On This Day for July 5 - Israel's Law of Return passed, Cecil Rhodes is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-05 10:03 Updated: 2020-07-05 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 05

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Cecil Rhodes

FEATURED EVENT

1950

Israel's Law of Return passed

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2009: Swiss tennis player Roger Federer won a record-setting 15th Grand Slam singles title as he defeated Andy Roddick at the Wimbledon Championships. [Take our quiz about Wimbledon.]

2002: American baseball player Ted Williams , who was the last player to hit .400 in Major League Baseball (.406 in 1941), died in Inverness, Florida. [Test your knowledge of America's favourite pastime.]

1996: Dolly, a female Finn Dorset sheep, was born near Edinburgh, becoming the first successfully cloned mammal; her birth was not publicly revealed until the following year.

1989: The first episode of Seinfeld (then called The Seinfeld Chronicles) aired on NBC, and the sitcom later became a landmark of American popular culture. [ Sort fact from fiction in our pop culture quiz.]

1975: Arthur Ashe defeated Jimmy Connors in four sets of tennis at the 89th Wimbledon Championships. [ Test your knowledge of tennis.]

1971: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was certified, granting suffrage to citizens age 18 years and older. [ Take our quiz about amendments to the U.S. Constitution.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1853

Cecil Rhodes
prime minister of Cape Colony

1963

Edie Falco
American actress

1810

P.T. Barnum
American showman

1889

Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist

1940

Chuck Close
American artist