Today's Highlights:
Thursday, June 5 2003
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Spotlight: Topic of the Day: The Beastie Boys, and Beck will perform at the Field Day festival which has been moved from Riverhead, New York to Giants Stadium this Saturday.
Today's News:
- Russia -- female suicide bomber blows up bus, killing 15 air force personnel
- Martha Stewart -- resigns as CEO of
Martha Stewart Living - Robert Mugabe -- public letter sent to Zimbabwe president by prominent African-Americans
Today's History:
- United States -- went off gold standard (1933)
- George C. Marshall -- Secretary of State outlined an aid program for Europe, later known as the Marshall Plan (1947)
- Six Day War -- began when Israel made preemptive strike against Egypt (1967)
Today's Birthdays:
- Economists -- Adam Smith (1723-90) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
- Pancho Villa -- Mexican revolutionary guerrilla leader (1878-1923)
- Bob Rosenschein -- high-tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of
GuruNet , turns 50 - Mark Wahlberg -- Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights turns 32
