06-04-2010, 07:20 PM
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June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist.
1910 ~ Death of O. Henry, American author.
1944 ~ The first of the three Axis capitals, Rome, was liberated.
1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.
1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal.
1967 ~ Israel began the “Six Day War” with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt.
1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA.
1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.
2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.
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