July 5

July 5 is the 186th day of the year, 179 days remaining

1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1809 - Battle of Wagram starts, the two-day battle was the largest yet of the Napoleonic Wars.

1946 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.

1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.

1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll.

1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
(siehe MarsVideo vom Georg)

Birthday

1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau

1996 - Dolly, first cloned mammal (verendet 2003)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_the_Sheep