On This Day:
Thursday June 5, 2014 This is the 156th day of the year, with 209 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: anthropology Anthropology, from Greek anthropos "human being," is the science of human beings and their relationship to various other entities in different periods of time. Anthropological studies focus on the physical character, evolutionary history, racial classification, historical and present-day geographic distribution, group relationships, and cultural history of human beings. The two main divisions of anthropology are cultural anthropology, which deals with the study of human culture in all its aspects, and physical anthropology, which is the study of human physical character, both past and present.
Holidays Feast Day of St. Boniface, St. Dorotheus of Tyre, St. Tudno, and St. Sanctius.
Denmark: Constitution Day.
United Nations: World Environment Day.
Iran: Fifteenth of Khordad.
Events 1783 - Joseph Montgolfier and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight in France.
1794 - Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly" began to appear in serial form in the "Washington National Era."
1865 - The first safe-deposit vault was opened in New York City.
1917 - About 10 million American men began registering for the draft in World War I.
1947 - Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as "The Marshall Plan."
1963 - British Secretary of War John Profumo resigned his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, an alleged prostitute.
1967 - The Six Day War began in Israel. Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the Golan Heights of Syria, and the West Bank and Arab sector of East Jerusalem, both previously under Jordanian rule.
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 gay men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.
2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first "official" version of the Web browser, is released.
2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Births 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (This is his baptismal date, the actual date of his birth is unknown).
1878 - (Francisco) Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary.
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist, social philosopher.
1919 - Richard Scarry, author, illustrator children's books.
1939 - Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
1947 - David Hare, British playwright and director.
Deaths 1910 - O. Henry (born William Sydney Porter), American author.
1999 - Mel Tormé, American jazz singer.
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, bass player for the punk band the Ramones.
2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America (1981-89), actor.
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