TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 5
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.
1806 A Spanish army repels the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1832 The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.
1852 Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ speech to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemns the celebration as hypocritical sham
1865 The U.S. Secret Service Division was created to combat currency counterfeiting, forging and the altering of currency and securities.
1892 Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins.
1921 Players from The Chicago White Sox Baseball team are accused of throwing the World Series
1935 U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law. The act authorized labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.
1946 The bikini swimsuit made its debut at a Paris fashion show.
1948 Britain’s National Health Service Act (NHS) takes effect, providing government funded medical and dental care and headed by the Health Minister Aneurin Bevan. The National Health Service was part of the “cradle to grave” welfare-state reforms. The NHS is funded from taxes including a proportion from National Insurance payments. The National Health Service is the world’s largest health service and the world’s fourth-largest employer.
1950 American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old “exclusionary rule,” deciding that evidence seized with defective court warrants could be used against defendants in criminal trials.
1989 Former White House aide Oliver North has been found guilty received a three-year suspended prison sentence and a $150,000 fine for three charges relating to illegal United States’ support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua in the mid-1980s.
1996 Dolly, the first sheep cloned from adult cells, was born.
2006 North Korea tested six missiles, one long-range called the Taepodong-2, and five shorter ranged missiles. The Taepodong-2 reportedly crashed only 42 seconds after its launch, while the other five missiles fell into the Sea of Japan. Concern arose over North Korea’s increased nuclear aggressiveness because the Taepodong-2 has the possibility of reaching parts of the Western United States if launched successfully. The shorter range missiles are capable of hitting Japanese Mainland.
2007 Bernard Ntuyahaga, a former army major in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide was convicted of murdering ten United Nations peacekeepers who were from Belgium. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Belgian court.
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