Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. 1687 - Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published. 1803 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king). 1811 - Venezuela is the first South American country to declare independence from Spain. 1813 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin. 1814 - War of 1812: Battle Of Chippawa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario. 1830 - France invades Algeria. 1865 - William Booth founds the Christian Mission (later renamed to the Salvation Army). 1865 - The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in Great Britain. 1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon. 1937 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 °C. 1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations. 1941 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins. 1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails to Sicily. 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared. 1946 - The bikini is introduced. 1948 - British National Health Service Act enacted. 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces. 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. 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. 1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest 1962 - Algeria becomes independent from France. 1970 - An Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108 1971 - Right to vote: The voting age in the United States is reduced to 18 from 21 (provision of the 26th Amendment formally certified by President Richard Nixon on this day). 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. 1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. 1986 - The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing. 1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. 2003 - Taiwan is the last territory to be removed from the WHO's list of SARS affected areas. Births 1781 - Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore 1794 - Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham cracker (+ 1851) 1810 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, circus owner (+ 1891) 1853 - Cecil Rhodes, South African politician (+ 1902) 1865 - Hans Ziemann, physician (+ 1939) 1880 - Jan Kubelík, violinist (+ 1940) 1886 - Willem Drees, prime minister of the Netherlands 1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, psychologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 (+ 1963) 1889 - Jean Cocteau, writer (+ 1963) 1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, U.S. diplomat during the Vietnam War 1909 - Andrei Gromyko, president of the Soviet Union 1911 - Georges Pompidou, president of France (+ 1974) 1941 - Barbara Frischmuth, writer 1944 - Robbie Robertson, guitarist 1950 - Michael Monarch, guitarist 1950 - Huey Lewis, rock and roll musician 1958 - Bill Watterson, cartoonist 1963 - Edie Falco, actress, The Sopranos 1996 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal Deaths 1681 - Feodor Aleksejevitch, tsar of Russia 1920 - Max Klinger, artist 1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, inventor 1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini in World War II 1983 - Harry James, Big Band musician 1998 - Sid Luckman, Hall of Fame football player 2001 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) 2002 - Ted Williams, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and player for the Boston Red Sox. Holidays and observances Algeria: Independence Day (1962) Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975) Isle of Man: Tynwald Day (Parliament Day) (1266) Venezuela: Independence Day (1811) Church of the SubGenius: X-Day (1998) See Also: July 4 - July 6 - June 5 - August 5 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.