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World Environment Day

Today is World Environment Day! World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event organized by the United Nations. Its purpose is to help spread awareness about important environmental issues and to encourage people to take positive political action.

World Environment Day has been celebrated since 1972. The international festivities take place in a different host city each year, and the program is always based on a specific theme. Find out about the concerts, exhibits, film festivals, park clean-ups, and other community events going on in your area on the official WED website.

To celebrate World Environment Day, get involved! Find a way to make a difference and help preserve the earth and all its resources.

Today is also National Gingerbread Day

June is Gay Pride Month & Great Outdoors Month

This week is National Fishing and Boating Week

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History for June 5  1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity. 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era." 1917 - American men began registering for the World War I draft. 1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition. 1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard. 1956 - Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula" was released. 1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began. _________________________________________________________ "Happiness is like coke -- something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else." --Aldous Huxley