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July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1295 – Scotland and France create an alliance, known in Scotland as the "Auld Alliance".
1316 – The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
1601 – During the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish lay siege to Oostende.
1610 – John Guy sets sail of Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1687 – Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton is published.
1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa – American major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario, Canada.
1884 – Germany takes control of Cameroon and Togo.

1901 – 2000

1934 – Police shoot at striking longshoremen in San Francisco, California.
1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Food Corporation.
1940 – World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy Government of France break off diplomatic relations.
1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa – German troops reach the Dnieper River.
1943 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sets sail for Sicily.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kursk.
1945 – World War II: The Liberation of the Philippines is declared.
1946 – The Bikini is introduced in France.
1948 – The UK's NHS (National Health Service) is founded.
1950 – Korean War: Task Force Smith – American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
1950 – Zionism: The Israeli Knesset passes the Law of Return, which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
1954 – The BBC's first News bulletin is broadcast.
1954 – Elvis Presley records his first single – That's All Right – at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto, killing 109 people.
1971 – The US lowers its voting age from 21 to 18.
1975 – Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American men's singles Wimbledon champion.
1975 – Cape Verde becomes independent from Portugal.
1977 – Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is removed from power in a military coup.
1987 – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam use suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan army for the first time.
1989 – Iran-Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term.
1989 – The sitcom Seinfeld is first broadcast.
1991 – Nelson Mandela is chosen as President of the African National Congress.
1995 – Armenia adopts its Constitution.
1996 – The first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep is born.
1999 – President of the United States Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

From 2001

2002 – A bomb attack in Larbaa, Algeria, kills 50 people.
2003 – The SARS virus is declared contained by the WHO.
2006 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2.
2009 – At Wimbledon, Roger Federer wins his 15th Grand Slam singles Tennis title in a five-set match against Andy Roddick, breaking the men's record previously held by Pete Sampras.
2009 – Ethnic rioting occurs in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
2009 – The largest-known hoard of Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold ever is discovered, consisting of over 1,500 items, in Staffordshire, England.
2012 – Inauguration of The Shard in London – Britain's tallest, and Europe's second tallest, building.
2015 – The United States wins the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating Japan 5–2 in the final in Vancouver, Canada.
2016 – The Juno spacecraft enters into orbit around the planet Jupiter.
2024 – Keir Starmer has been the 58th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Births

Up to 1900

465 – Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Mayan ruler (d. 524)
1321 – Joan of the Tower, Queen of Scotland (d. 1362)
1547 – Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan nobleman (d. 1562)
1549 – Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal (d. 1627)
1554 – Elizabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592)
1580 – Carlo Contarini, 100th Doge of Venice (d. 1656)
1586 – Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (d. 1647)
1670 – Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (d. 1748)
1717 – King Peter III of Portugal (d. 1786)
1720 – Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1787)
1755 – Sarah Siddons, British theatre actress (d. 1831)
1780 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
1781 – Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
1791 – Samuel Bailey, British philosopher (d. 1870)
1801 – David Farragut, American admiral (d. 1870)
1802 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
1805 – Robert FitzRoy, British naval officer and meteorologist (d. 1865)
1810 – P. T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
1817 – Carl Vogt, German scientist, philosopher and politician (d. 1895)
1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician and engineer (d. 1872)
1829 – Ignacio Marisal, Mexican diplomat (d. 1910)
1832 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919)
1841 – William Collins Whitney, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
1845 – August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius, German ornithologist (d. 1912)
1849 – William Thomas Stead, English journalist (d. 1912)
1853 – Cecil Rhodes, British colonial politician (d. 1902)
1857 – Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933)
1860 – Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (d. 1919)
1872 – Edouard Herriot, Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
1879 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player (d. 1945)
1880 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
1882 – Inayat Khan, Indian educator (d. 1927)
1885 – Blas Infante, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
1886 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1988)
1888 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1963)
1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer, director and painter (d. 1963)
1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist (d. 1987)
1893 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1976)
1894 – Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and theatre director (d. 1973)
1898 – Georgios Grivas, Greek army officer (d. 1974)
1899 – Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter and writer (d. 1974)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American colonel and politician (d. 1985)
1903 – Bernardus Jan Alfrink, Dutch cardinal and Archbishop of Utrecht (d. 1987)
1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
1907 – Ethel Smith, Canadian athlete (d. 1979)
1907 – Yang Shangkun, President of China (d. 1998)
1908 – Henri, Count of Paris (d. 1999)
1911 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
1911 – Giorgio Borg Olivier, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
1914 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
1915 – John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
1918 – Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (d. 2010)
1919 – Bep Voskuijl, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1983)
1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2013)
1924 – Janos Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
1925 – Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian sculptor (d. 2018)
1925 – Jean Raspail, French writer and explorer
1926 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
1926 – Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
1926 – Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (d. 2016)
1927 – Thomas Fleming, American novelist (d. 2017)
1927 – Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
1928 – Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
1928 – Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
1928 – Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist
1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019)
1932 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
1932 – Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
1933 – Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgian mathematician (d. 2016)
1934 – Yoshio Furukawa, Japanese football player
1935 – Brendan McCann, American basketball player
1935 – Michael Wenning, American minister (d. 2011)
1936 – Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
1936 – Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
1939 – Pavel Morozenko, Soviet movie and theatre actor (d. 1991)
1940 – James Herbert Brennan, Irish writer
1940 – Chuck Close, American painter, artist and photographer
1941 – Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian politician
1942 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016)
1945 – Michael Blake, American writer (d. 2015)
1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist
1946 – Giuseppe Furino, Italian footballer
1946 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, 24th Premier of Quebec
1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer

1951 – 1975

1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith)
1954 – Don Stark, American actor
1955 – Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
1955 – Mia Couto, Mozambican writer
1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
1956 – Horacio Cartes, President of Paraguay
1956 – Terry Chimes, English drummer
1957 – Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1958 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996)
1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
1962 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
1964 – Piotr Nowak, Polish footballer
1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
1967 – Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Iraq
1968 – Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer
1968 – Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
1968 – Nardwuar, Canadian interviewer and musician
1969 – Michael O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1969 – RZA, American rapper, producer, actor and director
1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper
1971 – Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
1971 – Nicola Stephenson, English actress
1972 – Nia Roberts, Welsh actress
1973 – Marcus Allback, Swedish footballer
1973 – Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
1973 – Spencer Kelly, English technology journalist
1975 – Hernán Crespo, Argentine footballer

From 1976

1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
1976 – Bizarre, American rapper
1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
1977 – Royce da 5'9'', American rapper
1978 – Allan Simonsen, Danish racing driver (d. 2013)
1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1980 – Eva Green, French actress
1980 – Zayed Khan, Indian actor
1980 – Hannes Reichelt, Austrian skier
1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
1981 – Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model and actress
1981 – Ryan Hansen, American actor
1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
1982 – Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
1982 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer
1982 – Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lady Antebellum)
1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
1984 – Zack Miller, American golfer
1984 – Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress and singer
1985 – Nick O'Malley, English bass player (Arctic Monkeys)
1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress
1985 – Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player
1986 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
1986 – Samuel Honrubia, French handball player
1986 – Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player
1986 – Adam Young, American singer-songwriter and musician (Owl City)
1989 – Charlie Austin, English footballer
1989 – Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
1989 – Hiroyuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1991 – Jason Dolley, American actor
1992 – Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
1995 – Giovanni Simeone, Argentine footballer
1996 – Dolly the Sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003)

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Deaths

Up to 1900

967 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
1080 – Isleifur Gissurarson, Bishop of Iceland and Greenland (b. 1006)
1316 – Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
1539 – Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
1572 – Longqing Emperor of China (b. 1537)
1666 – Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
1676 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish commander and politician (b. 1613)
1773 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1816 – Dorothea Jordan, Irish actress and mistress to King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761)
1819 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b. 1744)
1826 – Stamford Raffles, British colonial statesman, founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and photography pioneer (b. 1765)
1859 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
1863 – Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
1875 – Maria Röhl, Swedish artist (b. 1801)

1901 – 2000

1904 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (b. 1833)
1911 – Maria Pia of Savoy (b. 1847)
1920 – Max Klinger, artist (b. 1857)
1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
1937 – Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
1945 – John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1948 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
1948 – Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor (b. 1873)
1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
1969 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908)
1983 – Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)
1991 – Howard Nemerov, poet (b. 1920)
1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)

From 2001

2001 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b. 1933)
2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
2002 – Ted Williams, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
2003 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
2004 – Hugh Shearer, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2004 – Rodger Ward, auto racer (b. 1921)
2007 – George Melly, British singer (b. 1926)
2008 – René Harris, President of Nauru (b. 1947)
2010 – Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
2010 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian-Dutch academic (b. 1943)
2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
2010 – David Fanshawe, British composer (b. 1942)
2011 – Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
2012 – Gerrit Komrij, Dutch writer, poet and playwright (b. 1944)
2013 – David Cargo, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
2014 – Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian church leader (b. 1935)
2014 – Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
2015 – Sakari Momoi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2015 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist (b. 1921)
2016 – William L. Armstrong, American politician (b. 1937)
2016 – Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist (b. 1914)
2016 – Valentino Zeichen, Italian poet and writer (b. 1938)
2017 – Pierre Henry, French composer (b. 1927)
2017 – Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (b. 1933)
2017 – Willi Reschke, German military officer (b. 1922)
2017 – John Rodriguez, Guyanese-born Canadian politician (b. 1937)
2017 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet (b. 1954)
2017 – Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (b. 1944)
2018 – François Budet, French singer-songwriter and novelist (b. 1940)
2018 – Adamu Ciroma, Nigerian politician and banker (b. 1934)
2018 – Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925)
2018 – Ed Schultz, American television-radio personality and political commentator (b. 1954)
2018 – Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (b. 1943)
2020 – Nick Cordero, Canadian actor (b. 1978)

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Observances

Independence Day in Venezuela (1811), Algeria (1962), and Cape Verde (1975)
Constitution Day in Armenia
Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)

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