By The Associated Press
                        - Today is Saturday, June 5, the 156th day of 1999. There are 209 days
                          left in the year.

                        - On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally
                          wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic
                          presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately
                          arrested.
                        - In 1723 economist Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
                        - In 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrated their
                          hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
                        - In 1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited
                          Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
                        - In 1883 economist John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge,
                          England.
                        - In 1917 about 10 million American men began registering for the
                          draft in World War I.
                        - In 1933 the U.S. went off the gold standard.
                        - In 1940 the Battle of France began during World War II.
                        - In 1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at
                          Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe
                          that came to be known as "The Marshall Plan."
                        - In 1967 war erupted in the Mideast as Israel raided Egyptian
                          military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
                        - In 1975 Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping,
                          eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.

                        - Ten years ago in one of the most remembered images of China's
                          crushed pro-democracy movement, a lone man stood defiantly in front
                          of a line of tanks in Beijing until friends pulled him out of the
                          way.
                        - Five years ago President Clinton headed across the English Channel
                          aboard the USS George Washington, en route to the 50th anniversary
                          commemoration of D-Day in Normandy. At least 264 Indonesian
                          villagers in East Java were killed by an earthquake.
                        - One year ago a strike at a General Motors parts factory near Detroit
                          closed five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide; the
                          walkout lasted seven weeks. Volkswagen AG won approval to buy
                          Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million. However, BMW later
                          purchased the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo.