June 5
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"On June 5, 1568, both Count of Egmont and Count of Hoorn were decapitated on the Grand-Place in Brussels. The Dutch Revolt begins."--Sholem Stein [Joan Bakewell] "What you were also attempting to do, as I understand it, was devalue the art as an object simply by saying, 'if I say it's a work of art, that makes it a work of art.'" --Marcel Duchamp interviewed by Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up on 5 June 1968 |
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Art and culture
- 1568 - The Count of Hoorn and Count of Egmont are decapitated on the Grand Place in Brussels, the Dutch Revolt begins.
- 1851 - Uncle Tom's Cabin's first installment of a 40-week serial in an abolitionist periodical is published.
- 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot.
- 1981 - Five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California are reported to have a rare disease, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
- 1989 - In China Tank Man, the Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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Births
- 1928 - Tony Richardson, British director (d. 1991)
- 1934 - Ralph Rumney, British artist and founder of the London Psychogeographical Association (d. 2002).
- 1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
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Deaths
- 1906 - Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- 1910 - O. Henry, American writer (b. 1862)
- 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
- 2023 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer (b. 1940)
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