1996

Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, was born.

1811

Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.

1852

Frederick Douglass delivered his speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in Rochester, New York.

1937

Hormel introduced a canned meat product called Spam.