05-06-2013, 10:37
June 5th
1900 - Atlantic Ocean: The German liner "Deustschland III" sets a new speed record of 23.61 knots.
1908 - Britain: The Miners Federation decides to affiliate to the Labour Representation Committee.
1926 - London: Britain signs an accord with Turkey over disputed territory on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
1933 - Italy: Conductor Arturo Toscanini refuses to conduct at the Bayreuth Wagner festival in protest at the Nazis.
1943 - Buenos Aries: A military junta is formed under President Arturo Rawson. The new labour minister is Juan Peron.
1946 - Britain: The Derby back at Epsom after six years is won by "Airbourne" at 50-1 under Tommy Lowrey.
1953 - Washington: The Senate votes to bar China's entry into the UN.
1961 - London: Dr Arthur Michael Ramsey takes office as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1974 - India: A Smallpox outbreak puts around 10,000 people at risk.
1977 - Seychelles: President James Mancham is deposed in a coup while in London for the Commonwealth Conference.
1991 - Stockholm: The Nobel prize-winner Mikhail Gorbachev, pleads with the west not to set conditions for helping the USSR.
1992 - Warsaw: Polish Peasants Party Leader Waldemar Pawlak is named Prime Minister.
1998 - France: A novel by French writer Alexander Dumas is published in book form 150 years after it was written. The work entitled La Maison Royal de Savoie was discovered by an historian serialised in a magazine.
2004 - USA - The movie star and former President of the United States Ronald Reagan dies from pneumonia at his home in Bel Air California aged 93.
1900 - Atlantic Ocean: The German liner "Deustschland III" sets a new speed record of 23.61 knots.
1908 - Britain: The Miners Federation decides to affiliate to the Labour Representation Committee.
1926 - London: Britain signs an accord with Turkey over disputed territory on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
1933 - Italy: Conductor Arturo Toscanini refuses to conduct at the Bayreuth Wagner festival in protest at the Nazis.
1943 - Buenos Aries: A military junta is formed under President Arturo Rawson. The new labour minister is Juan Peron.
1946 - Britain: The Derby back at Epsom after six years is won by "Airbourne" at 50-1 under Tommy Lowrey.
1953 - Washington: The Senate votes to bar China's entry into the UN.
1961 - London: Dr Arthur Michael Ramsey takes office as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1974 - India: A Smallpox outbreak puts around 10,000 people at risk.
1977 - Seychelles: President James Mancham is deposed in a coup while in London for the Commonwealth Conference.
1991 - Stockholm: The Nobel prize-winner Mikhail Gorbachev, pleads with the west not to set conditions for helping the USSR.
1992 - Warsaw: Polish Peasants Party Leader Waldemar Pawlak is named Prime Minister.
1998 - France: A novel by French writer Alexander Dumas is published in book form 150 years after it was written. The work entitled La Maison Royal de Savoie was discovered by an historian serialised in a magazine.
2004 - USA - The movie star and former President of the United States Ronald Reagan dies from pneumonia at his home in Bel Air California aged 93.