About July 5
July 5, 2025 is the 186th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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.
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What Happened On July 5
- 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 Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 1951 –William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- 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.
- 1977 –Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
- 1998 –Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 1999 –U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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