Today is Tuesday, July 5, the 186th day of 2011. There are 179 days left in the year.
1687 ― Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1811 ― Venezuela, first South American country to gain independence from Spain
1841 ― Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
1865 ― William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
1935 ― President Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act
1962 ― Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1969 ― Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
1969 ― Rod Laver wins his fourth Wimbledon championship
1983 ― Baby girl born in Roanoke, Va., to a mother brain dead for 84 days
1985 ― Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of the globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes