07-05-2006, 05:10 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 5th
1810 ~ Birthday of Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum, Circus Owner.
1853 ~ Birthday of Cecil Rhodes, South African Politician.
1911 ~ Birthday of Georges Pompidou, President of France.
1948 ~ British National Health Service Act enacted.
1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor.
1969 ~ Death of Walter Gropius, German architect.
1971 ~ The voting age in the U.S. was reduced to 18 from 21.
1975 ~ Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship.
1989 ~ Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in the Iran-Contra affair.
1996 ~ Birthday of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal.
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