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.
- 1814 –War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- 1833 –Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1865 –The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
- 1935 –The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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).
- 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 –Korean War: Task Force Smith – First clash between American and North Korean forces in the Battle of Osan.
- 1950 –Zionism: the Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
- 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.
- 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 –Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- 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.
- 2009 –Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam title in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
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