What happend on 5th June

04.06
06.06
1956

Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1954

The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.

1947

Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

1946

A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.

1945

Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.

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.

1933

The U.S. 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.

1924

Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).

1917

World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."

1916

Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.