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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Famous quotes containing the word june:
“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers,
Of April, May, of June and July-flowers;
I sing of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides and of their bridal cakes;
I write of youth, of love, and have access
By these to sing of cleanly wantonness;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)