TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011

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