TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

July5, 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.

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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 themission 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.

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.

2017

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that two laws passed by Congress did not end the right to a bond hearing for unaccompanied immigrant children who are detained by federal authorities.