On July 5th...

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1294 Pietro del Murrone was elected as Pope Coelestinus V.

1295 Scotland and France formed an alliance against England.

1651 Architect Inigo Jones died.

1687 Isaac Newton's Principia was published by the Royal Society.

1750 Slaves on the island of Curacao revolted.

1775 The Second Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition.

1794 Sylvester Graham, advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of Graham crackers, was born.

1801 U. S. naval hero David Farragut was born.

1810 Circus founder P. T. Barnum was born.

1811 Venezuela declared its independence from Spain.

1814 American forces defeated British and Canadian forces at Chippewa, Ontario.

1830 France invaded Algeria.

1833 Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, inventor of photography, died.

1834 A provisional government was formed for Oregon Territory.

1841 Thomas Cook established the first travel agency.

1853 Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers, was born.

1858 President James Monroe's remains were reinterred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

1859 Captain N. C. Brooks discovered the Midway Islands.

1861 The Battle of Carthage (Missouri) was fought.

1865 The U. S. Secret Service was commissioned to investigate and suppress counterfeiting.

1902 U. S. Senator and ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was born.

1904 Actor Milburn Stone was born.

1906 Dorothea Chambers and Laurence Doherty won their respective singles championships at Wimbledon.

1907 May Sutton and Norman Brookes won their respective singles championships at Wimbledon.

1909 Russian politician Andrei Gromyko was born.

1911 French President Georges Pompidou was born.

1917 Clyde Cessna set a U. S. speed record of 124.6 mph in a flight from Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Wichita, Kansas, in a Comet.

1922 Women in the Netherlands voted for the first time.

1924 Jean Borotra won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1930 Bill Tilden won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1932 António de Oliveira Salazar became Premier of Portugal.

1934 Police opened fire on striking longshoremen in San FRancisco, California.

1935 The U. S. National Labor Relations Board was created.
1935 Tony and Al Cuccunello became the first brothers to hit home runs for opposing teams in the same game.
1935 Helen Wills Moody and Fred Perry won their respective singles championships at Wimbledon.

1937 SPAM was introduced to the public.

1945 The Philippines were declared liberated from Japanese occupation.

1946 Louis Reard introduced his bikini design at a Paris, France, fashion show.
1946 Pauline Betz and Yvon Petra won their respective singles championships at Wimbledon.
1946 Sam Snead won the British Golf Open.

1947 Judge Joe Brown was born.

1948 Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect.

1950 The Law of Return was passed, guaranteeing all Jews the right to live in Israel.
1950 U. S. forces engaged in combat in Korea for the first time, at Osan.
1950 Musician Huey Lewis was born.

1951 William Shockley invented the junction transistor.
1951 Baseball player Goose Gossage was born.

1957 Lew Hoad won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.
1957 Bobby Locke won the British Golf Open.

1958 Althea Gibson won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1959 Indonesian President Sukarno dissolved the Constituent Assembly.
1959 David Ben-Gurion resigned as Premier of Israel.
1959 The Saar reverted economically to West Germany.

1962 Algeria formally gained independence from France.

1963 Margaret Smith and Chuck McKinley won their respective singles championships at Wimbledon.
1963 Actress Edie Falco was born.

1968 Billie Jean King won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1969 Kenya's Minister of Economic Affairs, Tom Mboya, was assassinated in Nairobi.
1969 Rod Laver won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.
1969 Architect Walter Gropius died.

1970 An Air Canada DC-8 crashed 7 miles from Toronto, Canada, killing 109 persons.
1970 Donna Caponi won the U. S. Women's Open.

1971 The 26th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, was certified.

1973 General Juvénal Habyarimana became President of Rwanda in a military coup d'état.

1974 Chris Evert won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1975 Cape Verde became independent of Portugal.
1975 Arthur Ashe won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1977 The Pakistani Army overthrew the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

1980 Evonne Goolagong and Björn Borg won their respective singles championships at Wimbledon.

1983 A woman gave birth 84 days after being declared brain dead.

1986 Martina Navratilova won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1987 Pat Cash won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1989 The sitcom "Seinfeld" debuted on NBC.

1992 Andre Agassi won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com.

1997 Martina Hingis won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1998 Pete Sampras won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

2002 Baseball player Ted Williams died.

2003 Serena Williams won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

2008 Venus Williams won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

2009 Roger Federer won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

2012 The Shard opened in London, England.

2014 Petra Kvitová won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.

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