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June 5: World Environment Day; Feast day of Saint Boniface (Christianity)

Teton Dam failure

663 – The Daming Palace in Chang'an became the seat of government and the royal residence of the Tang dynasty during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
1610 – The masque Tethys' Festival was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick as Prince of Wales.
1963 – British politician John Profumo admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons about his involvement in a sex scandal with Christine Keeler, and resigned from government.
1976 – The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed (failure pictured) as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.

More anniversaries:

Virat Kohli

Seaweed roof on Læsø

... that the seaweed roofs (example pictured) of houses on the Danish island of Læsø were traditionally constructed by women?
... that novelist Norah Davis once recommended putting a boy in a hypnotic trance to treat his amnesia?
... that Beethoven's "Tremate, empi, tremate" was not performed for ten years after it was written?
... that, at the time he signed with the Denver Broncos, Tom Beck lived only a few houses away from the team's practice facility?
... that the Bunka Apartments were intended to introduce the US middle-class lifestyle to Japan, but were so expensive that an average salaryman would have spent his entire monthly wage on rent alone?
... that Regina Hall improvised parts of her role as Brenda Meeks in Scary Movie despite the director initially telling her not to "bother" the character and to follow the script?
... that Olympic swimmer Adán Gordón was called the "Human Fish"?
... that Tulasi Srinivas wrote an ethnographic study of beauty parlours?
... that the first New Orleans Marine Hospital exploded, the second sank partially into a swamp, and the third was given a jazz funeral?