Today in History:Thursday, June5, 2013

歷史上的今天：2013年6月5日，星期三

June 5th, 1968“So, my thanks to all of you, and now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there.”

In Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot, after claiming victory in California's Democratic Presidential Primary. Reporter Andrew West is there. “Senator Kennedy has been shot, is that possible? Is that possible?...It is possilbe. Ladies and gentlemen, it is possible.”

Kennedy dies the following day. His convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, ultimately receives life in prison.

1967,The Six-Day War breaks out between Israel and its Arab neighbors, reshaping the map of the Middle East. Fighting ends after Israel seizes control of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.

1947,Birth of the Marshall Plan, the recovery aid program for Europe after World War Two. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines the program that later bears his name at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

“Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.”

1981,The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports the first recognized cases of the disease that eventually becomes known as AIDS.

And 2004,“We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands.” Former President Ronald Reagan dies in Los Angeles at age 93, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Today in History, June 5th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.