Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 5

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 * 663 – The Daming Palace in Chang'an became the seat of government and the royal residence of the Tang dynasty during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
 * 1257 – Bolesław V, High Duke of Poland, granted city rights to Kraków modelled on the Magdeburg town charter.
 * 1305 – Raymond Bertrand de Got was elected Pope Clement V, succeeding Benedict XI, who died the previous year.
 * 1610 – The masque Tethys' Festival was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick as Prince of Wales.
 * 1832 – The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising, broke out in Paris.
 * 1862 – Vietnamese guerrilla leader Trương Định chose to fight on against European forces, defying Emperor Tự Đức and the Treaty of Saigon.


 * 1941 – Second Sino-Japanese War: About 4,000 people died of asphyxiation in Chongqing when the tunnel in which they were hiding became blocked during a raid in the five-year bombing campaign.
 * 1963 – British politician John Profumo (pictured) admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons about his involvement in a sex scandal with Christine Keeler, and resigned from government.
 * 1963 – The arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for publicly denouncing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi sparked protests in Iran.
 * 1968 – U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
 * 1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.
 * 1981 – The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 * 1989 – An anonymous demonstrator, later dubbed "Tank Man", single-handedly stopped a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests before being dragged aside.
 * 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.


 * Born/died: | Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar |d|879| Elena Cornaro Piscopia|b|1646| Ignatius George II |d|1708| Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover |b|1771| Johann Kuhnau |d|1722| John Couch Adams |b|1819| Stephen Crane |d|1900|  Lee Choon Seng |d|1966| Mark Wahlberg  |b|1971| Kate Spade |d|2018