by Cheri hits #39
1982 06 05 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
1983 06 05 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy & Cats win
1983 06 05 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76)
1983 06 05 Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1984 06 05 Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time becomes #1
1984 06 05 President of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh holy spot.
1986 06 05 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for first time
1987 06 05 Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & allows wins game
1987 06 05 Nightline presents it's first Town Meeting the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM
1988 06 05 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61)
1988 06 05 First Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
1988 06 05 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as first woman to circle globe alone
1988 06 05 Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1988 06 05 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
1988 06 05 Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1989 06 05 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
1989 06 05 Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
1989 06 05 Paul McCartney releases Flowers in the Dirt
1989 06 05 Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Mil Brewers win 5-3
1990 06 05 S African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling
1991 06 05 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 06 05 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1991 06 05 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
1993 06 05 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
1993 06 05 63rd French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (46 62 64)
1993 06 05 Conway Twitty, country musician. dies
1993 06 05 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993 06 05 Livin' On The Edge by Aerosmith hits #18
1993 06 05 Singer Mariah Carey weds Tommy Mottola, CEO (Sony Music)
1993 06 05 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistanis.
1994 06 05 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61)
1994 06 05 64th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64)
1994 06 05 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1994 06 05 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1994 06 05 Gray's Anatomy opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances
1995 06 05 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire
1995 06 05 Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1996 06 05 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis TN on WMFS 92.9 FM
1998 06 05 Jeanette Nolan, actress. dies
1998 06 05 Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California. dies
1999 06 05 131st Belmont
1999 06 05 Mel Tormé, singer, composer, actor. dies
2001 06 05 Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party.
2002 06 05 Dee Dee Ramone, musician (The Ramones). dies
2002 06 05 Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.
2002 06 05 Mozilla 1.0 Web browser, the first 'official' version, is released..
2003 06 05 JŸrgen Möllemann, German politician dies
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