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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

5 June

🇮🇳 In India

1961 Ramesh Krishnan, tennis coach and former professional tennis player, was born. As a junior player in the late 1970s, he won the singles titles at both, Wimbledon and the French Open.

2017 India successfully launched its most powerful home-produced rocket, another milestone for its indigenous space program which one day hopes to put a human into orbit. The GSLV Mk III rocket carried a satellite weighing more than three tons into a high orbit above Earth.

🌎 Elsewhere

1661 Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.

1851

Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era.

1900 Stephen Crane, author of Red Badge of Courage, died at age 28.

1949 Ken Follett, author of novels Eye of the Needle and On The Wings of Eagles, was born.

1949 Enid Blyton's wooden toy character Noddy first appears in the Sunday Graphic.

1981 The first cases of AIDS are reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described five cases of a rare form of pneumonia, a deadly immune deficiency disease which later became known as AIDS. In 2000, more than 40 million people worldwide were affected by it.

2011 A chain of volcanoes erupted in Southern Chile, forcing the evacuation of residents.

2012 Ray Bradbury, American author and screenwriter, died. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

⭐ Significance

World Environment Day is celebrated annually since 1973 on 5 June and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

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