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July 5

3 sourced moments from July 5 in history: Newton's Principia was published in 1687, paid for by Halley; Venezuela Was the First Spanish Colony in the Americas to Declare Absolute Independence (1811); and Dolly the sheep: first mammal cloned from an adult cell (1996).

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3 things happened on July 5

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1996 Human Body & Mind · Genetics

Dolly the sheep: first mammal cloned from an adult cell

Born on 5 July 1996, Dolly was not the first cloned mammal, and did not age early; she was the first cloned from an adult cell.

1811 History · Modern

Venezuela Was the First Spanish Colony in the Americas to Declare Absolute Independence

On a July afternoon in Caracas, a congress voted to cut three centuries of ties to Spain and invent a republic from scratch.

1687 Science · Physics

Newton's Principia was published in 1687, paid for by Halley

Newton's laws of motion and gravity reached print in 1687 only because Edmond Halley paid, proofread and chased the book through the press.