DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, June 5, the 156th day of 2022. There are 209 days left in the year. On this date 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.
1950: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.
1967: War erupted in the Middle East as Israel, anticipating a possible attack by its Arab neighbors, launched a series of pre-emptive airfield strikes that destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian air force; Syria, Jordan and Iraq immediately entered the conflict.
1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.
1975: Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1976: Fourteen people were killed when the Teton Dam in Idaho burst.
1981: The Centers for Disease Control reported that five gay people 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.
2002: Elizabeth Smart, 14, was abducted from her Salt Lake City home. (Smart was found alive by police in a Salt Lake suburb in March 2003.)
2004: Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
2006: More than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.s.-mexico border as part of President George W. Bush’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
2013: U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them sleeping women and children, pleaded guilty to murder at Joint Base Lewis-mcchord, Washington, to avoid the death penalty; he was sentenced to life in prison.
2020: Minneapolis banned chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.
June 5
Actor-singer Bill Hayes is 97. News correspondent Bill Moyers is 88. Country singer Don Reid of the Statler Brothers is 77. Guitarist Fred Stone of Sly and the Family Stone is 75. Singer-performance artist Laurie Anderson is 75. Financial expert Suze Orman is 71. Jazz drummer Peter Erskine (Steps Ahead, Weather Report) is 68. Saxophonist Kenny G is 66. Actor Beth Hall (“Mom,” “Mad Men”) is 64. Actor Ron Livingston (“Sex and the City,”) is 55. Singer Brian Mcknight is 53. Musician Claus Norreen (Aqua) is 52. Actor-singer Mark Wahlberg is 51. Actor Navi Rawat (“Numb3rs”) is 45. Actor Liza Weil (“Gilmore Girls”) is 45.