On This Day for June 5 - Start of the Six-Day War, Federico García Lorca is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-05 10:02 Updated: 2020-06-05 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 05

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Federico García Lorca

FEATURED EVENT

1967

Start of the Six-Day War

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2012: American author Ray Bradbury, whose greatest work was the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451, died at age 91. [Take our quiz of famous authors.]

2004: American politician Ronald Reagan—who, as the 40th president of the United States (1981–89), became known for his conservative Republicanism , his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style—died at age 93. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about U.S. presidents.]

1981: AIDS was reported for the first time, following the detection of a rare form of pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles. [ Learn the facts about HIV/AIDS.]

1939: Canadian politician Joe Clark, who in 1979 became the country's youngest prime minister, was born. [Test your knowledge of Canada.]

1883: English economist, journalist, and financier John Maynard Keynes , best known for his revolutionary economic theories (Keynesian economics) on the causes of prolonged unemployment, was born. [Take our quiz about economics.]

1947: In an address at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall advanced the idea of the Marshall Plan , a European self-help program to be financed by the United States.

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