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- 1054 A minor star in the constellation Taurus explodes July 5 in a supernova that is visible by daylight for 23 days and remains visible at night for another 633 days, an event recorded by pictographs in China and in the Western Hemisphere
- 1295 Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.
- 1610 John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- 1643 First recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
- 1687 Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
- 1758 Lake George New York, General James Abercromby leaves the ruins of Fort William Henry at the head of Lake George to attack the French at Fort Carillon; army of 6,000 British regulars, and almost 9000 provincials from New England, New York and New Jersey, embarks in hundreds of batteaux and whale boats.
- 1770 Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1775 US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 1791 Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC
- 1803 The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
- 1808 Battle of Buenos Aires
- 1809 Battle of Wagram starts, the two-day battle was the largest yet of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1809 Napoleon annexes the Papal States Pope Pius VII is taken prisoner July 5 and will remain in custody until 1814
- 1809 The Battle of Wagram ends in victory for the French but at a terrible cost: 23,000 French soldiers killed or wounded, 7,000 missing out of a 181,700-man army that includes 29,000 cavalrymen, while the Austrian army of 181,700 (4,600 cavalrymen) is forced to retreat after losing 19,110 killed or wounded, 6,740 missing
- 1811 Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
- 1811 Venezuela, first South American country to gain independence from Spain
- 1813 War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
- 1822 Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales is formed.
- 1830 France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
- 1833 Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1834 Provisional government established in Oregon Country
- 1841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
- 1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil govt in Oregon Country
- 1859 Capt NC Brooks discovers Midway Islands
- 1861 Engagement at Carthage, Missouri
- 1865 The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
- 1865 The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in England.
- 1865 William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
- 1878 The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established.
- 1884 Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
- 1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
- 1900 Sgt. Arthur H.L. Richardson (Cdn.) (Strathcona's Horse) wins the Vicotria Cross at Wolve Spruit South Africa
- 1919 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his first of 72 times
- 1929 A Deutsch discovers asteroid #1148 Rarahu
- 1930 Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but his turtle survives.
- 1932 Oliveira Salazar becomes dictator of fascist Portugal
- 1934 "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- 1935 First Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast
- 1935 Pres Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act
- 1935 The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1936 120ø F (49ø C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)
- 1937 117ø F (47ø C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
- 1937 Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 C.
- 1937 Joe DiMaggio's first grand slammer
- 1937 Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
- 1937 Yellow Grass Saskatchewan, the temperature at Yellow Grass reaches 45C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, 110F+.
- 1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
- 1940 HMS WHIRLWIND, sunk in the North Atlantic 120 miles west of Lands End, south west England 1 torpedo from German U-34.
- 1942 Port Hope Ontario, Ian Fleming the first graduate of the Special 25 training school for spies; later member of MI5, creator of James Bond novels.
- 1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, starts with a German tank attack on Soviet forces.
- 1943 World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
- 1944 Harry Crosby takes first rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
- 1945 Australian Prime Minister John Curtin dies in office
- 1945 Death of Prime Minister John Curtin
- 1946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show
- 1946 The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.
- 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 Britain's National Health Service Act begins
- 1948 British National Health Service Act enacted.
- 1950 Esquimalt BC Royal Canadian Navy destroyers HMCS Cayuga, Athabaskan, and Sioux leave Esquimalt for Pearl Harbor escorted by cruiser Ontario; to come under UN control during Korean War.
- 1950 Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces.
- 1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
- 1950 Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
- 1951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
- 1951 William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- 1953 Visitor posting - Gene Steele and Patsy Porter are married, Lincoln NE - USA
- 1954 Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
- 1954 Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll.
- 1954 The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- 1958 First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
- 1962 Algeria becomes independent from France.
- 1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
- 1963 First Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87
- 1966 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
- 1968 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
- 1969 Rod Laver wins his 4th Wimbeldon championship
- 1969 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
- 1970 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
- 1970 Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108 people.
- 1970 An Air Canada DC-8 en route from Montreal to Los Angeles makes a heavy landing at Malton AIrport, bounces and loses one starboard engine; in the pilot's attempt to take off and land again the other starboard engine falls off and the aircraft crashes 10 km west of Malton (Pearson International Airport) ; all 109 aboard killed.
- 1971 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)
- 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 "Live & Let Die," James Bond film premiers
- 1973 Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
- 1973 Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
- 1975 Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- 1975 Arthur Ashe wins men's single championship at Wimbeldon
- 1975 Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
- 1975 Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 1977 Military coup in Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto the very first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan overthrown.
- 1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
- 1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
- 1982 An Oklahoma City bank goes into receivership. Its receiver, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., begins paying off $271 million in insured deposits as examiners uncover a morass of bad loans to wildcat drillers and others made by Penn Square, based in a shopping center
- 1982 NBC's experiment in late-night news programming, NBC News Overnight, debuts.
- 1983 In Turkey a 6.1 quake resulted in 5 people killed and 25 injured in the Biga area
- 1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)
- 1985 117ø F (47ø C), St George, Utah (state rec) (103ø spread, UT 1985)
- 1985 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of the globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
- 1986 Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
- 1986 Visitor posting - Todd Andrew Oakland is born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- 1987 Australian Pat Cash wins men's singles at Wimbledon
- 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.
- 1989 Visitor posting - July 5 1989 My amazing brother, Siah, was born
- 1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out
- 1991 Ottawa seizes Bank of Credit and Commerce Canada's assets and closes all four branches; result of international money-laundering investigation.
- 1994 A report of provincial inquiry says Montreal police force poorly supervised, badly trained and racist.
- 1998 Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 2003 SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.
- 2004 First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
- 2006 Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
- 2006 North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
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