June 5, 1900 (Tuesday)
- At 2:00 in the afternoon, Pretoria, capital of the South African Republic, surrendered to British General Lord Roberts.
- Stephen Crane, the American author of The Red Badge of Courage, died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Badenweiler, Germany.
- Born: Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, inventor of holography; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1971; in Budapest; (d. 1979)
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