Here is a sample list of events that have happened in our History on this day. For a full list of events please click the link below.
http://www.onthisday.com/events/june/5
-1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
-1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
-1933 Gold standard abolished
-1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
-1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
-1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
-1944 Allies march into Rome
-1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies
-1944 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
-1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
-1967 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begins
-1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
-1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles
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