Elvis Presley Presents New Song 'Hound Dog' On Television

June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1851 - American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (Life Among the Lowly) begins serialization in a newspaper.
1926 – Ankara Agreement was signed between the United Kingdom, Türkiye and Iraq. Turkey agreed to take a 25 percent share from the revenue of Mosul oil for 10 years and gave up its rights in Mosul. But later on, this right was also waived in exchange for £500.
1947 – The Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall called for support for post-war Europe.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduced his new song “Hound Dog” on television on The Milton Berle Show, his provocative hip movements during the show were considered obscene by the audience at that time.
1957 – Gülhane Military Medical Academy was organized.
1963 – British Secretary of War John Profumo is forced to resign from his post over a sex scandal involving him. (Profumo Scandal)
1964 – Upon the government's decision to intervene in Cyprus, the President of the United States of America Johnson sent a letter to İnönü stating that weapons belonging to the US aid could not be used in the intervention and that went down in the history of Turkey as the “Johnson Letter”.
1967 – Between Israel and Arab countries; The conflicts that went down in history as the “Six Day War” began. After the conflict, Israel acquired more territory than its own, and captured the Gaza Strip, the cities of Bethlehem and Hebron, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
1975 – The Suez Canal was opened to international maritime traffic 8 years later, after the Six-Day War.
1976 – The "Teton Dam" in the US state of Idaho collapses.
1977 – The Apple II, the first practical personal computer for home use, goes on sale.
1981 – The appearance of homosexuals on the stage was banned by some governorships, especially in Istanbul, on the grounds that they violated the general moral rules.
1981 - A weekly medical journal published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a rare form of pneumonia, which occurs only in patients with weakened immune systems, was found in 5 people in Los Angeles, California. These patients went down in history as the first confirmed AIDS cases.
1983 – The 12th and 47th executions of the 48 September Coup: On 7 September 1979, right-wing militants Halil Esendağ and Selçuk Duracık, who raided a bakery in Manisa Turgutlu and killed 4 left-wing bakers, were executed.
2017 – Montenegro became a member of NATO.

Births

1656 – Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French naturalist (d. 1708)
1799 – Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (d. 1870)
1819 – John Couch Adams, English astronomer (d. 1892)
1830 – Karmin Crocco, Italian bandit (d. 1905)
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1883 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist (d. 1946)
1898 – Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet (d. 1936)
1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born British physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1979)
1928 – Tony Richardson, English film director (d. 1991)
1932 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (d. 1981)
1932 – Yekta Güngör Özden, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet
1933 – William Kahan, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
1939 – Joe Clark, Canadian businessman and politician
1941 – Ergün Aybars, Turkish historian and academic
1941 – Martha Argerich, Argentine concert pianist
1944 – Whitfield Diffie, American cypherologist
1946 – Coşkun Göğen (Rape Coşkun), Turkish actor
1946 – Stefania Sandrelli, Italian actress
1947 – Laurie Anderson, American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director
1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh writer of historical and thriller novels
1952 Nicko McBrain, English singer
1954 – Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor and director
1954 – Nancy Stafford, American actress, filmmaker, former model, and screenwriter
1956 – Enis Berberoğlu, Turkish journalist, writer and politician
1956 – Merzie Ibragimovna Khalitova, Soviet and Ukrainian citizen, composer of Crimean Tatar origin
1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comorian politician
1960 – Kerem Alışık, Turkish actor
1960 - Leslie Hendrix, American actress
1962 – Astrid, King II. The second child and only daughter of Albert and Queen Paola and sister of the current Belgian monarch, King Philippe
1964 – Rick Riordan, American fantasy writer
1966 – Aydoğan Aydın, Turkish soldier (d. 2017)
1967 – Ron Livingston, American film and television actor
1968 – Sebnem Sonmez, Turkish actress
1969 – Çiçek Dilligil, Turkish actress
1970 – Koji Noguchi, Japanese former international football player
1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American actor, musician, and television producer
1971 Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese former football player
1978 – Nick Kroll, American actor, comedian, and voice actor
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 – Pete Wentz, bassist and songwriter of Fall Out Boy
1981 – Serhat Akin, Turkish football player
1982 – Achille Emana, Cameroonian football player
1982 – Zvjezdan Misimović, Bosnian football player
1984 – Stephen Nagbe Mennoh, Liberian football player
1984 – Yusuf Güney, Turkish singer
1985 – Jeremy Abbott, American figure skater
1986 – Bárbara de Regil, Mexican actress
1986 – Károly Sándor Pallai, Hungarian scientist, poet and translator
1987 – Marcus Thornton, American professional basketball player
1988 - Austin Daye, American professional basketball player
1989 – Ed Davis, American professional basketball player
1989 – Gilberto Oliveira Souza Junior, Brazilian football player
1989 – Khaleem Hyland, Trinidad and Tobago national football player
1989 – Léo Schwechlen, French football player
1989 – Yiğit Gökoğlan, Turkish football player
1990 – Ben Rienstra, Dutch football player
1990 – DJ Mustard, American music producer and DJ
1990 – Junior Hoilett, Canadian national football player
1990 – Masato Kudo, Japanese football player
1990 – Matthias Ostrzolek, Polish-German football player
1990 – Polina Rahimova, Azerbaijani volleyball player
1990 – Sekou Oliseh, Liberian football player
1991 – Lisa Schmidla, German rower
1991 – Martin Braithwaite, a Danish national football player of Guyana descent.
1992 – Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
1992 – Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian football player
1992 – Yago Pikachu, Brazilian football player
1993 – Candido Ramírez, Mexican football player
1993 – Erdal Akdari, Turkish football player
1993 – Maria Thorisdottir, Norwegian national football player
1995 – Troye Sivan, South African-born Australian actress, singer, songwriter and former YouTuber
1996 – Marcão, Brazilian defender
1997 – Henry Onyekuru, Nigerian national football player
1997 – Kieran Tierney, Scottish footballer
1998 – Fabian Benko, German football player
1998 – Yuliya Lipnitskaia, Russian figure skater
2000 – Pierre Kalulu, French football player

Deaths

1017 – Sanjō, 67th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 976)
1316 – Louis X, king of France (b. 1289)
1434 – Yuri Dmitrievich, Duke of Zvenigorod from 1389 until his death (b. 1374)
1615 – Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period (b. 1593)
1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
1832 – Kaʻahumanu, consort queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1768)
1897 – Teodor Kasap, Ottoman journalist, writer and translator of Greek origin (b. 1835)
1910 – O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
1944 – Riccardo Zandonai, Italian opera and western classical music composer and music educator (b. 1883)
1958 – Evelyn Ellis, American actress (b. 1894)
1965 – Wilhelm, prince of Sweden and Norway (b. 1884)
1971 – Cahit Irgat, Turkish cinema and theater actor (b. 1915)
1974 – Hilmi Ziya Ülken, Turkish philosopher and sociologist (b. 1901)
1977 – Fevzi al-Kavukçu, Arab soldier and politician (b. 1890)
1993 – Conway Twitty, American singer (b. 1933)
1983 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1898)
2004 – Necdet Mahfi Ayral, Turkish theater and cinema artist (b. 1908)
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2004 – Zahir Güvemli, Turkish writer, cartoonist and critic (b. 1913)
2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German-Austrian actress and ballerina (b. 1918)
2009 – Rajeev Motwani, Indian-born computer scientist (b. 1962)
2010 – Erdoğan Tokatlı, Turkish cinema director, writer and translator (b. 1939)
2011 – Ludo Martens, Belgian historian and communist politician (b. 1946)
2012 – Caroline John, English actress (b. 1940)
2012 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
2015 – Sadun Boro, Turkish sailor (b. 1928)
2015 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician and former Iraqi Foreign Minister (b. 1936)
2016 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
2017 – Andy Cunningham, English actor, puppeteer and writer (b. 1950)
2017 – Cheick Tioté, Ivory Coast national football player (b. 1986)
2017 – Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer (b. 1952)
2017 – Kathryn Stripling Byer, American poet and educator (b. 1944)
2018 – Brian Browne, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1937)
2018 – Daša Drndić, Croatian female writer and novelist (b. 1946)
2018 – Feng Ting-kuo, Taiwanese-Chinese politician (b. 1950)
2018 – Frank Bresee, American radio broadcaster and historian (b. 1929)
2018 – Jānis Bojārs, Lithuanian shot put athlete (b. 1956)
2018 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer and businessperson (b. 1962)
2018 – Pierre Carniti, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1936)
2019 – Dinyar Contractor, Indian actor, comedian, director and writer (b. 1941)
2019 – Elio Sgreccia, Italian biologist and Cardinal (b. 1928)
2020 – Carlos Lessa, Brazilian economist and professor (b. 1936)
2020 – Keiko Itō, Japanese haiku poet (b. 1935)
2021 – Narinder Bragta, Indian politician (b. 1952)
2021 – Jean-Claude Caron, French actor (b. 1944)
2021 – TB Joshua, Nigerian cleric, television personality and philanthropist (b. 1963)
2021 – Pedro Taberner, Spanish former football player (b. 1946)
2021 – Galen Young, American professional basketball player (b. 1975)
2022 – Latif Demirci, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1961)
2022 – Dom Phillips, British journalist and columnist (b. 1964)
2022 – Alec John Such, American musician (b. 1951)
2022 – Troubles, American rapper (b. 1987)

Holidays and special occasions

World Enviroment Day