Today is the 186th day of 2014 and the 15th day of summer.
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TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1865, the Salvation Army was founded in London.
In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act was passed, guaranteeing workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon certified the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
In 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, was born.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), circus founder; John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), economist; Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), writer; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985), diplomat; Huey Lewis (1950- ), singer-songwriter; Bill Watterson (1958- ), cartoonist; Edie Falco (1963- ), actress; Adam Young (1986- ), singer-songwriter.
TODAY'S FACT: The bikini swimsuit, introduced by French fashion designer Louis Reard on this day in 1946, was named for the Bikini Atoll, where the United States had conducted a news-making atomic test earlier in the week.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2009, Roger Federer won his world-record 15th Grand Slam tournament with a victory over Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has." -- P.T. Barnum
TODAY'S NUMBER: 5 billion -- cans of SPAM sold worldwide by the end of the 20th century. The canned meat product from Hormel Food Corp. was introduced on this day in 1937.
TODAY'S MOON: First quarter moon (July 5).