On June 5
On June 5, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Six-Day War (1967).
On this day
Between 5 and 10 June 1967 Israel fought and decisively defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War.
Also this week in history (Jun 2 – Jun 8)
Beginning on 8 June 1783, the Laki (Lakagígar) fissure system in southern Iceland, linked to the Grímsvötn volcano, erupted continuously for roughly eight months, disgorging some 14 cubic kilometres of basaltic lava along with vast clouds…
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower launched Operation Overlord, the amphibious invasion of German-occupied France across five beaches in Normandy.
On 8 June 793 Scandinavian raiders attacked the wealthy monastery of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of Northumbria that was a preeminent centre of Christianity in early medieval England.
Signed on 7 June 1494 by the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and the Kingdom of Portugal, the Treaty of Tordesillas drew an imaginary meridian from pole to pole 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.
On 6 June 1674 Shivaji Bhonsle was crowned Chhatrapati (sovereign) at Raigad fort, formally establishing the Maratha state in western India.
Beginning on 3 June 1839, Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu oversaw the public destruction of roughly 1,000 long tons (some 20,000 chests) of opium that he had compelled British and other foreign merchants to surrender at Canton (Guangzhou).
From 4 to 7 June 1942 the United States Pacific Fleet defeated a Japanese naval force near Midway Atoll in the central Pacific.
From 3 to 14 June 1992 the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), popularly the 'Earth Summit', convened in Rio de Janeiro, drawing delegations from 178 countries and over 100 heads of state in the largest…
Results of the world's largest election saw Narendra Modi's BJP win a third consecutive term, but the party fell short of an outright parliamentary majority for the first time since 2014, leaving Modi dependent on his NDA coalition…