Today is Saturday, June 5, the 156th day of 2021 with 209 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury 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; actor William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) in 1895; Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo in 1898; Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1898; author/illustrator Richard Scarry in 1919; actor Robert Lansing in 1928; journalist/commentator Bill Moyers in 1934 (age 87); British novelist Margaret Drabble in 1939 (age 82); New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft in 1941 (age 80); Olympic athlete John Carlos in 1945 (age 76); Welsh author Ken Follett in 1949 (age 72); financial adviser Suze Orman in 1951 (age 70); producer Kathleen Kennedy in 1953 (age 68); entertainer Kenny G in 1956 (age 65); author Rick Riordan in 1964 (age 57); singer Brian McKnight in 1969 (age 52); actor/producer Mark Wahlberg in 1971 (age 50); actor Chad Allen in 1974 (age 47); actor Liza Weil in 1977 (age 44); actor Nick Kroll in 1978 (age 43); musician Pete Wentz in 1979 (age 42); Russian Olympic figure skater Yulia Lipnitskaya in 1998 (age 23).
On this date in history:
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In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill abolishing the gold standard.
In 1950, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that segregation of African Americans in railroad dining cars violated the Interstate Commerce Act.
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, 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In 1991, in a step away from apartheid, South African legislators repealed the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936, which reserved 87 percent of land for whites.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 1998, members of the United Auto Workers went on strike at a General Motors plant in Flint, Mich., over frozen wages. The strike ended seven weeks later with GM promising not to close facilities and buying new equipment for workers, and some workers increasing output by 15 percent.
In 2000, Ukrainian officials announced that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the worst radiation accident in history, would be closed.
In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison struck the Texas coast for the second time shortly after forming in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm, which made a second landfall days later in Louisiana, would go on to kill 50 people and cause $5 billion along the gulf and northeastern coasts.
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 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama named Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. director of national intelligence.
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, replacing outgoing Tom Donilon.
In 2020, Joe Biden secured enough delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2020 election. Voters elected Biden as the 46th president in November.
A thought for the day: "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." -- U.S. President Ronald Reagan
