07-04-2004, 09:58 PM
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July 5th
1687 ~ Isaac Newton's “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” published.
1781 ~ Birthday of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
1830 ~ France invaded Algeria.
1853 ~ Birthday of Cecil Rhodes, South African politician.
1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor.
1880 ~ Birthday of Jan Kubelík, violinist.
1962 ~ Algeria became independent from France.
1909 ~ Birthday of Andrei Gromyko, president of the Soviet Union.
1971 ~ The voting age in the United States was reduced to 18 from 21.
1996 ~ Birthday of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal.
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