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
- 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.
- 1830 –France invades Algeria.
- 1878 –The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established.
- 1935 –The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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).
- 1945 –World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
- 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.
- 1951 –William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- 1975 –Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 1995 –Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after their independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1998 –Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 2004 –The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
- 2009 –A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
- 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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