June 5

Today in History
• 1288 - Battle of Worringen: Jan I, Duke of Brabant defeats army of Archbishop Siegfried II
• 1507 - England and Netherlands sign trade agreement
• 1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1794 - US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign forces
• 1798 - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated
• 1805 - 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
• 1846 - Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
• 1882 - Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Constitution Day
• Hot Air Balloon Day
• Jerusalem Day
• Orthodox Pentecost Monday
• President's Day in Equatorial Guinea
• Thank You Day
• Western Australia Day
• World Environment Day

Birthdays
• 1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant theologian and reformer
• 1664 - Mustafa II [Mustafa Oglu Mehmed IV], Ottoman Sultan (1695-1703)
• 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker
• 1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)
• 1771 - Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1837-51)
• 1819 - John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discoverer of Neptune)
• 1823 - George Thorndike Angell, lawyer and advocate for the (ASPCA)
• 1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party)