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Sorry for being so far behind. I'm not being helped by the fact that early July is obviously a very busy period, historically speaking. Oh well, if anyone is unhappy I have a "fully satisfied or your money back" guarantee.
July 5
1687. Newton publishes his revolutionary work, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. One of the most important works in the history of science, the Principia set forth Newton's laws of motion, Newton's law of universal gravitation and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
1937. Hormel Foods introduces Spam. The food version, not the internet version.
1940. Vichy France and the United Kingdom break off diplomatic relations.
1943. The Battle of Kursk begins, on the German Eastern Front. It is the largest battle in history, involving approximately 2.5 million troops, over 8,000 tanks and nearly 5,000 aircraft. The battle was an attack by German forces which had over the last two years retreated considerably from the high water mark of its Russian invasion, and was designed to eliminate a salient, or bulge, in their lines. Various delays, however, gave the Russians plenty of time to reinforce, and the attack was beaten off.
1946. Originally a Roman invention (how does anyone know this??) the bikini is "reintroduced" in Paris, France. Let it not be said that the French have never done anything for us!!
1954. Elvis Presley records his first single to be released -- That's All Right.
1996. Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
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