June 5: Slave Market of Zanzibar, the Marshall Plan, AIDS and Bobby Kennedy Gunned Down

On This Day in History June 5, 2020 Historical Events 1873  Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania 1947  US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe 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 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 More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Anastasia Nikolaevna (1901 - 1918) Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646 - 1684) John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) Mark Wahlberg 49th Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Horatio Kitchener (1850 - 1916) Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) More Famous Deaths June 5: Bobby Kennedy Gunned Down on Campaign Trail Less than five years after President Kennedy was assassinated, his younger brother Bobby, hoping to win the White House, was felled by a gunman on this day. Read the Article You Might Like Take Our Weekly Quiz You received this email because you opted in at our website, OnThisDay.com Update Your Preferences | Unsubscribe © 2020 OnThisDay.com 2 Acacia Place, Tauranga 3110, New Zealand