July 5th, 2009

July 5th in History

2003:
Taiwan is the last territory to be removed from the WHO's list of SARS affected areas.

1934:
Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

1814:
American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.

1803:
The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).

1687:
Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.