July 5th
Today in America's Present Past
1586 | Politician Thomas Hooker was born.
1775 | The Second Continental Congress drafted the Olive Branch Petition to King George III.
1801 | Admiral David Farragut was born.
1810 | Entertainer P.T. Barnum was born.
1813 | War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock, and Plattsburgh, New York.
1814 | War of 1812: Americans defeat the British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario.
1852 | Fugitive slave Frederick Douglass delivers his 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ publicly.
1859 | American sealing ship Captain N. C. Brooks discovers the uninhabited Midway Islands in the North Pacific Ocean and claims them for the U.S.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Jackson, Mississippi.
1865 | The U.S. Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department.
1867 | SCOTUS: Justice James Wayne died.
1868 | Painter William Henry Singer was born.
1902 | Politician Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was born.
1935 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt FDR signed the National Labor Relations Act.
1937 | Entrepreneur and inventor Charles Greenwood died.
1937 | Spam, the meat, was first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1950 | Korean War: The Battle of Osan begins.
1950 | Korean War: Kenneth Shadrick becomes the first identified American soldier killed in the Korean War.
1950 | Musician Huey Lewis was born.
1954 | The USAF begins using the B-52.
1963 | Actress Edie Falco was born.
1989 | British singer Rod Stewart knocks himself out on equipment while performing in Pine Knob, Michigan.
1991 | Poet Howard Nemerow died.
1994 | Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.
2005 | Admiral James Stockdale died.
2022 | Rock guitarist Carlos Santana collapses on stage from dehydration and heat exhaustion in Pine Knob, Michigan.