On This Day in History: June 5th
Following his victory in the California primary, this Democratic presidential candidate was shot shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968.
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
Partially opened; a door, for example
What is Ajar?
This Soviet dictator, whose purges and five-year plans defined an era of Russian history, died on March 5th, 1953, initiating a power struggle for control of the USSR.
Who is Stalin?
This process, used by green plants and some organisms, converts light energy into chemical energy to create food.
What is photosynthesis?
This classic 1964 musical stars Julie Andrews as a magical nanny who teaches songs like "A Spoonful of Sugar" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
What is Mary Poppins?
Though his exact birth date is unknown, this 'father of economics' was baptized on this date, June 5, 1723, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
Adam Smith
On a computer screen this small picture represents a specific program
What is an icon?
In 1953, at Sing Sing Prison in New York, this husband and wife were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, making them the first U.S. civilians put to death for that crime during peacetime.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Found in plant cells but not animal cells, this rigid layer outside the cell membrane provides structural support.
What is a cell wall?)
This 1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on a French novel, features a title character living beneath the Paris Opera House who becomes obsessed with a young soprano named Christine Daaé.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
On June 5, 1849, King Frederik VII signed a new constitution that transitioned this Scandinavian nation from an absolute monarchy to its current status as a constitutional monarchy.
What is Denmark?
The abominable snowman
What is Yeti?
In 1953, General Motors rolled out its first production model of this iconic American sports car, available only in "Polo White" with a red interior that year.
What is the Chevrolet Corvette?
This scientist is known as the "father of genetics" for his work with pea plants and the laws of inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This popular show about a founding father is famous for its use of hip-hop and rap music to tell a historical story.
What is Hamilton?
A celebrated American short-story writer known for his witty, twist-ending stories like "The Gift of the Magi".
O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter)
Often described as a "blessing" or "godsend," this four-letter word refers to something that is extremely helpful or beneficial, such as rain after a long drought.
What is boon?
On March 26, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk went on a national radio show to announce he had successfully tested a vaccine against this crippling disease, which primarily affected children.
What is polio?
These body cavities can contain blood or can be hollow, as in the bones around the nose
What are sinuses?
In 1996 Robert Goulet took to the road as Don Quixote in a touring production of this musical
What is Man of La Mancha?
Annually held on this date, June 5th, this international observance led by the United Nations Environment Programme raises global awareness for environmental protection.
What is World Environment Day?
This four-letter word, the name of the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet, is used in English to mean a tiny, scarcely detectable amount, as in the phrase "not one ___ of difference."
What is an iota?
Though earlier researchers like Levene and Chargaff provided key chemical characteristics, in 1953, Watson and Crick proposed the "base pairing rules" where adenine pairs exclusively with thymine, and cytosine with guanine, defining this molecule's specific structure and replication mechanism.
What is DNA?
Enzymes speed up biochemical reactions not by changing the overall energy of the reaction, but by lowering this specific energetic barrier.
What is activation energy?
This three-hour-plus sung-through musical holds the record as the longest-running musical in London's West End history, although the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera ran longer in the US.
What is Les Misérables?