Today in History
What happened on the 5th of June in history?
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- 1661
Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College - Cambridge
- 1753
Adam Smith Day
- 1783
Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
- 1833
Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
- 1849
Danish National Day - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
- 1855
Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
- 1875
Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
- 1917
10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
- 1920
1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
- 1926
Indians triple play Yankees & win 15-3
- 1933
US goes off gold standard
- 1940
1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
- 1940
Battle of France begins in WW II
- 1944
1st B-29 bombing raid 1 plane lost; engine failure
- 1947
Sec of State George C Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'
- 1967
Israel Syria Jordan Iraq & Egypt begin 6-Day War
- 1967
Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
- 1968
Sen Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan
- 1972
If You Had Wings opens
- 1972
U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
- 1975
Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
- 1977
Revolution in Seychelles Islands
- 1980
Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1981
TODAY/PC ran for 1st time
- 1982
Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 1/2 lengths