June 5

In literary history

• 1851Harriet Beecher Stowe's first chapter appeared in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era, meant to run a few weeks. It ran ten months, outgrew the paper, and became the bestselling novel of the century the following year.

Writers born on June 5

• John Maynard Keynes (1883),
• Federico García Lorca (1898)

The Daily Canon for June 5

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836).