About July 5
July 5, 2021 is the 186th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 211 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 5
- 1687 –Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1811 –Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
- 1950 –Korean War: Task Force Smith – First clash between American and North Korean forces in the Battle of Osan.
- 1954 –The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
- 1954 –The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- 1962 –Algeria becomes independent from France.
- 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.
- 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. His convictions are later overturned.
- 1996 –Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- 1999 –U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
- 1999 –Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms which include a tornado. The area is hit again with severe storms on August 1.
- 2009 –A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
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