Today in History
Listings for Tuesday, July 5, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
- 1801 David G Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville Tenn
- 1810 P.T. Barnum, showman.
- 1889 Jean Cocteau
- 1891 John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
- 1909 Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
- 1926 Jan¢s Starker, Hungarian cellist.
- 1951 Huey Lewis
Events:
- Earth at aphelion.
- 1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
- 1811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
- 1859 Captain N.C. Brooks discovers the Midway Islands.
- 1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
- 1935 first Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
- 1938 Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
- 1944 first rocket airplane flown
- 1950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
- 1951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
- 1975 Cape Verde Islands independent, 500 years under Portuguese rule
- 1978 Soyuz 30 is launched
That's all for today.
