This Day in History: June 05

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This Day in History: June 05

What happened this day in history?  Thanks to digital media and amazing historians, we have this list for you via the History Channel and a few dates that we added to the list just for fun.

American Revolution

  • 1723 Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, is baptized in Scotland

Automotive

  • 1998 Autoworkers’ union calls strike at GM parts factory

Civil War

  • 1864 Union routs Rebels at the Battle of Piedmont

Cold War

  • 1947 George Marshall calls for aid to Europe

Crime

  • 1968 Bobby Kennedy is assassinated

Disaster

  • 1870 Constantinople burns
  • 2001 Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall along the Texas coastline ($5.5 billion in damages)

General Interest

  • 1901 Anastasia Nikolaevna, Daughter of the last Russian Tsar is born (d. 1918)
  • 1963 Profumo resigns in sex scandal
  • 1967 Six-Day War begins
  • 1968 Robert F. Kennedy shot
  • 1975 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
  • 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins in the US
  • 1988 1st Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
  • 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
  • 2004 Ronald Reagan dies

Hollywood

  • 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis, Tennessee, on WMFS 92.9 FM
  • 1998 First Episode of Sex and the City airs on HBO
  • 2004 Jennifer Lopez marries Marc Anthony

Literary

  • 1949 Ken Follett is born
  • 1998 Alfred Kazin, American writer and literature critic, dies at 83
  • 2012 Ray Bradbury, bestselling science fiction author, dies at 91
  • 2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published

Music

  • 1956 Elvis rocks The Milton Berle Show
  • 2013 47th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert win big

Old West

  • 1922 Discoverer of Klondike Gold dies

Presidential

  • 1888 Cleveland denies widow her husband’s military pension
  • 1933 FDR takes United States off gold standard
  • 1942 FDR warns Japanese against using poison gas

Sports

  • 1902 42nd British Golf Open: Sandy Herd shoots a 307 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
  • 1993 Julie Krone wins the Belmont Stakes
  • 1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecutive hitting streak at 23
  • 1952 1st sporting event televised nationally – Walcott vs Charles boxing
  • 1955 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hist 550’ HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
  • 1981 Astro’s Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)

Vietnam War

  • 1968 Robert Kennedy shot after California primary
  • 1972 Laird testifies before Congress

World War I

  • 1916 British War Minister Lord Kitchener drowns
  • 1917 10 Million US men begin registering for draft

World War II

  • 1940 Battle of France begins
  • 1944 Allies prepare for D-Day
  • 1944 1st B-29 bombing raid
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