CNN Interactive - Almanac

A closed hearing into the death of Princess Diana will be held in Paris.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi begins a 10-day visit to Egypt.
U.S. President Bill Clinton is to deliver the commencement address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On Saturday, June 6, the Belmont Stakes, the third in racing's Triple Crown, will be held.
On Sunday, June 7, the Tony Awards will be presented in New York.
On Monday, June 8, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in Kenneth Starr's request for notes taken by White House aide Vincent Foster in 1993.
On Tuesday, June 9, Vernon Jordan says he's to make his fifth appearance before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Friday, June 10, is a national holiday in Portugal.

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Heading to outer space? Check the weather before you go.		It is Labour Day in the Bahamas. It is Constitution Day in Denmark. It is the President's Birthday in Equatorial Guinea. It is Liberation Day in the Seychelles. Actor Chad Allen ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 24. Filmmaker Jacques Demy ("The Umbrellas of Cherbourg") is 67. Novelist Margaret Drabble ("The Needle's Eye") is 59. Novelist Ken Follett ("The Eye of the Needle") is 49. Artist, actor and writer Spalding Gray ("The Killing Fields") is 57. Actor Robert Lansing ("Under the Yum Yum Tree") is 69. Journalist Bill Moyers is 64. Actor Mark Wahlberg ("Boogie Nights") is 27.

In 1249, in the Sixth Crusade, Louis IX of France landed in Egypt.
In 1783, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier launched the first sustained, manned flight when their balloon, dubbed a "globe aerostatique," rose an estimated 1,500 feet and flew 7,500 feet at Annonay, France.
In 1806, Holland was declared a kingdom with Louis Bonaparte as its king.
In 1873, under pressure from the British, the sultan of Zanzibar signed a treaty abolishing slavery.
In 1900, British troops under Redvers Buller captured Pretoria in the Boer War.
In 1916, Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener of Khartoum, Irish soldier, statesman and conqueror of Sudan, was lost at sea when his ship struck a mine off the Orkneys.
In 1944, the first British gliders touched down on French soil in preparation for D-Day.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Allied Control Commission took control of Germany, dividing it into four occupation zones.
In 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall announced his plan to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.
In 1953, King Frederick signed the new Danish constitution into effect, under which Greenland and the Faroes became integral parts of Denmark.
In 1963, British War Minister John Profumo resigned from government and parliament after admitting he had lied to the House of Commons about his affair with call girl Christine Keeler.
In 1967, the Six Day War between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon began.
In 1968, U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles by Palestinian Arab Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died the next day.
In 1988, solo yachtswoman Kay Cottee sailed into Sydney Harbor to become the first woman to circle the globe alone.
In 1989, Solidarity's defeat of the Communists in Poland's first free elections since World War II was confirmed.
In 1991, the South African parliament voted to repeal the pro-apartheid Group Areas Act and Land Acts of 1913 and 1936.
In 1991, President Chadli Benjedid declared a state of siege in Algeria, sacking the government and putting off the country's first multiparty general election after 11 days of protests by Islamic fundamentalists.
In 1991, two anti-Soviet protesters forced President Mikhail Gorbachev to interrupt his Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo.
In 1993, 23 Pakistani troops serving with the United Nations in Somalia were killed in an ambush.
In 1994, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies scored an overwhelming victory in elections for a new assembly.