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On this day June 30-Jul 6, 2019 (week 27)
June 30, 2019 - July 6, 2019 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features London’s Tower Bridge, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the end of child factory workers, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Caesar salad, the German architect Walter Gropius, and the first airship to cross the Atlantic
June 30, 1894: Tower Bridge, an iconic symbol of London, was officially opened. Two sections bearing the roadway are raised to allow tall-masted ships to pass through
July 1, 2018: Left-winger Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico’s presidential election in a landslide victory that upended the nation’s political establishment
July 2, 1819: Britain passed the Factory Act, prohibiting employment of children under nine in textile factories, and limiting under 16s to working only 12 hours a day
July 3, 1969: Brian Jones, a founder member of British rock band The Rolling Stones, was found drowned in his swimming pool a month after being dismissed from the band
July 4, 1924: Chef Caesar Cardini, running out of food for his customers, created a salad from odds and ends that remained. Caesar salad was an instant hit
July 5, 1969: Influential German architect Walter Gropius died in New York. He founded the Bauhaus School and is regarded as a master of modernist architecture
July 6, 1919: The first airship to cross the Atlantic, the British R-34, arrived in New York after a flight of 108 hours. The landing party had to jump out by parachute