1917<\/strong> – American men began registering for the World War I draft.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, freestyle swimming competition.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> –\u00a0President Roosevelt\u00a0signed the bill that took the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0off of the gold standard.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit,\u00a0MI.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made by Jim Crowford.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV\u2019s “Nightline”.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit,\u00a0MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0for seven weeks.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW’s $554 million offer.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press website.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> –\u00a0Amazon.com\u00a0announced that it would begin selling personal computers later in the year.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.S. Jimmy Carter<\/i>\u00a0was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.<\/p>\n History of 5 June 1917 – American men began registering for the World War I draft. 1924 – Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean. 1927 – Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. 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