July 5<\/p>\n
1687 \u2013 Isaac Newton publishes Philosophi\u00e6 Naturalis Principia Mathematica, <\/em>a work in three books written in Latin, stating Newton’s laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, Newton’s law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.<\/p>\n 1813 \u2013 The British raid Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York during the War of 1812<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 American troops under Major General Jacob Brown defeat British troops under General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario during the War of 1812<\/p>\n 1859 \u2013 The U.S. discovers and claims Midway Atoll – ‘midway’ between San Francisco and Tokyo.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 The United States Secret Service begins operation.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia en route to the Panama\u2013Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 The National Labor Relations Act<\/em> is signed into law<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Spam\u00ae<\/em> is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 During World War II, the fleet for Operation Husky<\/em>, the Allied invasion of Sicily sails from Tunisia.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013\u00a0 American forces of Task Force Smith<\/em> engage North Korean forces during the Korean War. 1954 \u2013 Elvis Presley records his first single, “That’s All Right”<\/em>, at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is ratified<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 In the case of United States v. Leon, <\/em>the States Supreme Court establishes a ‘good faith’ exception from the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is sentenced to a 3 year suspended prison term, 2 years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service for his part in the Iran\u2013Contra affair. The conviction is later overturned on appeal<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 President Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 The Nasa space probe, Juno<\/em>, arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20 month orbital survey of the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 5 1687 \u2013 Isaac Newton publishes Philosophi\u00e6 Naturalis Principia Mathematica, a work in three books written in Latin, stating Newton’s laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, Newton’s law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. 1775 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56669"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94094,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56669\/revisions\/94094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Israeli Knesset passes the Law of Return<\/em> which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.<\/p>\n