06-05-2005, 05:30 AM
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June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish economist.
1849 ~ Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Maynard Keynes, English economist.
1910 ~ Death of O. Henry, American author.
1933 ~ The U.S. Congress abrogated the United States' use of the gold standard.
1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.
1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.
1977 ~ The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, went on sale.
1995 ~ The first Bose-Einstein condensate was created.
2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.
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