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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 5
- 1316 –Battle of Manolada between the Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea
- 1610 –John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- 1687 –Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1809 –The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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.
- 1937 –Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
- 1940 –World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
- 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 –Zionism: the Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
- 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.
- 1973 –Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.
- 1977 –Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
- 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.
- 1995 –Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2004 –The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
- 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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