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There are many reasons to celebrate June 5! June 5 is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining until the end of the year. Follow our list below for some great reasons to celebrate this day.
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National Gingerbread Day: This holiday is about bringing awareness of gingerbread to those who have not yet tired a version of gingerbread. Gingerbread is known for many food varieties. Everything from gingerbread "bread" to cookies and gingerbread houses too! So on this special food holiday we are encouraged to make some homemade gingerbread and share it with our family, friends and work mates!  • Gingerbread Latte Recipe • Gingerbread Cake Recipe  • Gingerbread Man Cookie Recipe
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World Environment Day (International)   • Related to Earth Day
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on 5th June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Holidays Around the World
• Arbor Day (New Zealand): Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 - which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

• Constitution Day and Father's Day (Denmark): Constitution Day (Danish: Grundlovsdag), observed on June 5, commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Danish constitution of 1849, which established Denmark as a constitutional monarchy, and honors the constitution of 1953, which was adopted on the same day. Almost all workplaces and shops are closed at noon on this particular day and political rallies and meetings are traditionally held.

• Indian Arrival Day (Suriname): Indian Arrival Day is a holiday celebrated on various days in the nations of the Caribbean and the island nation of Mauritius, usually commemorating the arrival of people from the Indian subcontinent to that nation as indentured labor brought by British colonial authorities and their agents. In Suriname it's celebrated on June 5.

• Liberation Day (Seychelles): Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, the end of an opressive regime, as in Portugal, or the end of an occupation by another state, as in the Netherlands, thereby differing from independence in the meaning of secession from another country.

• President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
• Khordad Movement Anniversary (Iran)
• Feast of Núr, the first day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
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Is it your Birthday Today?  See who shares your birthday.
• Birth anniversaries of Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher, and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.

Happy Birthday! Brian McKnight, Bill Moyers, Jill Biden, Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett,  Mark Wahlberg
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Christian Feast Day:
• Boniface (Roman Catholic Church)
• June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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On This Day
• In 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated at Los Angeles, CA.
• 35 years ago, in 1977, the Apple II computer, with 4K of memory, went on sale for $1,298.
• In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control first noted the new illness that would be called AIDS.
Make Note:
• INTERNATIONAL CLOTHESLINE WEEK (ICW): (As registered in the Chase's Calendar of Events) is the 1st Saturday in June, for one week.
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External links
BBC: On This Day - June 5
The New York Times: On This Day - June 5
On This Day in Canada - June 5
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