Today in History: July 5th

Hello Gentle readers. Lets pack our cases of time and hopefully (Covid safely) head off to the holidays of history.

1687: Isaac Newton publishes his seminal work, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1810: Showman P.T. Barnum is born.

1841: Thomas Cook arranges the first ever package holiday. A trip from Leicester to Loughborough.

1937: Spam, the luncheon meat is first put on sale.

1995: Four years after independence from the USSR, Armenia adopts its new constitution.

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