bransonglobe.com HISTORY June 5-6, 2020 • 19 Today in History: Sports, movies and more • 1805 1st recorded tornado in “Tornado Alley” (Southern Illinois) • 1876 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia • 1873 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania • 1888 US Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president • 1933 US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold • 1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week • 1940 A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company • 1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion • 1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6 • 1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Western Europe • 1951 Anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in “The National Era” • 1963 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested • 1967 Six-day war begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria • 1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California • 1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967) • 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles • 1981 World’s first today in history program with editable data “TODAY”, invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer • 1984 Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh’s holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar • 2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party • 2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden is published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK • 2018 Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in court in New York • 2018 Miss America pageant announces an end to its swimsuit competition • 2019 Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal “Environmental Science and Technology” Movies & TV • 1987 “Nightline” presents its 1st “Town Meeting” the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM • 1998 “The Truman Show”, starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released • 2018 “Ocean’s 8” film premieres, directed by Gary Ross starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Rihanna Music • 1948 “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend” single released by Stan Jones • 1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut “I Can’t Help Thinking About Me”; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie • 1965 “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2 • 1981 George Harrison releases “Somewhere in England” • 1989 Paul McCartney releases “Flowers in the Dirt” Sports • 1952 Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title • 1955 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550-ft. homerun off Chicago’s Billy Pierce • 1982 French Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats American teenager Andrea Jaeger 7-6, 6-1 for her first French singles crown • 2018 American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. named 2017 top earning sportsperson by Forbes with $285 million Birthdays • 1953 Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park) President of Lucasfilm (2012-), born in Berkeley, California • 1956 Kenny G, saxophonist (Duotones) • 1959 Michael Winans, gospel singer (Winans) EXP 6/30/20 • 1971 Mark Wahlberg, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor
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