Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Tuesday Timeline - June 5, 1964

It is time for another trip back through time with the Tuesday Timeline, the first edition for June 2012. This week, we’re going to be going back to the 1960s, when the career of a well known singer first began.


Of course, before we do that, we always take a look back at some of the other events that took place on this date.


So, on June 5, the following events happened.


70 A.D. – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem


1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched


1837 – The Republic of Texas incorporates the city of Houston


1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy


1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” begins a ten-month run in abolitionist newspaper “National Era”


1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris, France


1888 – Rio de la Plata earthquake occurs...

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