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July 5
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July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1295 – Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.
- 1316 – Battle of Manolada between the Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea.
- 1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1775 – The United States Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 1803 – The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
- 1809 – The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
- 1813 – War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- 1830 – France invades Algeria.
- 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1865 – The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
- 1878 – The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established.
- 1884 – Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
- 1934 – "Bloody Thursday" – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- 1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
- 1937 – Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45°C (113°F).
- 1940 – World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
- 1941 – World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
- 1943 – Beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village.
- 1943 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
- 1945 – World War II: liberation of the Philippines declared.
- 1946 – The bikini is re-introduced in Paris, France (it was a Roman invention).
- 1947 – Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League. (Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.)
- 1948 – National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom
- 1950 – Korean War: Task Force Smith – First clash between American and North Korean forces in the Battle of Osan.
- 1950 – Zionism: the Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
- 1951 – William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- 1954 – The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
- 1954 – Elvis Presley records That's All Right, his first single to be released.
- 1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
- 1962 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
- 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.
- 1971 – Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
- 1973 – Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.
- 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- 1975 – Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
- 1987 – First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born and in the following years continue to use it to deadly effect.
- 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service.
- 1995 – Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union
- 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- 1998 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 1999 – Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms which include a tornado. The area is hit again with severe storms on August 1.
- 1999 – U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
- 2003 – SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.
- 2004 – The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
- 2006 – North Korea launches at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
- 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
- 2009 – Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam title in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
- 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.
Births
- 1029 – Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian Caliph (d. 1094)
- 1321 – Joan of The Tower, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of King David II of Scotland (d. 1362)
- 1547 – Garzia de' Medici, Prince of Tuscany (d. 1562)
- 1549 – Francesco Maria Del Monte, Italian diplomat (d. 1627)
- 1586 – Thomas Hooker, English Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
- 1653 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
- 1670 – Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, German-born Duchess of Parma (d. 1748)
- 1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials (d. after 1719)
- 1717 – Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
- 1718 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
- 1745 – Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician (d. 1824)
- 1755 – Sarah Siddons, British actress (d. 1831)
- 1780 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
- 1793 – Pavel Pestel, Russian revolutionary (d. 1826)
- 1794 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (d. 1851)
- 1801 – David Farragut, American naval commander (d. 1870)
- 1802 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
- 1805 – Robert FitzRoy, British naval officer, Captain of the HMS Beagle and metereologist (d. 1865)
- 1805 – Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, French prince (d. 1870)
- 1810 – P.T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
- 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
- 1829 – Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican writer and diplomat (d. 1910)
- 1832 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919)
- 1841 – William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904)
- 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, British founder of Rhodesia (d. 1902)
- 1857 – Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933)
- 1860 – Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919)
- 1872 – Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957)
- 1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician (d. 1967)
- 1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
- 1879 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician (d. 1945)
- 1880 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927)
- 1885 – Blas Infante, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
- 1885 – André Lhote, French painter (d. 1962)
- 1886 – Willem Drees, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister and Centenarian (d. 1988)
- 1888 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1963)
- 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
- 1890 – Frederick Lewis Allen, American social historian (d. 1954)
- 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1891 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
- 1895 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter and author (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist (d. 1989)
- 1901 – Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
- 1902 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American diplomat (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Harold Acton, American writer and dilettante (d. 1994)
- 1904 – Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)
- 1904 – Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1905 – Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Georges Vedel, French public law professor (d. 2002)
- 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Georges Pompidou, French politician (d. 1974)
- 1912 – Mack David, American lyricist (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Smiley Lewis, American rhythm and blues vocalist and guitarist (d. 1966)
- 1914 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
- 1915 – John Woodruff, American 800m runner (d. 2007)
- 1918 – George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
- 1918 – René Lecavalier, French-Canadian radio host and television sportscaster (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist
- 1924 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (d. 2001)
- 1924 – János Starker, Hungarian cellist
- 1928 – Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1928 – Pierre Mauroy, French politician
- 1928 – Katherine Helmond, American actress
- 1931 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
- 1932 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
- 1932 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary
- 1935 – John Gilmore, American true crime author
- 1936 – Shirley Knight, American actress
- 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel laureate
- 1938 – Ronnie Self, American rock singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1939 – Booker Edgerson, American football player
- 1940 – Chuck Close, American painter and photographer
- 1942 – Johannes Löhr, German football player and coach
- 1943 – Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Robbie Robertson, Canadian guitarist (The Band).
- 1945 – Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican politician and Attorney General of México.
- 1946 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, Québécois lawyer, physician and politician
- 1946 – Paul Smith, British fashion designer
- 1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1948 – William Hootkins, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer (Huey Lewis and the News)
- 1950 – Michael Monarch, American guitarist (Steppenwolf)
- 1951 – Goose Gossage, American baseball player
- 1951 – Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
- 1954 – Leni Björklund, Swedish politician
- 1954 – John Wright, New Zealand cricketer
- 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
- 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
- 1956 – Patsy Pease, American actress
- 1956 – James Lofton, American football player and coach
- 1957 – David Hanson, politician
- 1957 – David Pinkney, British Touring car racer
- 1957 – Doug Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958 – Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor
- 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
- 1959 – Marc Cohn, American singer and songwriter
- 1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
- 1960 – James M. Kelly, American politician
- 1960 – Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer
- 1961 – Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
- 1961 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
- 1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
- 1963 – Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
- 1963 – Mark Stockwell, Australian swimmer
- 1965 – Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
- 1966 – Kathryn Erbe, American actress
- 1966 – Susannah Doyle, British actress
- 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian football player and coach
- 1966 – Claudia Wells, American actress
- 1967 – Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
- 1968 – Ken Akamatsu, Japanese manga artist
- 1968 – Kenji Ito, Japanese composer
- 1968 – Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian journalist, singer and keyboardist (The Evaporators)
- 1968 – Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
- 1969 – John LeClair, American hockey player
- 1969 – RZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
- 1969 – Jenji Kohan, American television writer and producer
- 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
- 1971 – Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
- 1972 – Robert Esmie, Canadian athlete
- 1972 – Letha Weapons, American porn actress
- 1973 – Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer
- 1973 – Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
- 1973 – Róisín Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter (Moloko)
- 1973 – René Spies, German bobsledder
- 1974 – Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 – Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
- 1975 – Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese bassist (Týr)
- 1975 – Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor
- 1975 – Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
- 1975 – Diplo, American DJ, producer and songwriter
- 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
- 1976 – Bizarre, American rapper (D12)
- 1977 – Royce Da 5'9", American rapper
- 1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
- 1979 – Tim Coly, German rugby player
- 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
- 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
- 1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1980 – Eva Green, French actress
- 1980 – Jason Wade, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Lifehouse)
- 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
- 1981 – Jesse Crain, Canadian baseball player
- 1981 – Ryan Hansen, American actor
- 1981 – Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model
- 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
- 1982 – Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
- 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
- 1984 – Marion Trott, German skeleton racer
- 1984 – Danay Garcia, Cuban actress
- 1984 – Yu Yamada, Japanese Ryukyuan model, actress and singer
- 1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress
- 1985 – Nick O'Malley, British bassist (Arctic Monkeys)
- 1988 – Adriano Buzaid, Brazilian racing driver
- 1989 – Joseph King, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Canvas, Deadbeat Darling)
- 1989 – Sean O'Pry, American male supermodel
- 1989 – Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
- 1991 – Jason Dolley, American actor
Deaths
- 1316 – Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
- 1375 – Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
- 1507 – Crinitus, Florentine humanist (b. 1475)
- 1539 – Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
- 1666 – Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
- 1676 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
- 1715 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
- 1719 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-born British soldier (b. 1641)
- 1773 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
- 1826 – Sir Stamford Raffles, British statesman (b. 1782)
- 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
- 1859 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
- 1862 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
- 1863 – Lewis Addison Armistead, American Confederate General (b. 1817)
- 1884 – Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
- 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian novelist (b. 1833)
- 1920 – Max Klinger, German painter, sculptor and printmaker (b. 1857)
- 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1853)
- 1929 – Henry Lincoln Johnson, American member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), the first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
- 1932 – Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
- 1937 – Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1945 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
- 1948 – Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
- 1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor (b. 1873)
- 1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
- 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
- 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
- 1969 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
- 1969 – Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
- 1969 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
- 1983 – Harry James, American trumpeter (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Erik Wickberg, Swedish-born 9th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1904)
- 1997 – Mrs. Elva Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
- 2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
- 2004 – Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
- 2005 – James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (b. 1936)
- 2006 – Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoer (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2007 – George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Hasan Doğan, the 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian professional ice hockey forward. (b. 1965)
Holidays and observances
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