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
- 1295 –Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called “Auld Alliance”, against England.
- 1610 –John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- 1687 –Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1775 –The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 1803 –The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
- 1865 –The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
- 1937 –Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 1998 –Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 2006 –North Korea launches at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
- 2009 –A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
- 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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