On this day: Ronald Reagan_ 40th U.S. president dies of Alzheimer’s disease in 2004 (original) (raw)

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 5: 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. 1945 – The Allied Control Commission took control of Germany,...read full story