Today is Tuesday, June 5, the 156th day of 2018. There are 209 days left in the year.
661 — Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1783 — Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight
1806 — Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland
1833 — Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1849 — Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1863 — CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic
1910 — J Helffrich discovers asteroids #699 Hela & #700 Auravictrix
1926 — Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
1933 — U.S. goes off gold standard