Today in History for June 5 - Pope John Paul II was born.

Pope John Paul II

On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice, 35 miles southwest of Krakow.Wojtyla went on to become Pope John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century. After high school, the future pope enrolled at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, where he studied philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group. During World War II, Nazis occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother, father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving member of his family.

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June 5 seems to be very eventful, as at;
1661 Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage

1902 Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842) dies.

History is also made today June 5 2017 as;

Portland protests

Gulf states shakeup - Arab nations rift
London bridge attacked by terrorist - ISIS claims attack