What happened on 5 June?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1967 Six-Day War Israel captures Sinai, Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights from Egypt, Jordan, Syria; redraws Middle East map.
2. 1981 AIDS pandemic identified Clusters of unusual infections in young men announce a new global epidemic.
3. 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy RFK fatally shot in Los Angeles minutes after winning the California primary; dies the next day.
4. 1967 Israel's dawn strike destroys Egypt's air force In under three hours, near-simultaneous strikes catch the Egyptian air force on the ground at breakfast and destroy some 300 aircraft; Jordan's and Syria's follow by afternoon. Ope
5. 1989 1989 Tank Man at Tiananmen Iconic image of the unidentified Tank Man.
6. 2013 Edward Snowden NSA revelations Former NSA contractor leaks classified surveillance documents.
7. 1944 Eisenhower's weather gamble launches Overlord With the invasion fleet already at sea once and recalled, Group Captain Stagg forecasts a brief break in the June storms — and Eisenhower, alone in the map room at Southwick House,
8. 1883 Born: John Maynard Keynes British economist whose General Theory (1936) overturned classical orthodoxy and underpinned post-war macroeconomic policy. Lead UK delegate at Bretton Woods (1944), architect of t
9. 1929 Ramsay MacDonald's second premiership The Wall Street Crash splits Labour and MacDonald stays on at the head of a Conservative-dominated National Government.
10. 1963 Khomeini's arrest sparks the 1963 uprising A little-known cleric named Ruhollah Khomeini denounces the Shah's reforms and his ties to America and Israel — and his arrest brings crowds into the streets of Qom, Tehran and Mas
11. 1963 Profumo affair War Secretary Profumo lies to Commons about affair with Christine Keeler; brings down Macmillan government.
12. 1975 UK EEC membership referendum Britain's first nationwide referendum: Wilson puts renegotiated EEC membership to the country and 67% vote to stay in, with cabinet ministers campaigning on both sides — the settle