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Parenthood can affect pay. A recent study found that women with children earn 5 percent less per child than women without children. Fathers, on the other hand, are often offered higher starting salaries than their childless male counterparts.
NewYorker.com

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TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 5

1099		Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem.
1568		Ferdinand, the Duke of Alba, crushes the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent.
1595		Henry IV's army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
1637		American settlers in New England massacre a Pequot Indian village.
1783		Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first public balloon flight.
1794		The U.S. Congress prohibits citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
1827		Athens falls to Ottoman forces.
1851		Harriet Beecher Stow publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin in The National Era.
1856		U.S. Army troops in the Four creeks region of California, head back to quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however, will continue for a few more years.
1863		The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic.
1872		The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to includes blacks, commences.
1880		Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger.
1900		British troops under Lord Roberts seize Pretoria from the Boers.
1940		The German army begins its offensive in Southern France.
1944		The first B-29 bombing raid strikes the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
1947		Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines "The Marshall Plan," a program intended to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild their economies.
1956		Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
1967		The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins.
1968		Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy's victory in the pivotal California primary election.
1973		Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California.
2004		Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States.

AND I QUOTE

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."- Helen Rowland 

HELPING TO SOLVE THE WORLD'S WATER PROBLEMS

By Henk Jaap Kloosterman, a member of the Rotary Club of Voorburg-Vliet, The Netherlands, and district UNESCO-IHE coordinator

We made this video recently about the strategic partnership between Rotary and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education.

UNESCO-IHE is the only international water management graduate school in the world. Rotary is sponsoring up to eight students a year for any of three master of science programs at the institute in Delft, the Netherlands.

For me, this is Rotary at its best. We are combining the knowledge gained by our students at UNESCO-IHE with the Rotary network and Rotary funding, to arrive at sustainable solutions for water management and water sanitation. The first batch of students started their master of science programs in October 2012. We are at the beginning of something very nice. The best is yet to come. We will keep you posted!

PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

An American Airlines pilot was forced to make an emergency landing  after a passenger refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” The unnamed woman started belting out the song when the plane took off from Los Angeles to New York, and her out-of-tune crooning soon became too much for passengers and flight crew. The pilot made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City, where police handcuffed and escorted the woman off the plane as she continued singing.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 4

1892

The Sierra Club, led by John Muir, was incorporated in San Francisco.

1896

Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive.

1942

The Battle of Midway, a decisive Allied victory in World War II, began.

1944

The U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, leading to the liberation of the city during World War II.

1968

Dorothy Gish, American actress who starred in many silent-film classics, died.

1989

People's Army of China opened fire on crowds of prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, killing thousands.

1992

The U.S. Post Office announced that in a poll people preferred the "young Elvis" stamp to the "old Elvis" stamp.

2001

King Dipendra of Nepal died, three days after shooting most of his family and himself.

2003

Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading.

TRIVIA

Name the long-distance communication device invented by Francis Ronalds in 1816 and first designed and installed commercially by two other Englishmen, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.    

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