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“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”
~ John Maynard Keynes
Wikiquote (John Maynard Keynes (CB, FBA (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, and informed the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century.)
June 5th, 70
Roman Empire:
70 - Siege of Jerusalem; Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
Wikipedia Photo: ● Ancient roman statue ● Detail of Head from Roman Statue of Antinous, credit Corbis ● Statue of Neptune, Trevi Fountain, Rome ● International Sand Sculpture Festival, FIESA 7 ancient Rome.
Relief from a 3rd-century sarcophagus depicting a battle between Romans and Germanic warriors; the central figure is perhaps the emperor Hostilian / Depiction of the Menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
June 5th, 1257
Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
Wikipedia Photo: Warsaw Poland Kkyline ● Tatra Mountains ● Polish Highlands ● Oravsky Hrad, former border watch between Hungary and Poland ● Malbork Castle: Medievla Gothic Castle - Poland.
June 5th, 1798
Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of New Ross; The attempt to spread United Irishmen into Munster is defeated.
Wikipedia Painting: In End of the Irish Invasion; (the Destruction of the French Armada, 1797), James Gillray caricatured the failure of Hoche's expedition.
June 5th, 1829
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
Wikipedia Painting: The Slave Ship, J. M. W. Turner's representation of the mass-murder of slaves, inspired by the Zong Massacre.
June 5th, 1837
Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
Wikipedia Photo: Houston, Texas
June 5th, 1849
1849 - Constitution_of_Denmark: Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
Wikipedia Photo: Denmark Castle
June 5th, 1851
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
Wikipedia Image: Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. ● Full-page illustration by Hammatt Billings for Uncle Tom's Cabin depicts Eliza telling Uncle Tom that he has been sold and she is running away to save her child. (First Edition: Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852 ● Eliza is forced to flee dogs and slave-catchers in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kim Wells, Domestic Goddesse.
June 5th, 1862
Vietnam:
1862 - Treaty of Saigon; As the treaty is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
Wikipedia Photo: Hang En Cave, Vietnam, by Carsten Peter; Tour boats moored in Ha Long Bay at dusk enjoy a serene seascape of limestone sculptures hewn by nature.This UNESCO World Heritage site is host to a diversity of ecosystems including sandy beaches, mangrove forests, and offshore coral reefs. Some of its roughly 1,600 islands and islets boast beautiful grottos with hidden ponds and unusual stone formations; Terraced rice paddies ring the Vietnamese countryside in bright green. The crop, has been grown in Vietnam for thousands of years; Halong Bay, Vietnam; Ba Vi National Park, Hanoi. credit National Geographic.
June 5th, 1864
American Civil War:
1864 - Battle of Piedmont; Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1884 - American Civil War hero General William Tecumseh Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected".
Wikipedia Image: ● Lincoln Memorial; an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln - located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. across from the Washington Monument.
● The northern army led by George McClellan and the southern army led by Robert E. Lee met at Antietam Creek, Maryland in September, 1862. It was a bloody battle where 13,000 Confederates and 12,000 Union troops died in just one day. McClellan had hesitated to attack before the battle thus letting the southern troops regroup. Also, he had saved reserves and refused to use them at the end of the battle thinking that Lee was holding reserves for a counterattack, even though those reserves didn't exist. The Union victory stopped Lee's northward advance and was a turning point in the war.
● Battle of Antietam / Stone Bridge at Antietam Battlefield - Sharpsburg, Maryland
● First Battle Between Ironclads: CSS Virginia/Merrimac (left) vs. USS Monitor, in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
● Although photography was still in its infancy, war correspondents produced thousands of images, bringing the harsh realities of the frontlines to those on the home front in a new and visceral way. The Atlantic.
June 5th, 1900
Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
Wikipedia Photo: Second Boer War; (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog or Tweede Boereoorlog) was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free State.
June 5th, 1917
World War I:
1917 - Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
Wikipedia Photo: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.III biplanes. National Archives and Records Administration.
June 5th, 1933
Great Depression: 1933 - The United States Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
Wikipedia Photo: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936; Bud Fields and his family. Alabama. 1935 or 1936. Photographer: Walker Evans; Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American Legion Employment Bureau in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
June 5th, 1941
World War II:
1941 - Bombing of Chongqing; Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter.
1942 - The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
1944 - In preparation for D-Day; More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast.
1945 - The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
Post World War II:
1947 - United States Senator George Marshall proposed a plan (Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from the effects of Post World War II.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
June 5th, 1956
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
Wikipedia Photo: Elvis Presley ● Elvis Presley - Hound Dog - Tupelo Goldsuit 1957, Youtube 
June 5th, 1959
The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
Wikipedia Image: Singapore (officially the Republic of Singapore - an island country made up of 63 islands); is a southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator.
June 5th, 1963
Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
Wikipedia Image: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
June 5th, 1967
Modern conflicts in the Middle East:
1967 - Six-Day War; The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
Wikipedia Image: Middle East satellite image ● World satellite image.
June 5th, 1968
United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot by an assassin and dies the next day. (Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy on April 17th, 1969.)
Wikipedia Photo: Robert F. Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) ● Robert F Kennedy Portrait by Gardner Cox at National Portrait Gallery ● Robert F Kennedy, © Clyde Keller.
June 5th, 1976
Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
Wikipedia Photo: Teton Dam, credit The Failure of Teton Dam, credit U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.
June 5th, 1977
The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
Wikipedia Photo: Steve Jobs Apple II ● IPad.
June 5th, 1981
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
Wikipedia Image: People living with HIV AIDS world map. ● Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1, colored green, budding from a cultured lymphocyte.
June 5th, 1984
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
Wikipedia Photo: Harmandir Sahib / The Golden Temple in the city of Amritsar, Punjab India.
June 5th, 2004
Former United States President Ronald Reagan dies at 93.
Wikipedia Photo: Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.
June 5th, 2006
Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Wikipedia Image: ● Serbian Spruce trees ● Golubac Fortress, on the Danube river ● Belgrade.
June 5th, 2012
The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins.
Wikipedia Image: Watching the tiny silhouette of the planet Venus slowly cross the face of the sun doesn’t evoke the same drama and excitement as experiencing a total solar eclipse, but what makes a transit so unique is its rarity and historical significance. (Imelda B. Joson and Edwin L. Aguirre, Live Science)
June 5th, 2015
Earthquake
2015 - Sabah earthquake; An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake.
1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake; takes place.
Wikipedia Image: Preliminary Determination of Epicenters / Aleppo Syria; Anchorage, Alaska - March 28, 1964 Prince William Sound USA earthquake and tsunami; 8.9 Mega Earthquake Strikes Japan; Tsunami Swirls Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture March 12 2011. credit NOAA / NGDC, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, USGS, National Geographics.
June 5th, 2017
Modern conflicts in the Middle East, social unrest and terrorist attacks:
2017 - Six Arab countries Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates — cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
2009 - Peruvian political crisis; After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
Wikipedia Photo: Middle East satellite image, NASA. ● Camels are seen early morning on a beach in the Marina area of Dubai October 16, 2008. (Steve Crisp, Reuters) ● A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad burns during clashes between rebels and Syrian troops in Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic, AFP / GettyImages) ● Egyptians gather in their thousands in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 25, 2012 in Cairo Egypt. Tens of thousands have gathered in the square on the first anniversary of the Arab uprising which toppled President Hosni Mubarak. (Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images) ● Black smoke rises above the Tehran skyline as supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi burn tires and other material in the streets as they fight running battles with police to protest the declared results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. (Ben Curtis, AP) ● The Iron Dome defense system fires to interecpt incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov, AP)