The Almanac
Today is Friday, June 5, the 156th day of 2015 with 209 to follow. The
moon is waning. Morning stars are Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. Evening
stars are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Venus. Those born on this date are
under the sign of Gemini. They include British furniture maker Thomas
Chippendale in 1718; Scottish economist Adam Smith in 1723; Lincoln
County, N.M., Sheriff Pat Garrett, who shot Billy the Kid, in 1850;
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John
Maynard Keynes in 1883; actor William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) in 1895;
Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo in 1898; author/illustrator
Richard Scarry in 1919; actor Robert Lansing in 1928;
journalist/commentator Bill Moyers in 1934 (age 81); British novelist
Margaret Drabble in 1939 (age 76); Olympic athlete John Carlos in 1945
(age 70); Welsh author Ken Follett in 1949 (age 66); financial adviser
Suze Orman in 1951 (age 64); entertainer Kenny G in 1956 (age 59);
rapper-turned-actor/producer Mark Wahlberg in 1971 (age 44); actor Chad
Allen in 1974 (age 41). On this date in history: In 1783, the first
public demonstration of a hot-air balloon occurred at Annonay, France.
In 1933, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill abolishing the
gold standard. In 1967, the Six Day War began between Israel and the
Arab states of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. In 1968, as he campaigned for
the Democratic presidential nomination in Los Angeles, U.S. Sen. Robert
Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant. (Kennedy,
42, died the next day.) In 1976, the Teton River Dam in Idaho collapsed
as it was being filled for the first time, killing 14 people, flooding
300 square miles and causing an estimated $1 billion damage. In 1991,
in a step away from apartheid, South African legislators repealed the
Land Acts of 1913 and 1936, which reserved 87 percent of land for
whites. In 2000, Ukrainian officials announced that the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant, site of the worst radiation accident in history,
would be closed. In 2003, officials said U.S. troops would withdraw
from the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, bringing an
end to 50 years of guard duty. In 2004, Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S.
president, died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 93 of
complications from Alzheimer's disease. In 2008, the alleged mastermind
of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States told a
military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he wanted to plead guilty to
the charges to become a martyr. Khalid Sheik Mohammed said he expected
to face the death penalty. In 2012, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a
Republican, became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a
recall election. In 2013, Susan Rice was named U.S. national security
adviser. In 2014, A hooded man with a shotgun killed one person and
wounded two others at Seattle Pacific University before he was
pepper-sprayed and subdued by a student, with others assisting. Police
praised the actions of a lot of heroes in stopping the gunman who, one
officer said, was hellbent on killing a lot of people today. A thought
for the day: I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back
to you. You get back what you give out. -- Nancy Reagan .
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