more events on June 5
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2004
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States.
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1973
Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California.
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1968
Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy’s victory in the pivotal California primary election.
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1967
The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins.
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1956
Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
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1949
Ken Follett, novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles).
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1947
David Hare, British playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag).
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Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines “The Marshall Plan,” a program intended to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild their economies.
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1944
The first B-29 bombing raid strikes the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
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1940
The German army begins its offensive in Southern France.
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1939
Margaret Drabble, English novelist (The Millstone, The Realms of Gold).
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1932
Christy Brown, Irish novelist and poet (My Left Foot).
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1926
David Wagoner, poet and novelist (The Escape Artist).
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1919
Richard Scarry, Children’s author and illustrator.
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1915
Alfred Kazin, critic and editor (A Walker in the City).
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1900
British troops under Lord Roberts seize Pretoria from the Boers.
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1898
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist.
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1884
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British author.
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1883
John Maynard Keynes, economist.
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1880
Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger.
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1878
Francisco “Pancho” Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader.
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1872
The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to include blacks, commences.
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1863
The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic.
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1856
U.S. Army troops in the Four creeks region of California, head back to quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however, will continue for a few more years.
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1851
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era.
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1827
Athens falls to Ottoman forces.
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1794
The U.S. Congress prohibits citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
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1783
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first public balloon flight.
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1723
Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist.
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1637
American settlers in New England massacre a Pequot Indian village.
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1595
Henry IV’s army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
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1568
Ferdinand, the Duke of Alba, crushes the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent.
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1099
Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem.