June 5
1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier gave the first successful balloon flight demonstration.
1794 - Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.
1884 - Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1933 - The United States went off the gold standard.
1947 - Sen. George Marshall proposed a plan (which became known as the Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from World War II.
1950 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.
1967 - The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began.
1968 - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.
2002 - Elizabeth Smart, age 14, was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. (She was rescued in March 2003.)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States (1981-1989), died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
2006 - More than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President George W. Bush’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
2007 - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. (President George W. Bush later commuted the prison sentence.)
2012 - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker beat back a recall challenge, winning both the right to finish his term and a voter endorsement of his strategy to curb state spending.
2013 - The British newspaper the "Guardian" published the first of many stories based on leaks by Edward Snowden about the top-secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.
2013 - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them sleeping women and children, pleaded guilty to murder at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to avoid the death penalty; he was sentenced to life in prison.
2017 - The White House said President Donald Trump would not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill.
2017 - Bill Cosby went on trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University’s basketball program, at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. (The jury deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial, but Cosby was convicted in a second trial; Pennsylvania’s highest court later tossed out that conviction.)
2020 - Minneapolis banned chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in police practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death; officers would also now be required to intervene any time they saw unauthorized force by another officer.
2021 - The Justice Department said it would no longer secretly obtain reporters’ records during leak investigations.
Birthdays
32 - Sophie Lowe (actress)
35 - Barbara de Regil (actress)
35 - Aimie Atkinson (actress)
36 - Amanda Crew (actress)
39 - Chelsey Crisp (actress)
45 - Liza Weil (actress)
48 - Chad Allen (actor)
51 - Mark Wahlberg (actor)
53 - Brian McKnight (singer)
55 - Ron Livingston (actor)
59 - Karen Silas (actress)
60 - Jeff Garlin (actor)
64 - Beth Hall (actress)
66 - Kenny G (musician)
71 - Suze Orman (TV personality)
74 - Gail Davies (singer)
88 - Bill Moyers (broadcast journalist)
97 - Bill Hayes (actor/singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 5
1948 - Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies sets a National League rookie record with hits in 23 consecutive games.
1977 - The Portland Trailblazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1977 - The Los Angeles Dodgers retire Walter Alston's #24.
1981 - Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as the all-time walks leader with 1,777.
2016 - Novak Djokovic became the first man in nearly a half-century to win four consecutive major championships and finally earned an elusive French Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Andy Murray 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.
1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier gave the first successful balloon flight demonstration.
1794 - Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.
1884 - Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1933 - The United States went off the gold standard.
1947 - Sen. George Marshall proposed a plan (which became known as the Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from World War II.
1950 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.
1967 - The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began.
1968 - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.
2002 - Elizabeth Smart, age 14, was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. (She was rescued in March 2003.)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States (1981-1989), died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
2006 - More than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President George W. Bush’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
2007 - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. (President George W. Bush later commuted the prison sentence.)
2012 - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker beat back a recall challenge, winning both the right to finish his term and a voter endorsement of his strategy to curb state spending.
2013 - The British newspaper the "Guardian" published the first of many stories based on leaks by Edward Snowden about the top-secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.
2013 - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them sleeping women and children, pleaded guilty to murder at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to avoid the death penalty; he was sentenced to life in prison.
2017 - The White House said President Donald Trump would not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill.
2017 - Bill Cosby went on trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University’s basketball program, at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. (The jury deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial, but Cosby was convicted in a second trial; Pennsylvania’s highest court later tossed out that conviction.)
2020 - Minneapolis banned chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in police practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death; officers would also now be required to intervene any time they saw unauthorized force by another officer.
2021 - The Justice Department said it would no longer secretly obtain reporters’ records during leak investigations.
Birthdays
32 - Sophie Lowe (actress)
35 - Barbara de Regil (actress)
35 - Aimie Atkinson (actress)
36 - Amanda Crew (actress)
39 - Chelsey Crisp (actress)
45 - Liza Weil (actress)
48 - Chad Allen (actor)
51 - Mark Wahlberg (actor)
53 - Brian McKnight (singer)
55 - Ron Livingston (actor)
59 - Karen Silas (actress)
60 - Jeff Garlin (actor)
64 - Beth Hall (actress)
66 - Kenny G (musician)
71 - Suze Orman (TV personality)
74 - Gail Davies (singer)
88 - Bill Moyers (broadcast journalist)
97 - Bill Hayes (actor/singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 5
1948 - Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies sets a National League rookie record with hits in 23 consecutive games.
1977 - The Portland Trailblazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1977 - The Los Angeles Dodgers retire Walter Alston's #24.
1981 - Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as the all-time walks leader with 1,777.
2016 - Novak Djokovic became the first man in nearly a half-century to win four consecutive major championships and finally earned an elusive French Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Andy Murray 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.
