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1774 - Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1894 – Railway Bitola – Thessaloniki put in traffic.
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1935 - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
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1099 - First Crusaders arrived in Jerusalem
1340 - The city of Rotterdam was founded
1692 - An earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, 3 000 victims
1769 - Daniel Boone begins to explore the territory of the state of Kentucky
1800 - David Thompson arrives at the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1862 - The United States and Britain agree to stop the slave trade.
1864 - Abraham Lincoln is renowned for president of the United States.
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1436 – Was born Johannes Muller, a German astronomer.
1772 - Haitian researcher Jean Baptiste settles Chicago.
1809 - Sweden declares independence.
1859 - Queensland (Australia) is declared as independent colony - DAY OF QUEENSLAND.
1966 - Space shuttle Gemini 9 completes 45 turns around orbit.
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1257 - Krakow (Poland) becomes a city.
1799 - Natural scientists Alexander von Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland sail from A Coruña and begin a five-year expedition through Latin America.
1805 - First registered tornado in "Tornado Alley" (southern Illinois).
1806 - The Republic of Batavian becomes the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1849 - NATIONAL DAY OF DENMARK - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1873 - Sultan Bargash abolishes the slave trade in Zanzibar.
1972 - The First UN Conference on Environment was held in Stockholm. Since then, June 5 has been declared an ENVIRONMENTAL WORLD DAY.
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781 BC - For the first time in the written history, the solar eclipse has been recorded in China.
1039 - Henry III becomes the Holy Roman Emperor.
1783 - Brothers Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloon.
1784 - Mister Elizabeth Thible is the first woman to fly a balloon.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver declares Puget Sound for British.
1896 - The industrialist and inventor Henry Ford drove himself to his "quadricycle" Detroit.
1917 - Awarded the first Pulitzer Prizes in the United States.
1920 - The Treaty of Trianon was signed in Paris by which about two thirds of the territory and population were taken away to Hungary.