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.
 * 1968: Robert Kennedy is shot and seriously wounded.
 * 1975: UK referendum on European Community membership
 * 1981: AIDS epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles.

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.
 * 1984: Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.
 * 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.