Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 5
June 5: World Environment Day; Father's Day and Constitution Day in Denmark.
- 1305 - Bertrand de Goth became Pope Clement V.
- 1798 - In the Battle of New Ross, British forces prevented the United Irishmen from spreading the Irish Rebellion into Munster.
- 1849 - Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.
- 1947 - At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to war-torn Europe, outlining a recovery program that became known as the Marshall Plan.
- 1967 - The Six-Day War began with an Israeli Air Force attack on Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1968 - Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
- 1995 - A new phase of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate (unique velocity distribution pictured) was produced for the first time.