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
- 1295 –Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called “Auld Alliance”, against England.
- 1770 –The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1809 –The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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.
- 1830 –France invades Algeria.
- 1884 –Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
- 1945 –World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
- 1948 –National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom
- 1962 –The Late Late Show, the world’s longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
- 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.
- 1975 –Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 1995 –Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 –U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
- 2004 –The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
- 2006 –North Korea launches at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
- 2009 –Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam title in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
- 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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