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Historical events & facts — June 5
What happened on June 5?
On June 5, 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment opened in Stockholm — the first international summit on the state of the planet. It gave rise to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and established June 5 as World Environment Day. The conference laid the foundations of modern international environmental law.
On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, hours after winning the California primary in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. The assassin was Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant. The death of Bobby Kennedy, brother of the assassinated president, was one more blow in the traumatic year 1968 for the United States.
On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive air strike against the armed forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, destroying most of their air forces on the ground within hours. In six days, Israel conquered the Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The Six-Day War radically transformed the map of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Notable birthdays — June 5
Famous people born on June 5
Mary Helen Young
Mary Helen Young was a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter who helped British servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and put to death at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
Theippan Maung Wa
Theippan Maung Wa was a Burmese writer, and one of the pioneers of the Hkit San literary movement. The movement searched for a new style and content in Burmese literature before the Second World War starting with Hkit san ponbyin.
Sheila Sim
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim, Baroness Attenborough was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of Richard Attenborough.
Bill Moyers
Billy Don Moyers was an American journalist and political commentator who served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary from 1965 to 1967 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He also served as the de facto White House Chief of Staff for a brief period from 1964 until 1965.
Spalding Gray
Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor and writer. He is best known for driving autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several films, working with different directors.
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