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Events on June 5

• 1288 The Battle of Worringen ends the Limburg succession dispute and leads to the weakening of the Archbishop of Cologne and the rise of the cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf.
• 1883 The first Orient Express departs from Paris East Station on its journey to Varna on the Black Sea, where travelers can board a ship to Constantinople.
• 1915 As the fifth country in the world, Denmark introduces women's suffrage and enshrines it in its constitution.
• 1940 The Wehrmacht launches “Case Red,” the second part of its offensive to defeat France during the Second World War.
• 1945 After the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Allied Control Council officially assumes the supreme governmental authority in Germany under the Berlin Declaration of the victorious powers.
• 1947 U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines the principles of the Marshall Plan for supporting Europe in a speech to the graduating class of Harvard University.
• 1956 Elvis Presley presents his latest single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show—without a guitar, with his hips wildly gyrating. The performance is criticized by the press as “vulgar” and “obscene,” and as a result, the singer's television appearances are censored.
• 1966 Willy Brandt is elected chairman of the SPD.
• 1971 On the final matchday of the season, Borussia Mönchengladbach achieves the first successful title defense in the history of the Bundesliga. Borussia wins 4:1 in Frankfurt, while the previous leaders, FC Bayern Munich, lose 0:2 in Duisburg.
• 1973 In the Lebach judgment, the German Federal Constitutional Court upholds the ban on broadcasting a television docudrama about a criminal case on the grounds that it would endanger the resocialization of the perpetrators—a landmark ruling on the relationship between broadcasting freedom and the right to privacy in Germany.
• 1989 During the Tiananmen Square massacre, an unnamed man steps in front of a tank column and, through his civil disobedience, prevents it from moving on. Footage of the “Tank Man” soon spreads around the world and gains significance in popular culture.
• 1989 Using an Ariane 4 rocket, the communications satellite DFS-Kopernikus 1 of the German Federal Post is launched from Kourou and placed in a geostationary orbit. It is used to transmit television programs and telephone calls.

Born on June 5

• 1883 John Maynard Keynes, English mathematician and economist
• 1884 Ralph Benatzky, Austrian composer
• 1900 Dennis Gábor, Hungarian-British physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1912 Josef Neckermann, German mail-order businessman and horse trainer
• 1930 Ursula Lehr, German psychologist and gerontologist
• 1941 Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
• 1950 Albrecht Beutelspacher, German professor of mathematics
• 1970 Claudia Urbschat-Mingues, German actress, dubbing and audio drama voice actress
• 1971 Mark Wahlberg, American actor, model and singer
• 1982 Zvjezdan Misimović, Bosnian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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