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Today in
History ~ June 5
Constitution Day, in Denmark
Events
0070 - Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
0754 - Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions
1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College - Cambridge
1752 - Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1753 - Adam Smith Day
1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
1794, Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1827 - Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independence
1833 - Ada Lovelace (daughter of the poet Lord Byron future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
1848 - Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled
1849 - Danish National Day - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1855 - Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
1861 - Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE
1863 - Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
1864 - Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City)
1870 - Constantinople in fire; 900 die
1873 - Under pressure by Great Britain, the sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash ,abolished slavery. Zanzibar was a major slave trade center Although forbidden, slavery in Zanzibar continued until at least 1893.
1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
1876 - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
1884 - William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "If nominated, I will not run. If elected I will not serve"
1899 - Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
1912 - US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
1917 - 10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
1920 - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
1924 - The first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean was transmitted.
1926 - Indians triple play Yankees & win 15-3
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
1933 - President Roosevelt signed a bill abolishing the gold standard
1937 - Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
1940 - Battle of France begins in WW II
1943 - ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) contract signed The U.S. Army contracted with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop an electronic computer. The contract granted the Moore School $61,700 for the next six months
1943 - German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
1944 - 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1944 - Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation
1944 - General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1945 - Opera "Peter Grimes" by Benjamin Britten," premieres in London
1947 - Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as the Marshall Plan.
1951 - Tee Top Designer Gordon M. Buehrig was issued a U.S. patent for his "vehicle top with removable panels,"
1956 - Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses un-constitutional
1963 - John Profumo, the British secretary of war, resigned his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with showgirl Christine Keeler, who was also involved with a Soviet naval officer
1963 - State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1967 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair for murder of nurses
1967 - War erupted in the Mideast. Six days of fighting with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq left Israel in control of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Desert and Golan Heights. [H]
1968 - 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day [H]
1969 - Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
1972 - If You Had Wings opens
1972 - The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was first organized.
1972 - Yugoslav president Tito visits USSR
1975 - British population agrees to European Common Market membership
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1976 - The Teton River Dam in Idaho collapsed as it was being filled for the first time, killing 14 people, flooding 300 square miles and causing an estimated $1 billion damage.
1977 - 1st personal computer, Apple II, goes on sale
1977 - Revolution in Seychelles Islands
1980 - Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (later determined to be AIDS)
1982 - Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 1/2 lengths
1983 - 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy & Cats win
1984 - Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple)
1985 - General Motors agreed to buy Hughes Aircraft for more than $5 billion. At the time, it was the biggest corporate purchase outside the oil industry.
1986 - Former National Security Agency employee Ronald Pelton was convicted in Baltimore of spying for the Soviet Union. The verdict came one day after former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage on behalf of Israel.
1988 - Longest champagne cork flight is 177' 9" in NY
1988 - Australian solo yacht sailor Kay Cottee sailed into Sydney Harbor to become the first woman to circle the globe alone and unassisted.
1990 - S African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize and delivered his delayed Nobel Peace lecture in Oslo, Norway, warning that Western failure to heed his call for economic aid could dash hopes for a peaceful new world order.
1991 - In a step away from apartheid, South African legislators repealed the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936, which reserved 87 percent of land for whites.
1991 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off with seven astronauts on a nine-day mission.
1992 - On the 20th anniversary of the first U.N. environmental conference, Brazil and 11 other nations signed a controversial bio-diversity treaty setting guidelines for the protection and use of plant and animal species.
1993 - Liberian Charles Taylor's rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993 - 23 Pakistani members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces were killed in a series of attacks in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
1993 - 14 men charged in an Iraqi plot to kill former President Bush went on trial in Kuwait.
1996 - Rep. Enid Waldholtz, R-Utah, was granted a divorce, the same day her husband, Joseph Waldholtz, pleaded guilty to fraud after admitting he wrote a quarter-of-a-million dollars in bad checks, provided his wife false information for her taxes and to falsifying spending reports from her congressional campaign.
1997 - Harold J. Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying against his own country, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War.
1998 - Ethnic Albanian delegates pulled out of peace talks with the Yugoslav republic of Serbia because of the ongoing crackdown by Serb police in the rebellious province of Kosovo.
1999 - NATO and Yugoslav military officials began meeting at the Kosovo border to discuss terms for NATO's suspension of its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.
2000 - President Clinton visited the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, the last stop in his weeklong European tour, where he dispensed $80 million in American aid to help entomb the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident.
2000 - Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count under an agreement that dropped murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two men outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta.
2001 - Senate Republicans spent their last full day in power before turning control over to Democrats, a change that came about because of a decision by Vermont Sen. James Jeffords to leave the GOP and become an independent.
Birthdays Today
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1723 - Adam Smith, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized) Kirkcaldy Scot
1819 - John Couch Adams, codiscoverer of Neptune
1878 - [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader
1882 - Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, groundbreaking economist, in Cambridge England
1887 - Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
1895 - William Boyd ( Hopalong Cassidy )
1898 - Federico Garc¡a Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist
1900 - Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
1916 - Eddie Joost (baseball)
1920 - Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (The Longest Day)
1920 - Marion Motley, AAFC NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns Pittsburgh)
1922 - Specs (Gordon) Powell (musician: drummer: CBS staff musician)
1925 - Art Donovan (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts: defensive tackle)
1926 - Bill Hayes (singer, entertainer: The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle, Wrangle; actor: Days of our Lives)
1928 - Robert Lansing, SD Calif, actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer)
1928 - Tony Richardson (Academy Award-winning director: Tom Jones [1963]; A Taste of Honey, The Phantom of the Opera, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Entertainer, The Hotel New Hampshire)
1929 - Robert Lansing (Brown) (actor: The Equalizer, 87th Precinct, Twelve O'Clock High, Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Man Who Never Was, The Grissom Gang, Namu the Killer Whale)
1931 - Jacques Demy (playwright: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
1932 - Pete Jolly (Cragioli) (musician: pianist)
1934 - Bill Moyers (Emmy Award-winning journalist: CBS News, PBS: Bill Moyers Journal; author: Healing and the Mind)
1939 - Charles 'Joe' Clark (16th Prime Minister of Canada [1979-1980]: the youngest to hold that post)
1939 - Ken Follett, spy author (Eye of the Needle)
1939 - Margaret Drabble, British author
1941 - Duke Sims (baseball)
1941 - Floyd Butler (singer: groups: Fifth Dimension, Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass)
1945 - Don Reid (singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses, Class of '57; CMA Vocal Group of the Year [1972-80])
1946 - Fred Stone (singer: group: Sly and the Family Stone: Everyday People, Thank You (Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin)
1947 - David Hare, playwright (Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale)
1947 - Don Herrmann (football)
1951 - Wayne Wood (hockey)
1971 - Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg) (musician: guitar, singer: group: Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch: Good Vibrations; actor: Renaissance Man, Calvin Klein commercials)
Famous deaths
0754 - Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79
1443 - Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 - Lamoraal, Count Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded (becomes a heroic figure in Goethe's play and Beethoven's musical setting)
1568 - Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41
1900 - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1922 - George W. Carmack, the first person to discover gold along the Klondike River [H]
1944 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
1976 - Jean Paul Getty, US oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83
1990 - Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies at 86
1997 - J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
1999 - Jazz and pop singer Mel Torme died in Los Angeles at age 73.
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