Today in History

Today is July 5^th — on this day in:
• 1810 - P.T. Barnum, American circus owner born (d. 1891);
• 1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England;
• 1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation;
• 1946 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France;
• 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That’s All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky, widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll;
• 1996 - Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell; and
• 2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.

ht Brother Maynard

AND

40 years ago...

• Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis
• Nixon was elected by a margin of 500,000
• The Civil Rights Act was passed
• Actress Jane Mansfield died
• "Chain of Fools" by Aretha Franklin was on the radio
• "Planet of the Apes" was at the movies
• O.J. Simpson won the Heisman Trophy
• "Bonanza" was big on TV

ht: Corey Mann