About July 5
July 5, 2024 is the 187th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 208 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 5
- 1687 –Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1770 –The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1803 –The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
- 1814 –War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- 1937 –Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
- 1941 –World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
- 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.
- 1951 –William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- 1954 –The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
- 1954 –The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- 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.
- 1975 –Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 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 the tactic to deadly effect.
- 1996 –Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- 2004 –The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
- 2009 –A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
- 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.
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