Today in History for 5th June 2017:
Historical Events
1794 – US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
1950 – US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1954 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos
1956 – Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const
1968 – 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
1988 – Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
Famous Birthdays
1913 – Friedrich Wildgans, composer
1915 – Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1930 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel’nikov, composer
1937 – Stanley Lunetta, composer
1966 – Bill Spiers, Orangeburg SC, infielder (Houston Astros)
1976 – Ross Noble, British comedian
Famous Deaths
1568 – Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1785 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1932 – Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies
1939 – Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1995 – Jan Decadt Flemish composer, dies at 81