On This Day:
Saturday July 5, 2014 This is the 186th day of the year, with 179 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: lichens Lichens are part-algae and part-fungus. The algae in lichens make food and the fungus wraps around the algae to protect it from the sun.
Holidays Feast day of St. Antony-Mary Zaccaria, and St. Athanasius the Athonite.
Cape Verde: Independence Day.
Slovakia: Day of the Slav Missionaries / Saint Cyril and Methodius Day.
Venezuela: Independence Day.
Algeria: Independence Day.
Events 1791 - George Hammond was appointed the first British ambassador to the United States.
1811 - Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
1865 - William Booth founded the Salvation Army, in London.
1892 - Andrew Beard was was issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1935 - The National Labor Relations Act was passed in the U.S.
1943 - The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, began.
1946 - The bikini, designed by Louis Reard, made its debut during an outdoor fashion show in Paris.
1951 - Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented the junction transistor.
1975 - Cape Verde Islands officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
1975 - Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a major men's singles championship.
1989 - The sitcom Seinfeld aired its first episode.
2004 - The first presidential elections were held in Indonesia.
Births 1801 - David G. Farragut, American Civil War naval hero.
1810 - P.T. (Phineus Taylor) Barnum, American circus showman.
1853 - Cecil Rhodes, South African statesman.
1867 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass, American astronomer and archaeologist.
1879 - Dwight F. Davis, American tennis Hall-of-Famer, founder of Davis Cup.
1889 - Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, artist, and film director.
1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American diplomat.
1911 - Georges Pompidou, French premier (1962-8) and president (1969-74).
1950 - Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg, III), American musician.
1958 - Bill Watterson, American cartoonist, and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
1963 - Edith Falco, American actress.
Deaths 2002 - Ted Williams, American baseball Hall-of-Famer and member of the Boston Red Sox.
2004 - R.W. Burchfield, editor of Oxford English Dictionary, British lexicographer.
2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver.
2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation.
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