THIS DAY IN HISTORY 05/06

This Day in History 05/06

JUNE 5TH

1661 – Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1806 – Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland

1833 – Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage

1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy

1873 – Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar

1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.

1967 – 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin

1972 – UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

1975 – Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)

1977 – Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
1979 – Seychelles adopts constitution

1981 – Aid Epidemic officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men

1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

1993 – Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives

2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

2013 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1723 – Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scotland, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)

1941 – Spalding Gray, RI, actor (Beaches, Clara’s Heart, Heavy Petting)

1949 – Ken Follett, Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions)

1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros

1971 – Mark Wahlberg, Boston, Massachusetts, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence

1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28

1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)

1994 – Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67

2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President, Governor of California and radio and film actor, dies aged 93

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