TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012

Today is Tuesday, June 5, the 157th day of 2012. There are 209 days left in the year.

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

1855 ― Anti-Foreign Anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention

1876 ― Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

1912 ― U.S. marines invade Cuba (3rd time)

1940 ― First synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio

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

1947 ― Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines ``The Marshall Plan"

1950 ― U.S. Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

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

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