Daily Calendar for Sunday, June 5, 2016

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Stephen Crane (author) – 1900
O. Henry (American author (real name William Sydney Porter); died in New York, New York) – 1910
Conway Twitty (country music singer) – 1993
Jeanette Nolan (actress) – 1998
Mel Torme (singer) – 1999
Ronald Reagan (40th U.S. president) – 2004
Jeff Hanson (singer & songwriter) – 2009
Ray Bradbury (science fiction author) – 2012
Kate Spade (fashion designer) – 2018

Bananas were sold as a novelty at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia – 1876
New York was first U.S. state to pass legislation on oleomargarine – 1877
Danish women were granted the right to vote – 1915
US troops liberate Rome (WWII) – 1944
The Marshall plan is announced by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall in address at Harvard University – 1947
Senator Robert Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles – 1968
Teton Dam in southeastern Idaho collapsed, resulting in a flood that killed 11 and left 30,000 homeless. The flood caused an estimated $1 billion in damages and nearly wiped out the Idaho cattle industry – 1976