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TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, July 5, the 186th day of 2017. There are 179 days left in the year.

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Today’s Highlight in History

On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League three months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the National League. In the game against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park, Doby, pinch-hitting for Bryan Stephens, struck out in his first at-bat during the seventh inning; Chicago won 6-5.

On this date

1687 — Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematic­a, a three-volume work setting out his mathematic­al principles of natural philosophy. 1811 — Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independen­ce from Spain. 1865 — The Secret Service Division of the U.S. Treasury Department was founded in Washington, D.C. with the mission of suppressin­g counterfei­t currency. 1935 — President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. 1940 — During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke off diplomatic relations. 1946 — The bikini, created by Louis Reard, was modeled by Micheline Bernardini during a poolside fashion show in Paris. 1954 — Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee; the song he recorded was “That’s All Right.” 1962 — Independen­ce took effect in Algeria; the same day, civilians of European descent, mostly French, came under attack by extremists in the port city of Oran. 1977 — Pakistan’s army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seized power from President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. (Bhutto was executed in 1979.) 1984 — The Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old “exclusiona­ry rule,” deciding that evidence seized in good faith with defective court warrants could be used against defendants in criminal trials. 1991 — A worldwide financial scandal erupted as regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce Internatio­nal. Actress Mildred Dunnock died in Oak Bluffs, Massachuse­tts, at age 90. 2011 — A jury in Orlando, Florida, found Casey Anthony, 25, not guilty of murder, manslaught­er and child abuse in the 2008 disappeara­nce and death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Five years ago

Trucks carrying NATO supplies rolled into Afghanista­n for the first time in more than seven months, ending a painful chapter in U.S.-Pakistan relations that saw the border closed until Washington apologized for an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta’s so-called “dirty war” on leftist dissidents. (Videla died in prison in May 2013.)

Today’s Birthdays

Actress Katherine Helmond is 88. Singer-musician Robbie Robertson is 74. Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 69. Rock star Huey Lewis is 67. Actor John Marshall Jones is 55. Actor Dorien Wilson is 55. Actress Edie Falco is 54. Rapper RZA is 48. Actor Dale Godboldo is 42. Rapper Bizarre is 41. Rapper Royce da 5’9” is 40. Actor Ryan Hansen is 36. Country musician Dave Haywood (Lady Antebellum) is 35. Rock musician Nick O’Malley (Arctic Monkeys) is 32. Actor Jason Dolley is 26. East Central Elementary School rising fifth-grader Justin Valdez of Rome is 10.

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