THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2008

Today is Thursday, June 5, the 157th day of 2008. There are 209 days left in the year.

1661 _ Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1783 _ Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight

1912 _ U.S. marines invade Cuba (third time)

1933 _ U.S. goes off gold standard

1945 _ USA, U.K., USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany

1947 _ Sec of State George C. Marshall outlines ``The Marshall Plan"

1968 _ Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day

1972 _ U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm

1975 _ Suez Canal reopens (after Six-Day War caused it to close)

1977 _ First personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale