June 5<\/p>\n
1837 \u2013 The city of Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013 Pat Garrett is born in Chambers County, Alabama<\/p>\n
1851 \u2013 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/em>, or Life Among the Lowly<\/em>, starts a 10 month run in the National Era<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the first American Jew to hold such a position.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013Under the Selective Service Act of 1917, conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago kills 61 people.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 In a speech at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to post war Europe, called the ‘Marshall Plan’.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 The Six Day War begins as Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian airfields in response to the mobilization of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 The earthen dam on the Teton river in Idaho collapses, killing 11 people in the small towns downstream as a result of the flooding.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 A report by the Centers for Disease Control includes 5 people in Los Angeles, California, having a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, the first recognized cases of AIDS.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 A strike that ends up lasting 7 weeks begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Tropical Storm Allison<\/em> makes landfall on the Texas coastline and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston, causing $5.5 billion in damage, the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States dies at his home in Los Angeles<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 5 1837 \u2013 The city of Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. 1850 \u2013 Pat Garrett is born in Chambers County, Alabama 1851 \u2013 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a 10 month run in the National Era newspaper. 1864 \u2013 Union forces under General … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55566"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93393,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55566\/revisions\/93393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}