^B{^#!16!5 June^N! National Day of Denmark. Feast day of St Boniface, St Dorotheus of Tyre, St Tudno, and St Sanctius.
^B{1912^B} US marines landed in Cuba. ^B{1916^B} HMS ^I{Hampshire^I} sank off the Orkneys, with Lord Kitchener aboard. ^B{1945^B} The Allied Control Commission assumed control throughout Germany, which was divided into four occupation zones. ^B{1947^B} US Secretary of State George Marshall called for a European Recovery Program (Marshall Aid). ^B{1967^B} The Six-Day War broke out between Israel and the Arab states. ^B{1968^B} Robert Kennedy was assassinated in a hotel in Los Angeles, US while campaigning for the US presidency. ^B{1970^B} Tonga became independent within the Commonwealth. ^B{1975^B} The Suez Canal was reopened after being closed for eight years.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Nicolas Poussin, French painter, ^B{1594^B}; Adam Smith, Scottish economist, ^B{1723^B}; Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, ^B{1878^B}; John Maynard Keynes, English economist, ^B{1883^B}; Federico García Lorca, Spanish playwright and poet, ^B{1898^B}; Margaret Drabble, English novelist, ^B{1939^B}; David Hare, British playwright, ^B{1947^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Orlando Gibbons, English organist and composer, ^B{1625^B}; Henry Sacheverell, English political preacher, ^B{1724^B}; Carl von Weber, German composer, ^B{1826^B}; Stephen Crane, US poet and novelist, ^B{1900^B}; Horatio, Lord Kitchener, English soldier, ^B{1916^B}; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist, ^B{1916^B}; Georges Feydeau, French dramatist, ^B{1921^B}.
