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