June 5

The English missionary bishop Boniface, called the Apostle of Germany, was killed with his companions near Dokkum in Frisia.

Raymond de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux, was elected pope as Clement V, a reign that would move the papal residence toward Avignon.

Shastriji Maharaj consecrated the central images at Bochasan in Gujarat on this day in 1907, the event marking the establishment of the BAPS Swaminarayan organization.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, a student of Zen and vipassana teachers who developed the secular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, was born in New York City.