Monday, June 5, 1916

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LAST YPRES BATTLE CANADIANS' FIGHT; They Had the Hardest Fighting Yet Experienced in Two Days' Action Just Ended. WON BACK LOST GROUND With Bombs and Fierce Bayonet Work They Recovered Nearly All of a 3,000-Yard Front.

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On This Day

• World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.

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• Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.

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You Share a Birthday With

• John Maynard Keynes (1883)
• Federico García Lorca (1898)
• Dennis Gabor (1900)
• Pancho Villa (1878)
• Allvar Gullstrand (1862)

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