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Today is Friday, June 5, the 156th day of 2026. There are 209 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On June 5, 2016, Novak Djokovic became the first man in nearly a half-century to win four consecutive major championships, finally earning an elusive French Open title with a win over Andy Murray to complete a career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1794, Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.<\/p>\n

In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars traveling across state lines.<\/p>\n

In 1967, the Six-Day War began as Israel, anticipating a possible attack by its Arab neighbors, launched a series of airfield strikes that destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian air force.<\/p>\n

In 1968, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California\u2019s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n

In 1975, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel.<\/p>\n

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In 1976, 11 people were killed when the Teton Dam in Idaho failed, releasing 80 billion gallons of water.<\/p>\n

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In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reported that five men in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.<\/p>\n

In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City home. (Smart was found and rescued by police in a Salt Lake City suburb in March 2003.)<\/p>\n

In 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Boeing launched astronauts into space for the first time aboard its Starliner capsule, joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA. Two NASA test pilots blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bound for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • USA Track & Field Hall of Famer John Carlos is 81.<\/li>\n
  • Musician-artist Laurie Anderson is 79.<\/li>\n
  • Author Ken Follett is 77.<\/li>\n
  • Finance author Suze Orman is 75.<\/li>\n
  • Musician Kenny G is 70.<\/li>\n
  • Actor-comedian Jeff Garlin is 64.<\/li>\n
  • Author Rick Riordan is 62.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Ron Livingston is 59.<\/li>\n
  • Singer Brian McKnight is 57.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Mark Wahlberg is 55.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Liza Weil is 49.<\/li>\n
  • Actor-comedian Nick Kroll is 48.<\/li>\n
  • Rock musician Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) is 47.<\/li>\n
  • Singer-actor Troye Sivan is 31.<\/li>\n
  • NFL quarterback Sam Darnold is 29.<\/li>\n
  • Dancer Rylee Arnold is 21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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