July 5
1687 Isaac Newton publishes
Philosophiζ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1775 The
Second Continental Congress adopts the
Olive Branch Petition.
1915 The
Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the
PanamaPacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
1935 The
National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937
Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the
Hormel Foods Corporation.
1943 World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (
Operation Husky).
German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the
Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
1945 World War II: The liberation of the
Philippines is declared.
1946 The
bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France. (And there was much rejoicing.)
1948
National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
1950 Zionism: The Knesset passes the
Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
1954 The
BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1954 Elvis Presley records his first single,
"That's All Right," at
Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
1965 -
Marty Balin and
Paul Kantner formed a Folk-Rock group that would evolve into the
Jefferson Airplane, the premier San Francisco psychedelic band of the late '60s. The Airplane made its debut the following month at a
Haight-Ashbury club, and was signed to RCA later in the year.
1971 Right to vote: The
Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
1973 A
boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank,
kills eleven firefighters.
1975
Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
1978 - The manufacturing of
Some Girls the new album by
The Rolling Stones was halted at EMI's pressing plant after complaints from celebrities, including
Lucille Ball, who were featured in mock advertisements on the album sleeve.
1980 Swedish tennis player
Bjφrn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (19761980).
1989
IranContra affair:
Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
1995 - More than 100
Grateful Dead fans were hurt when a wooden deck collapsed at a campground lodge in Wentzville, Missouri. Hundreds of people were on or under the deck sheltering from heavy rain. More than 4,000 Deadheads were staying at the campground while attending Grateful Dead concerts in the St. Louis suburb.
1996
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
2000 -
Cub Koda (Michael "Cub" Koda), founder member of
Brownsville Station died of complications from kidney failure. Wrote the 2 million selling 1974 hit '
Smokin' In The Boys Room', (which
Motley Crue covered). He took his nickname from Cubby on television's
Mickey Mouse Club.
2009 The largest
hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, in Staffordshire, England.
2012
The Shard in London is inaugurated as the
tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
2016
NASA's
Juno spacecraft enters orbit of
Jupiter.
Births
1586 Thomas Hooker; 1801 David Farragut; 1810 P. T. Barnum; 1902 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; 1904 Milburn Stone ('Doc Adams' on "Gunsmoke"); 1911 Georges Pompidou; 1928 Warren Oates; 1929 Katherine Helmond; 1943 Robbie Robertson

; 1948 William Hootkins, Cassie Gaines (back-up singer Lynyrd Skynyrd); 1950 Huey Lewis, Michael Monarch; 1951 Goose Gossage; 1954 Jimmy Crespo (Aerosmith); 1958 Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes); 1959 Marc Cohn; 1960
Pruitt Taylor Vince (turned
nystagmus into a career); 1963 Edie Falco
Deaths
1819 William Cornwallis; 1920 Max Klinger; 2001 Ernie K-Doe; 2002 Ted Williams; 2006 Kenneth Lay