Once Upon A Time – July 5 – 1994 – Amazon.Com Founded In Bellevue, Washington By Jeff Bezos

1687 Isaac Newton’s great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation

1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain

1852 Frederick Douglass, 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 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)

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1954 The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin

TODAY IN MUSIC

1975 At Knebworth Festival in England, Pink Floyd debut their album “Wish You Were Here” with pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage

TODAY IN SPORT

2009 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick of the US 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14 for a record 15th Grand Slam singles title

MORE FACTS….

1946 Louis Reard’s design for a bikini swimsuit debuts at the Paris fashion show

2017 Followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahara win a court case, 3 years after his death, to keep his body in a freezer in case he should return to life

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1836 English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel marries Mary Elizabeth Horsley

1870 Prime Minister of Canada John Thompson (24) weds Annie E. Affleck (25) in Portland, Maine

1911 “Anne of Green Gables” author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada