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June 5th, 2006EventSerbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
June 5th, 2003EventA severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50øC (122øF) in the region.
June 5th, 2001EventU.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
June 5th, 2001EventTropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
June 5th, 1998EventA strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
June 5th, 1995EventThe Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
June 5th, 1989EventThe Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel.
June 5th, 1989EventThe Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
June 5th, 1986EventA 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
June 5th, 1984EventPrime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

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