What happend on 5th June

04.06
06.06
2004

Smarty Jones loses at the Belmont Stakes to Birdstone and fails to bid the Triple Crown.

2002

Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah home.

2001

Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party.

1999

Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

1998

A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).

1995

Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

1991

Colo-Colo becomes the first Chilean soccer team to win the Copa Libertadores de América.

1989

The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1987

Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special four-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.

1986

A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.