1851
Jun 5, Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era.


1880
Jun 5, Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley married Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger.


1973
Jun 5, Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California.


1991
Jun 5, Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl was ordained in Episcopal Church.


1999
Jun 5, In Washington DC Nancy Richards-Akers, a popular romance novelist, was shot and killed by her husband in front of their 2 children. Jeremy R. Akers then killed himself.


2002
Jun 5, Elizabeth Ann Smart (14) was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Salt Lake City. Richard Albert Ricci (48), a suspect and former handyman for the family, died from a brain tumor on Aug 30. She was found Mar 12, 2003, with kidnapper Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Eileen Barzee. In 2005 a judge found Mitchell mentally incompetent to stand trial. In 2009 Barzee (64) pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. She also agreed to testify against her husband. In 2010 a federal jury found Mitchell guilty of kidnapping and forcing sex on her for 9 months. On May 25, 2011, a federal judge sentenced Brian David Mitchell to life in prison.


2007
Jun 5, Alert guards gunned down a black-clad woman at a police recruiting station in Baghdad, a would-be suicide bomber who then exploded before their eyes. Another bomber in Amiriyah killed at least 15 people at a gathering of tribal leaders opposed to al-Qaida in the volatile Anbar province. Gunmen assassinated a local leader of Muqtada al-Sadr's radical Shiite Muslim faction south of Baghdad, and to the north insurgents ambushed an Iraqi army vehicle, killing an undetermined number of soldiers. Police Maj. EnadKhattab was shot and killed along with his brother as they drove in central Beiji about 155 miles north of Baghdad.


2013
Jun 5, In Florida Gloria C. MacKenzie (84) came forward to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history: $590 million. She had bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line.