05 June

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Birthdays

 * Stefania Sandrelli (b.1946), Ken Follett (b.1949), Mark Wahlberg (b.1971).

Events

 * 1964: The Beatles arrive in The Netherlands; first David Bowie single.
 * 1968: Robert Kennedy is shot and seriously wounded.
 * 1975: UK referendum on European Community membership
 * 1977: Night of 100 Stars (ITV)
 * 1981: AIDS epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
 * 2019: 75th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth.

Charts
as announced on this day, with no.1 single (new in bold). Click year for full chart.
 * 1968: Union Gap - Young Girl (3/4)
 * 1973: Wizzard - See My Baby Jive (4/4)
 * 1979: Blondie - Sunday Girl (3/3)
 * 1984: Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (2/2)
 * 1988: Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg - With a little Help From My Friends (4/4) (see also here)
 * 1994: Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around (2/15)
 * 2005: Axel F - Crazy Frog (2/4)
 * 2011: Pitbull - Give Me Everything (3/3)

Top of the Pops

 * 1969: Jimmy Savile . Tommy Roe - Dizzy.
 * 1975: Ed Stewart. Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - Whispering Grass.
 * 1980: no show due to strike.
 * 1986: Gary Davies & Simon Bates. Doctor & The Medics - Spirit in the Sky.
 * 1998: Jo Whiley. B*witched - C'est la vie.