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June 5

5 sourced moments from June 5 in history: The Marshall Plan Was Proposed at Harvard (1947); Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles (1968); The first AIDS cases were reported by the CDC in 1981, plus 2 more.

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5 things happened on June 5

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1995 Science · Physics

Labs on Earth have made the coldest stuff in the universe

Since the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995, physicists have chilled atoms to trillionths of a degree — far colder than anywhere in space.

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1989 History · Modern

Tank Man stood before a column of tanks in Beijing

One unarmed man, two shopping bags, and a line of stopped tanks became the century's most enduring image of defiance.

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1981 Human Body & Mind · Medicine & Disease

The first AIDS cases were reported by the CDC in 1981

On June 5, 1981, a CDC bulletin described five sick young men in Los Angeles: the first official record of AIDS, though not its beginning.

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1968 History · Modern

Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles

Minutes after claiming victory in California, the senator and presidential hopeful was gunned down in a hotel kitchen passage.

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1947 Society & Economy · Economics

The Marshall Plan Was Proposed at Harvard

In an understated eleven-minute commencement speech, a U.S. general sketched the blueprint that would rebuild a shattered continent.

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