June 5

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1851	Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.	Terror	Lowest of the Low	Lowest of the Low
2.	1933	The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.	Pavement	Gold Soundz	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
3.	1946	A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people	Dirty Beaches	Hotel	Badlands
4.	1947	Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.	Ignition	Rebuilding	20 Years of Dischord
5.	1956	Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.	Elvis Presley	Hound Dog	30 Number 1 Hits
6.	1968	U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by PalestinianSirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.	Pamela Blue	My Friend Bobby	The Girls' Scene
7.	1981	The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.	Björk	Pneumonia	Volta
8.	1995	The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.	Hey Mercedes	Absolute Zero Drive	Loses Control

(Historical facts about June 5 are from Wikipedia.)