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Today in History ~ July 5
Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela
Events0649 - St Martin I begins his reign as Pope
1596 - English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1687 - Sir Isaac Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was first published by Royal Society in England.
1808 - Battle of Buenos Aires.
1809 - -6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles
1811 - Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
1814 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1830 - France invades Algeria begins a 40 year conquest
1841 - Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1859 - Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
1861 - Battle of Carthage, Missouri [H]
1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS
1865 - Great Britain imposes world 1st maximum speed laws
1865 - Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1865 - William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London
1880 - George Bernard Shaw, 23, quits his job at the Edison Telephone Company in order to write.
1884 - US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
1896 - Bill Doolin escapes from jail [H]
1921 - The "Black Sox" ( The Chicago White Sox players, including stars Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, and Eddie Cicotte) are accused of throwing the World Series [H]
1932 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
1933 - Fritz Todt was appointed General Inspector for German Highways on this day in 1933. His primary assignment: to build a comprehensive autobahn system.
1935 - 1st 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcast.
1935 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) into law.
1937 - Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer
1937 - Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
1938 - Herb Caen gets his 1st column in the S.F. Chronicle.
1940 - During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke diplomatic relations.
1942 - 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11
1942 - Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1943 - US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
1944 - 1st rocket airplane flown
1945 - During World War II, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced that the liberation of the Philippines from its Japanese occupiers was complete.
1945 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1946 - Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. [H]
1947: Larry Doby signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in baseball's American League.
1948 - Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect, providing government-financed medical and dental care.
1950 - Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
1950 - Near Sojong, South Korea, Private Kenneth Shadrick, a nineteen-year-old infantryman from Skin Fork, West Virginia, became the first American reported killed in the Korean War.
1951 - Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)
1954 - B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1956 - France raises tobacco tax 20% to support war in Algeria
1959 - Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
1962 - 96 murdered at massacre in Oran, Algeria, Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1962 - Mantle hits 2 homers enroute to 4 consecutive homers
1966 - National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
1969 - Rolling Stones gave a free concert for 250,000 fans in London's Hyde Park The concert was done in memory of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, who had died two days earlier:
1971 - 26th amendment ratified (reduces voting age to 18)
1975 - Cape Verdes Islands independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1975 - Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors.
1975 - The Cape Verde Islands officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
1977 - Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1978 - Soyuz 30 is launched
1980 - Bjorn Borg won his fifth consecutive title at Wimbledon
1981 - Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1983 - France invades Algeria
1984 - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-- evidence seized with defective court warrants now can be used in criminal trials
1986 - Nancy Reagan cuts red white & blue ribbon reopening Statue of Liberty after it is refurbished
1987 - Australian Pat Cash wins Wimbledon-upsets No 1 seed Ivan Lendl
1989 - South-African Pres Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
1990 - NATO leaders opened a two-day meeting in London to revise the alliance's strategy in light of easing East-West tensions in Europe and the unraveling of the Warsaw Pact.
1991 - A worldwide financial scandal erupted as regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, charging it with fraud, drug money-laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking system.
1992 - Leaders of the world's seven richest nations gathered in Munich, Germany, for their 18th annual economic summit. President Bush, en route to the summit, told cheering Poles in Warsaw that "America shares Poland's dream."
1993 - Kurd guerrillas murder 32 villager in East Turkey
1994 - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
1995 - More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were injured when a deck collapsed at a campground near Wentzville, Mo.
1996 - The government reported the nation's unemployment rate fell to a six-year low in June 1996; nervous investors, fearing higher interest rates, gave the stock market its worst beating in four months, sending the Dow industrials down 114 points.
1997 - NASA scientists brainstormed to fix problems that left Mars Pathfinder's robot rover stuck aboard the lander.
1997 - Sixteen-year-old Martina Hingis became the youngest Wimbledom singles champion this century as she beat Jana Novotna in the women's finals. (Charlotte "Lottie" Dod won in 1887 at age 15.)
1999 - President Bill Clinton began a four-day cross-country tour to promote a plan for drawing jobs and investment to areas that had not shared in the prosperity of the 1990s.
2000 - At the United Nations, President Clinton signed an international agreement to ban the forcible recruitment of youths as soldiers in armed conflict, and a companion accord to protect children from being forced into slavery, prostitution and pornography.
2000 - The U.N. Security Council imposed a diamond ban on Sierra Leone's rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to finance a civil war.
Birthdays Today
1709 - Etienne de Silhouette French minister of finance who gave his name to outline portraits
1775 - William Crotch, composer
1781 - Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
1794 - Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
1801 - David Farragut in Knoxville Tenn (Civil War Union Navy Admiral: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.")
1810 - P. T. (Phineus Taylor) Barnum (circus showman: see "The Greatest Show on Earth" )
1853 - Cecil John Rhodes, South Africa, politician/diamond merchant
1857 - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate.
1877 - Wanda A Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne)
1879 - Dwight Filley Davis the Amercan soldier and politician who donated and gave his name to the international tennis trophy
1880 - Jan Kubelik, composer
1889 - Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/director (Le Potamak, Orphee)
1891 - John Northrop, US, biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946)
1895 - Gordon Jacob, composer (William Byrd Suite)
1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge (American diplomat: U.S Ambassador: U.N., Viet Nam)
1904 - Milburn Stone (actor: Gunsmoke, Arrowhead, The Sun Shines Bright, Atomic City, Branded, Heading for Heaven)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89)
1911 - Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France
1923 - John McKay (College Football Hall of Famer: head coach: USC: only coach to take a team to the Rose Bowl 4 years in a row [1967-70]; head coach: Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1924 - Janos Starker, Budapest Hungary, cellist (Chic Symph 1953-58)
1928 - Warren Oates (actor: Dillinger, Wild Bunch, In the Heat of the Night, Stripes, The Blue and the Gray, Prime Time, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Rawhide; stunt tester: Beat the Clock)
1934 - Gordy (Gordon) Coleman (baseball)
1934 - Katherine Helmond (actress: Soap, The House of Blue Leaves, Who's the Boss, Brazil, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
1936 - Shirley Knight (actress: Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Group, 21 Hours at Munich, Sweet Bird of Youth, Color of Night)
1943 - Curt Blefary (baseball: Baltimore Orioles outfielder: Rookie of the Year [1965])
1944 - Robbie (Jamie) Robertson (composer, musician: guitar: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Shape I'm In, River Hymn, Life is a Carnival)
1944 - Terry Owens (football)
1946 - Rick Morris (hockey)
1948 - Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Wash DC daughter of Richard Milhaus Nixon.
1950 - Gary Matthews (baseball: San Francisco Giants outfielder: Rookie of the Year [1973])
1951 - Huey Lewis (Cregg) (singer: group: Huey Lewis and the News: The Power of Love, Stuck with You, Trouble in Paradise)
1951 - Richard 'The Goose' Gossage (baseball: NY Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres: relief pitcher; spent 1990 season with Fukuoka Daiei Hawks)
1956 - James Lofton (football: wide receiver: NFL Individual Record for career yards gained 14,004 [1978-1995]: Green Bay Packers, LA Raiders, Buffalo Bills, LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles)
Famous deaths
1539 - Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies
1948 - Carole Landis dies at age 29
1852 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69
1950 - Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War
1950 - Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
1969 - Walter Gropius, architect/founder (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
1983 - Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67
1993 - Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84
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