Historical Events

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Every day is a new day, history remembers everything and tell us what was happened, and who were the drivers of the day, and how we change the course of history. This is the A-type Political history of daily news of 21st-century man-made human activity. 

5th July
1687  Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1811  Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain
1852  Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave, delivers his 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemns the celebration as a hypocritical sham
1865  US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
1994  Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos
2004  First Indonesian presidential election by the people - first round (eventually won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)








In 772, Pope Adrian I was appointed as a pope from 772 to 795 and he was son of famous Roman Noblemen Theodore.

In 1327, King Edward III was crowned king of England. He was first teenage king in England, but his mother and her lover was ruling on England.

In 1539, Karel and King Francois first time sign the treaty which was named as a "Anti English Treaty" to curtail the power.

In 1587, Queen Elizabeth I signed and ordered the death warrant of her cousin, Mary Stuart was queen of Scots.

In 1669, The Sun King of France Louis XIV limits freedom of religion.

In 1720, Sweden and Prussia sign Peace Treaty

In 1789, Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long

In  1810, 1st insurance company managed by African-American

In 1814, Lord Bryon a romantic poet "Corsair" Sells 10,000 copies on the day of publication

In 1880, The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published

In 1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
In 1883 French Lt-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
In 1884 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
In 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
In 1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite

In 1896 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme" premieres in Turin

In 1897 Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
In 1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
In 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
In 1902 Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben" premieres in Berlin
In 1902 US Secretary of State Hay protests granting Russia exclusive privileges in China, on ground that it runs contrary to the 'open door' policy granting all nations equal rights there
In 1905 Dutch soccer club ADO Den Haag forms in The Hague; ADO represents the amateur branch of the club
In 1905 Hungarian premier Count István Tisza resigns
In 1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
In 1906 Dorothy Grey, wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey fatally injured
In 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon
In 1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, opens
In 1909 US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president; ensuing political instability will bring a threat of US intervention in 1912
In 1910 1st British labour exchange opens
In 1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece
In 1914 Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning, 3-3 tie in Cairo, Egypt in an exhibition baseball game; part of special 56-game world tour
In 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
In 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens
In 1917 German Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
In 1918 Franz Lehar's opera "Wo die Lerche singt" premieres in Budapest

In 1918 Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse's musical premieres in New York
In 1918 Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar (making the day February 14)
In 1919 Brooklyn Robins trade former NL MVP Jake Daubert to Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Tommy Griffith; result of a salary grievance

In 1920 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul, Minn)
In 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
In 1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel

In 1923 Noel Coward's "Young Idea" premieres in London
In 1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens

In 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed

In 1948 Finland goes 1-2 in the Nordic combined event at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Heikki Hasu takes gold ahead of team mate Martti Huhtala
In 1948 Johnny Palmer sets a 36-hole PGA Tour scoring record with rounds of 62-64 in the Tucson Open; finishes runner-up by 1 stroke to Skip Alexander who cards tournament record total 264
In 1949 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
In 1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)

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