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Today in History: July 5


1776 The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.

1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.

1832 The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.

1863 Federal troops occupy Vicksburg, Mississippi and distribute supplies to the citizens.

1892 Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine.

1941 German troops reach the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.

1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins.

1944 The Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea, tries to counterattack but is soon beaten back by U.S. forces.

1950 American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.

1946 Bikini A two-piece swimsuit makes an explosive debut in Paris

2003 SARS is declared "contained" by the WHO after affecting 26 countries and resulting in 774 deaths

2016 FBI releases report stating Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" handling classified emails but doesn't recommend prosecution

2020 Mexico's COVID-19 death toll passes 30,000 as it becomes the world's 5th worst-affected country

2020 Florida reports a record 11,458 daily COVID-19 cases

2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will scrap all COVID-19 restrictions in England from 19 July, to become most unrestricted country in Europe

Born on July 5

1801 David Farragut, American admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), born in Campbell's Station, Tennessee (d. 1870)

1810 P.T. Barnum, American showman.

1958 William "Bill" Watterson, American cartoonist known for being author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes (1985-95), born in Washington, D.C.

1996 Dolly the Sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, born in Scotland

Joke of the Day

A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered.

Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mother’s pain to the baby’s father.
He asked if they were willing to try it out. They were both very much in favor of it.
The doctor set the pain transfer to 10%.
However, as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and “kick it up a notch.”
The doctor then adjusted the machine to 50% pain transfer. The husband continued to feel quite well.
Since the pain transfer was obviously helping out the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him.
The wife delivered a healthy baby boy with virtually no pain.
She and her husband were ecstatic.
When they got home, their neighbor was dead on the porch.