July 5

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 5. From 1900 until now. July 5 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Tuba Buyukustun (1982), Eva Green (1980) and Eva Green (1980). Several movies were released around July 5 over the years, such as Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon in 1995 directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto and The Secret World of Arrietty in 2010 directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
But much more happened on July 5 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Isle of Man: Tynwald Day (1266).
Venezuela: Independence Day (1811).
Algeria: Independence Day (1962).
Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975).
Church of the SubGenius: X-Day (1998).
Armenia: Constitution Day (1995)
Czech Republic and Slovakia: Arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia (around 863).
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2019 2019 Reyhanlı car bombing: A car bomb explodes in the Turkish city of Reyhanlı. The blast kills three Syrian citizens who were inside the car. (Daily Sabah)
2018 Fireworks accidents and incidents: Two explosions at fireworks workshops in Tultepec, Mexico, kill at least 19 people, including rescue workers, and injure dozens more. Tultepec is home to a major fireworks industry. (Reuters)
2017 Mexican Drug War: A gunfight between La Línea gang members and a rival cartel in Madera Municipality, Chihuahua, leaves at least 14 people dead. (The Washington Post)
2016 Iraqi Civil War: Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, advance north towards ISIL-held Qayyarah Airfield West south of Mosul. (Reuters)The United Nations reports a mortar attack on a camp for displaced Iraqis south of Baghdad kills three people, including two children, and injures 13 others, two critically. (The New York Times)
2015 American-led intervention in Syria: A United States bombing campaign against ISIL has killed at least 30 people in the Syrian city of Al-Raqqah. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
2014 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine: Ukrainian forces recapture the pro-Russian armed separatists' main strongholds of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk after the separatists defending it escaped an encirclement. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2013 Islamist gunmen stage multiple attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula with one soldier and five policemen reported dead. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011–present)
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 Australia celebrates indigenous culture with NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.(ABC)(NAIDOC)
2009 A series of violent riots break out in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
2008 In rugby union, New Zealand defeat World Cup winners South Africa 19ndash8 in the opening match of the Tri Nations. (''The International Herald Tribune'')
2007 Scientists announce the discovery of a new species of cephalopod, dubbed 'octosquid', found off the coast of Hawaii. (Star Bulletin)
2006 North Korea launches at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
2005 The Al Jazeera Network states it will be expanding by broadcasting English language content into the United States by March 2006. (CNN)
2004 Australia and Thailand sign a free trade agreement. (Xinhua)
2003 Second Chechen War: At least 16 people are killed and 40 injured by two female suicide bombers in an attack at Krylya, a popular music festival, at the Tushino airfield near Moscow. The Russian authorities blame an on-going terrorism campaign by Chechen rebels; the Chechen government denies any connection to the attacks. (BBC)
2002 Recent celebrity deaths: Ted Williams, baseball player, aged 83.
1999 U.S. Army Pfc. Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep at Fort Campbell, Kentucky by fellow soldiers; he dies the next day from his injuries.
1998 Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
1997 104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
1996 Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
1995 Columbia University beats Hartford College to be 1st US to win Henley Regatta
1994 Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
1993 Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
1992 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
1991 Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins given final approval by owners
1990 Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbeldon semi-finals.
1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out
1988 Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93
1987 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
1986 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
1985 Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old exclusionary rule-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1983 France invades Algeria
1982 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1981 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
1980 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan.
1977 Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
1975 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
1974 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
1973 Live & Let Die, James Bond film premieres
1972 Pierre Messmer appointed French Premier
1971 US 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18).
1970 Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.
1969 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
1968 Manifest of 1000 words published in Prague
1967 Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
1966 New York City transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
1963 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon From Me to You at #87
1962 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
1961 80 die in collisions in Algiers
1960 Mongolia adopts constitution
1959 Indonesia restores constitution
1958 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
1957 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1955 English harbor strike ends
1954 B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1953 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1952 Of Thee I Sing closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1951 Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)
1950 Private Kenneth Shadrick of West Virginia becomes first US fatality in Korean War.
1949 New York Giants purchase Monty Irvin and Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks
1948 National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom
1947 Barefoot Boy with Cheek closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 performances
1946 The bikini is re-introduced in Paris, France (it was a Roman invention).
1945 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1944 Harry Crosby takes first rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight.
1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1941 German occupiers disband political parties
1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Great Britain and Vichy government in France.
1938 The Non-Intervention Committee reaches an agreement to withdraw all foreign volunteers from the Spanish Civil War. The agreement is respected by most Republican foreign volunteers, notably by those from England and the United States, but is ignored by the governments of Germany and Italy.
1937 Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game and 2 in 2nd game
1936 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record hot).
1935 1st Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast
1934 ''Bloody Thursday'' : Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1933 German party Catholic Center disbands
1932 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes Premier / Dictator of Portugal
1930 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
1929 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
1924 Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil
1922 1st general election in the Netherlands
1919 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1913 Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra
1904 Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
1900 Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
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