Wikipedia Birthday Meme: July 5
Posted By Ardellis on July 5, 2006
Wikipedia Birthday meme: Enter your birthday in Wikipedia and list 3 events, 2 birthdays and 1 death from that day.
Events:
1811 - Venezuela is the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
1935 - The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
Births:
1810 - Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
1944 - Robbie Robertson, Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and sometime actor
Death:
1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect, founder of the Bauhaus school (b. 1883)
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