Blast From The Past: Law Of Return

 

On July 5, 1950, the Knesset unanimously adopted the Law of Return, 1950. 

Section 1 of the Law reads as follows: Every Jew has the right to immigrate to the country. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: BBC

 

On July 5, 1954, the BBC broadcast its first televised news bulletin, read by newsreader Richard Baker. This broadcast from Alexandra Palace replaced the previous Television Newsreel format and marked the beginning of daily televised news in the United Kingdom. 

 

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Blast From The Past: NHS

 The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) officially came into operation on July 5, 1948. 

 It was established to provide universal healthcare that was free at the point of delivery and based on clinical need rather than ability to pay. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Philadelphia Chromosome

 

Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 at Independence Hall 

 

                                                            Philadelphia In Medicine  

                                                             Philadelphia Chromosome  

Discovered in 1960 by Peter Nowell and David Hungerford at the University of Pennsylvania and the Fox Chase Cancer Center,

 The Philadelphia Chromosome is historically monumental as the first consistent genetic abnormality linked to a specific human cancer, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). 

 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: Phillipines

 

 The Philippines originally celebrated its Independence Day on July 4th to mark the date the United States granted the country full sovereignty in 1946. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: Indian Independence Bill

 

On July 4, 1947, the Indian Independence Bill was officially introduced in the British House of Commons by Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

 It proposed ending British rule and dividing the subcontinent into two sovereign dominions, India and Pakistan, effective August 15, 1947.

The bill was a culmination of decades of the Indian independence movement and quickly passed through the British Parliament, receiving Royal Assent just two weeks later on July 18, 1947. It allowed the two nations to draft their own constitutions and gave princely states the choice to join either India or Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: Alice In Wonderland

 

Lewis Carroll (the pen name of English author and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on July 4, 1865.

The book was famously inspired by a young girl named Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Carroll worked as a lecturer. After telling the fantastical stories to Alice and her sisters during a boat trip, Carroll was encouraged to write them down, resulting in a worldwide cultural phenomenon that has never been out of print

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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