History of 5 June
- 1998 – A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.
- 1998 – Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW’s $554 million offer.
- 1998 – C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press website.
- 1998 – A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks.
- 2001 – Amazon.com announced that it would begin selling personal computers later in the year.
- 2004 – The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.
- 2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
- 2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
- 2013 – A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.
- 2015 – 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. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
- 2017 – Montenegro becomes the 29th member of the NATO.
- 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.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Serhat Akın, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Sébastien Lefebvre, Canadian singer and guitarist
- 1982 – Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombonist (d. 2005)
- 1983 – Marques Colston, American football player
- 1984 – Robert Barbieri, Canadian-Italian rugby player
- 1984 – Eric Traoré, Senegalese footballer
- 1985 – Jeremy Abbott, American figure skater
- 1985 – Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian tennis player
- 1986 – Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Vernon Gholston, American football player
- 1987 – Marcus Thornton, American basketball player
- 1988 – Alessandro Salvi, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player
- 1989 – Megumi Nakajima, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1990 – Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey defenceman
- 1991 – Sören Bertram, German footballer
- 1992 – Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian footballer
- 1992 – Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
- 1993 – Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player
- 1995 – Troye Sivan, South African–born Australian singer-songwriter, actor, and YouTuber
- 1995 – Ross Wilson, English table tennis player
- 1997 – Sam Darnold, American football player
- 1998 – Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater