Today is Monday, June 5th, the 156th day of the year. There are 209
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Black Music Month,
National Candy Month, Gay Pride Month, National Dairy
Month, National Iced Tea Month, National Dairy Month,
Adopt a Cat Month, National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Month, Rose Month, Turkey Lovers Month, World
Environment Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Tommie Smith, 79, track and field legend
John Carlos, 78, track and field legend
Freddie Stone, 77, guitarist (Sly and the Family Stone)
Kenny G., 67, jazz saxophonist
Michael Winans, 64, gospel singer
Brian McKnight, 55, singer
Lamon Brewster, 50, boxer
Tory Holt, 47, football player
Marques Colston, 40, football player
Marcus Thornton, 36, basketball player
Steelo Brim, 35, TV show host
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Ronnie Dyson, 73, singer (d. 1990)
DEATHS
Clarence Pendleton, 1988, civil rights leader (b. 1930)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship “Voladora”
off the coast of Cuba.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin”, or “Life Among The Lowly”, starts a ten-month run in
the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1907 – Jockey, Jimmy Lee makes racing history.
1940 – The American Negro Theater organizes.
1950 – U.S. Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation.
1956 – Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses,
unconstitutional.
1968 – Presidential candidate, Sen. Robert Kennedy, is shot at the
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies
the next day.
1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Center for
Disease Control and Prevention reports that 5 people in L.A. have
a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune
systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1987 – Dwight Gooden returns to baseball from drug rehabilitation
and allow wins.
1987 – Mae Jemison became the 1st Black female astronaut.
HOROSCOPE
As a Gemini born on June 5th, you take great pride in your ability to communicate. You are energized by the outside world and take most opportunities to share your observations with others. Your friends and peers have always been impressed with your ability to string together valuable insight in an instant, but you feel that the ability is natural. While less aware individuals may call you talkative or a chatterbox, your close friends value your sociability.
