📜 This Day in History

June 5

• 663The Daming Palace in Chang'an became the seat of government and the royal residence of the Tang dynasty during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
• 1832The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising, broke out in Paris.
• 1941Second Sino-Japanese War: About 4,000 people died of asphyxiation in Chongqing when the tunnel in which they were hiding became blocked during a raid in the five-year bombing campaign.
• 1967Following Israel's initiation of Operation Focus with the goal to neutralise the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force, and the Royal Jordanian Air Force, the Six-Day War begins.
• 1997Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo ordered the detention of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, initiating a second civil war.
• 2009After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and indigenous people in Bagua province, Peru.

Born on this day

• 1883John Maynard Keynes, English economist, philosopher, and academic (died 1946)
• 1898Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (died 1936)
• 1900Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
• 1971Mark Wahlberg, American model, actor, producer, and rapper