Today is the 4th of July so I thought I’d take a few moments to have a little trip through some of the more notable events in our planet’s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this day in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider in Cern detected the Higgs Boson signal. This was a very big deal (and I’m not saying that because I’m currently writing about a particle accelerator).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today in 2009 Roger Federer won his record-breaking 15th Grand Slam in a suburb of South London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1996 today, Dolly The Cloned Sheep was born. I’m not sure how a cloned sheep was actually born, but that’s what the books tell me. Maybe she was cloned and born in utero<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n On this day in 1976 The Clash performed their first gig in a pub in Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1962 on this day, Algeria finally gained independence from the Today in 1946 the Philippines declared itself an independent state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also today in 1946, the Bikini swimwear was invented (and named after the Bikini nuclear test which took place a couple of days earlier).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This day in 1884 the On this day in 1865 Lewis Carol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published (and later recalled and oh boy do I know that<\/em> feeling!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not much else happened, it’s a quiet day in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the 4th of July so I thought I’d take a few moments to have a little trip through some of the more notable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15658,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}cheese eating surrender monkeys<\/s> France after a long and bloody ordeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\ncheese eating surrender monkeys<\/s> French presented the Statue of Liberty to the Americans (who have since been working to undo all of the statements the statue was dedicated to).<\/p>\n\n\n\n