TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 5 2019
1687 Isaac Newton’s great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1776 The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.
1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain
1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.
1832 The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.
1865 William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
1892 Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1935 Pres Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act
1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins.
1946 The bikini swimsuit made its debut at a Paris fashion show.
1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1973 Coup in Rwanda – Then Army Chief of Staff, Juvénal Habyarimana, staged a coup and overthrew the President, Grégoire Kayibanda. Habyarimana then held the post of president for 20 years.
1984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old “exclusionary rule”-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos
1996 World’s first live cloned mammal is born Dolly the Sheep, a domestic ship was cloned using cells from an adult sheep by a team led by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell at the Roslin Institute.
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