July 5

July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining.

Jun - July - Aug
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
2004 day arrangement
All days

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 Recorded this date

Events

1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1687 - Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.
1803 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
1811 - Venezuela is the first South American country to declare 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 Chippewa, Ontario.
1830 - France invades Algeria.
1865 - William Booth founds the Christian Mission (later renamed to the Salvation Army).
1865 - The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in England.
1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
1937 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 °C.
1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
1941 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins.
1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails to Sicily.
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
1946 - The bikini is introduced.
1948 - British National Health Service Act enacted.
1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces.
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 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest
1962 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
1970 - An Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108
1971 - Right to vote: The voting age in the United States is reduced to 18 from 21 (provision of the 26th Amendment formally certified by President Richard Nixon on this day).
1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
1986 - The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing.
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.
1994 - The United States announced it would be refusing entry to further unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
2003 - Taiwan is the last territory to be removed from the WHO's list of SARS affected areas.
2004 - First Indonesian presidential election, 2004 by the nation.
2004 - Eric Gagne's consecutive saves streak comes to an end at 84.

Births

1781 - Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore
1794 - Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham cracker (d. 1851)
1810 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, circus owner (d. 1891)
1853 - Cecil Rhodes, South African politician (d. 1902)
1865 - Hans Ziemann, physician (d. 1939)
1880 - Jan Kubelík, violinist (d. 1940)
1886 - Willem Drees, prime minister of the Netherlands
1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, psychologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 (d. 1963)
1889 - Jean Cocteau, writer (d. 1963)
1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, U.S. diplomat during the Vietnam War
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, president of the Soviet Union
1911 - Georges Pompidou, president of France (d. 1974)
1932 - Billy Laughlin, actor
1934 - Katherine Helmond, actress
1936 - Shirley Knight, actress
1941 - Barbara Frischmuth, writer
1944 - Robbie Robertson, guitarist
1950 - Michael Monarch, guitarist
1950 - Huey Lewis, rock and roll musician
1951 - Rich Gossage, baseball pitcher
1958 - Bill Watterson, cartoonist
1963 - Edie Falco, actress, The Sopranos
1969 - John LeClair, American NHL star
1976 - Nuno Gomes, football player
1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, actress
1996 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal

Deaths

1681 - Feodor Aleksejevitch, tsar of Russia
1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, famous Kazakh poet
1920 - Max Klinger, artist
1945 - John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia
1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor
1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini in World War II
1983 - Harry James, Big Band musician
1998 - Sid Luckman, Hall of Fame football player
2001 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide)
2002 - Ted Williams, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and player for the Boston Red Sox (b. 1918)
2004 - Rodger Ward, auto racer, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

Algeria: Independence Day (1962)
Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975)
Isle of Man: Tynwald Day (1266)
Venezuela: Independence Day (1811)
Church of the SubGenius: X-Day (1998)

Recorded this date

"Follow That Dream" (Fred Wise & Ben Weisman)
- Elvis Presley

July 4 - July 6 - June 5 - August 5 -- listing of all days

[he:5 ביולי]]