TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JULY 5
1687 Isaac Newton’s great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation
1776 The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.
1811 Venezuela declares independence from Spain
1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.
1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1865 US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
1865 William Booth formed the Salvation Army in London, England.
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 American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.
1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1954 The BBC launches a new news program based on more up to date news not news from the day before
1971 The Voting Age in the United States is lowered to 18 yrs old when the 26th Amendment to the US constitution is ratified.
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
2006 North Korea tested six missiles, one long-range called the Taepodong-2, and five shorter ranged missiles.
2011 Accused murder Casey Anthony, a 25 year old single mother, was found not guilty of murdering her two year old daughter Caylee in 2008.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
