Welcome to Today In History for Saturday, July 5, 2008.

On this day in history ..

• 0649 - St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0767 - Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II
• 1054 - Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) 1st reported
• 1294 - Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
• 1295 - Scotland & France sign anti-English covenant
• 1436 - German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
• 1450 - Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of M�nster
• 1596 - English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
• 1626 - Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
• 1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
• 1687 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
• 1750 - Slave revolt on Cura�ao
• 1791 - Jos� Mar�a Narv�ez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)
• 1808 - Battle of Buenos Aires
• 1809 - -6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles
• 1811 - Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
• 1814 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
• 1830 - France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
• 1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro
• 1834 - Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
• 1841 - Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
• 1843 - Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil govt in Oregon Country
• 1859 - Capt N C Brooks discovers Midway Islands
• 1861 - Battle of Carthage, MO - US Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessionist
• 1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS
• 1864 - Battle of Smith's Expedition, MS (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
• 1865 - Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws
• 1865 - Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
• 1871 - Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins
• 1884 - German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
• 1884 - US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
• 1891 - Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
• 1900 - Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
• 1902 - Australia won the one & only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
• 1904 - Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
• 1913 - Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra
• 1914 - Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series
• 1914 - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
• 1919 - 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
• 1919 - Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times
• 1922 - 1st general election in Netherlands
• 1922 - Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro
• 1922 - Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
• 1924 - Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil
• 1929 - 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
• 1929 - WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
• 1930 - 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
• 1932 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
• 1933 - German party Catholic Center disbands
• 1935 - 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast
• 1935 - 1st time brothers on opposing teams hit HRs, Tony & Al Cuccunello
• 1935 - Chicago Cubs are 10� games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
• 1935 - FDR signs National Labor Relations Act
• 1936 - 120�F (49�C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)
• 1937 - 117�F (47�C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
• 1937 - Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game & 2 in 2nd game
• 1937 - Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer
• 1937 - Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
• 1938 - Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
• 1940 - Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
• 1941 - German occupiers disband political parties
• 1942 - 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11
• 1942 - Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
• 1943 - Battle of Gulf of Kula
• 1943 - Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
• 1943 - Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
• 1943 - US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
• 1944 - Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
• 1945 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
• 1946 - Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show
• 1947 - "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 perfs
• 1947 - 54th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (62 64)
• 1947 - Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
• 1948 - Britain's National Health Service Act begins
• 1949 - NY Giants purchase Monty Irvin & Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks
• 1950 - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
• 1951 - Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7� games (Giants will win pennant)
• 1951 - Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)
• 1952 - "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
• 1952 - 59th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63)
• 1953 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
• 1953 - WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1954 - B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
• 1954 - Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days
• 1955 - English harbor strike ends
• 1956 - France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
• 1957 - 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
• 1957 - Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge
• 1958 - 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
• 1958 - J Pengel forms govt/Emanuels premier of Suriname
• 1959 - Ben-Gurion's Israeli govt resigns
• 1959 - Indonesia restores constitution
• 1959 - Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in NYC
• 1960 - Mongolia adopts constitution
• 1961 - 80 die in collisions in Algiers
• 1961 - KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 - St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double
• 1962 - 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
• 1962 - Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
• 1962 - Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
• 1963 - 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87
• 1966 - NYC transit fare rises from 15� to 20�
• 1966 - National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
• 1966 - Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
• 1967 - Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
• 1968 - "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
• 1968 - 82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62)
• 1968 - John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
• 1968 - Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers
• 1969 - 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
• 1969 - Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
• 1970 - 25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
• 1970 - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
• 1971 - 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)
• 1971 - Simon Gray's "Butley," premieres in London
• 1972 - Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
• 1973 - "Live & Let Die," James Bond film premieres
• 1973 - Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
• 1973 - Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda
• 1973 - Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana
• 1973 - Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds
• 1974 - 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
• 1975 - 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
• 1975 - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
• 1977 - Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
• 1978 - Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
• 1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1980 - 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
• 1980 - 94th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bj�rn B�rg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86)
• 1981 - 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
• 1981 - Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
• 1981 - Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of � from memory
• 1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1982 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
• 1982 - ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol v Malay
• 1983 - France invades Algeria
• 1983 - NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team
• 1983 - Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)
• 1984 - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
• 1985 - 117�F (47�C), St George, Utah (state rec) (103� spread, UT 1985)
• 1985 - Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
• 1985 - Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
• 1986 - 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
• 1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74)
• 1986 - Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
• 1986 - Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
• 1987 - 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
• 1987 - A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 HRs before All Star break
• 1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
• 1988 - Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93
• 1989 - Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408
• 1989 - Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)
• 1989 - Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out
• 1989 - South-African Pres Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
• 1989 - Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
• 1990 - Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals
• 1991 - Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by owners
• 1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• 1991 - Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins)
• 1992 - 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
• 1992 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
• 1992 - Sixto Dur�n Ball�n elected president of Ecuador
• 1993 - A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader
• 1993 - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
• 1993 - Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
• 1994 - Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
• 1994 - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
• 1995 - Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st US to win Henley Regatta
• 1996 - A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels
• 1996 - NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves
• 1997 - 104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
• 1997 - NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre
• 1998 - 53rd US Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI