Know this day "june 5th 2005" "WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY"
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation taking the United States off the gold standard, which had required that all paper money and coin be redeemable in gold.
1968: On the night he wins the California Democratic presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan in Los Angeles. He dies of his wounds the next day
1783:The public first saw a hot air balloon fly on this date in 1783, in France.
Born on This DayAdam Smith, philosopher and economist (1723)
Federico García Lorca, poet and playwright (1898)
Ruth Benedict, anthropologist (1887)
Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican revolutionary leader (1877)
Margaret Drabble, novelist and editor (1939)
Tony Richardson, stage and film director (1928)
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