On This Day July 5th

  OTD

July 5th is the one-hundred-eightieth-fourth day of the year, with 179 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge was built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.

1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1809 – The Battle of Wagram between the French and Austrian Empires begins.

1841 – Thomas Cook organizes the first package excursion from Leicester to Loughborough.

1865 – The United States Secret Service begins operation.

1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.

1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1980 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg won his fifth Wimbledon final and became the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).

1994 – Jeff Bezos found Amazon.

 

Birthdays

1586 – Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647)

1653 – Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (d. 1726)

1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser and witness at the Salem Witch trials (d. 1719)

1801 – David Farragut, American admiral (d. 1870)

1805 – Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865)

1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros., and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)

1867 – A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (d. 1962)

1889 – Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)

1913 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)

1951 – Goose Gossage, American baseball player.

1985 – Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player.

1994 – Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player.

 

Highlighted Holiday

TYNWALD DAY

Tynwald Day is an ancient ceremony over a thousand years old, making it the world’s longest-continuous parliament. They have these outdoor meetings every year, and they say it goes back to the eighth century A.D. when the Vikings first settled there. Some people even think it goes back to 979 A.D.

In 800 A.D., Norsemen arrived at Mann and ruled the Island for four and a half centuries. Then, in 1266, they gave it to the King of Scotland, but Tynwald's way of doing things stayed the same. In 1979, they had a whole festival to celebrate their millennium and even made a replica of a Viking longship to honor the Norse voyages from Norway.

Originally, Tynwald Day was on June 24, which is Midsummer’s Day and the feast day of John the Baptist. But in 1753, they switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, which made a difference of 11 days. However, they still used the Julian Calendar to determine Tynwald Day.

The Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency, and Her Majesty The Queen is acknowledged as Lord of Mann. King George VI was the first British Sovereign to preside at St. Johns in July 1945. The Isle of Man isn't represented in the United Kingdom, and their laws don't automatically apply to the Isle of Man.

 

Holidays And Observance

Bikini Day

Comic Sans Day

Mechanical Pencil Day

National Apple Turnover Day

National Graham Cracker Day

National Workaholics Day

Work Without Your Hands Day

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