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June 5

 * AD 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
 * 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
 * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
 * 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
 * 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
 * 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.