Today is Friday, June 5, the 156th day of 2009. There are 209 days left in the year.
1661 _ Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1806 _ Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland
1855 _ Anti-foreign Anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention
1876 _ Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1917 _ 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I
1940 _ First synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio
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
1977 _ First personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale