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| June 5th, 2006 | Event | Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. |
| June 5th, 2003 | Event | A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50øC (122øF) in the region. |
| June 5th, 2001 | Event | U.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, 2001 | Event | Tropical 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, 1998 | Event | A 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, 1995 | Event | The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. |
| June 5th, 1989 | Event | The 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, 1989 | Event | The 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, 1986 | Event | A 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, 1984 | Event | Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. |
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