Here’s the corrected list of ten interesting events that took place on June 5th throughout history, listed in chronological order from oldest to newest:
- 1917: The American men’s basketball team wins the first basketball gold medal at the inaugural Inter-Allied Games held in Paris, France, during World War I.
- 1947: The Marshall Plan, a U.S. initiative to aid the recovery of Western Europe after World War II, is announced by Secretary of State George C. Marshall.
- 1967: The Six-Day War begins, as Israel launches a preemptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
- 1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator and presidential candidate, is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
- 1975: The United Kingdom holds its first referendum, in which the majority of voters choose to remain part of the European Economic Community (EEC), which later became the European Union.
- 1977: The Apple II, one of the first successful mass-produced personal computers, goes on sale.
- 1984: The Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, orders a military operation, known as Operation Blue Star, to remove Sikh militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, leading to a bloody conflict and later, her assassination.
- 1989: The Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China, come to a violent end as Chinese troops and riot police storm the square, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of pro-democracy demonstrators.
- 2004: Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, passes away at the age of 93.
- 2012: Venus, the second planet from the Sun, passes directly between the Sun and Earth, an astronomical event known as the transit of Venus.
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