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Events on 5 July

Events

• First cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, born [1996]
• Amazon.com incorporated as Cadabra [1995]
• ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’ cartoon published in The New Yorker [1993]
• BBC’s first TV news broadcast [1954]
• Spam luncheon meat introduced [1937]
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica published [1687]

Important Celebrations and Functions

• X-Day – Church of the SubGenius

Birthdays

• Ken Akamatsu [1968]
  Japanese manga artist
• Bill Watterson [1958]
  American cartoonist who created 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip
• Caryn Navy [1953]
  Mathematician and computer scientist
• P. T. Barnum [1810]
  Founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus

Death Anniversaries

• Walter Gropius [1969]
  Founder of the Bauhaus art school
• George de Hevesy [1966]
  Nobel laureate who developed radioactive tracers
• Nicéphore Niépce [1833]
  Inventor of the field of photograph