Notable Historical Events on July 5th
July 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
649 |
St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
767 |
Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II |
1294 |
Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V |
1295 |
Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. |
1436 |
German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten |
1450 |
Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster |
1596 |
English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz |
1610 |
John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. |
1626 |
Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated |
1643 |
1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts) |
1687 |
Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation. |
1750 |
Slave revolt on Curacao |
1770 |
Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. |
1775 |
US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. |
1791 |
Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC) |
1803 |
The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king). |
1808 |
Battle of Buenos Aires |
1809 |
-6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles |
1811 |
Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain |
1813 |
War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin. |
1814 |
Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario |
1830 |
France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest |
1832 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro |
1834 |
Provisional government forms in Oregon Country |
1841 |
Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency |
1843 |
Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country |
1852 |
Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester in which he condemns the celebration as a hypocritical sham in a land where slavery still exists |
1859 |
Capt N C Brooks discovers Midway Islands |
1861 |
Battle of Carthage, MO - US Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessionist |
1863 |
Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS |
1864 |
Battle of Smith's Expedition, MS (Tupelo, Harrisburg) |
1865 |
Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws |
1865 |
US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department |
1871 |
Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins |
1878 |
The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established. |
1884 |
German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon |
1884 |
US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act |
1891 |
Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD |
1900 |
Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber |
1902 |
Australia won the one & only Test Cricket played at Sheffield |
1904 |
Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn |
1904 |
4th Davis Cup: British Isles beats Belgium in Wimbledon (5-0) |
1906 |
23rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats M Bundy (6-3 9-7) |
1906 |
30th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats F Riseley (6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3) |
1907 |
24th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: May Bundy beats D Chambers (6-1 6-4) |
1907 |
31st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Norman Brookes beats Arthur Gore (6-4 6-2 6-2) |
1908 |
Niazi Bey, a chief organizer of the revolutionary movement in Turkey, raises the standard of revolt at Resna, Macedonia |
1913 |
Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra |
1914 |
Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series |
1914 |
Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia |
1919 |
32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 4-6 9-7) |
1919 |
Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times |
1922 |
1st general election in Netherlands |
1922 |
Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro |
1922 |
Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win |
1924 |
Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil |
1924 |
44th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jean Borotra beats R Lacoste (6-1 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-4) |
1929 |
42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-1 6-2) |
1929 |
WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down |
1930 |
50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (6-3 9-7 6-4) |
1932 |
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal |
1933 |
German party Catholic Center disbands |
1934 |
"Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. |
1935 |
1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast |
1935 |
1st time brothers on opposing teams hit HRs, Tony & Al Cuccunello |
1935 |
Chicago Cubs are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant |
1935 |
FDR signs National Labor Relations Act |
1935 |
55th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats G von Cramm (6-2 6-4 6-4) |
1936 |
120°F (49°C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record) |
1937 |
117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record) |
1937 |
Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game & 2 in 2nd game |
1937 |
Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer |
1937 |
Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain |
1937 |
Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. |
1938 |
Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle |
1940 |
Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy government in France |
1941 |
German occupiers disband political parties |
1942 |
1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11 |
1942 |
Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada |
1943 |
Battle of Gulf of Kula |
1943 |
Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks) |
1943 |
Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye |
1943 |
US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily |
1944 |
Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight |
1945 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
1945 |
World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared. |
1946 |
Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show |
1946 |
75th British Golf Open: Sam Snead shoots a 290 at St Andrews |
1947 |
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 perfs |
1947 |
54th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (6-2 6-4) |
1947 |
Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL |
1948 |
Britain's National Health Service Act begins |
1949 |
NY Giants purchase Monty Irvin & Henry Thompson, their 1st African American players |
1950 |
Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel |
1951 |
Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant) |
1951 |
Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ) |
1952 |
"Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances |
1952 |
59th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (7-5 6-3) |
1953 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1953 |
WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
B-52A bomber made its maiden flight |
1954 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days |
1954 |
The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin. |
1955 |
English harbor strike ends |
1956 |
France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria |
1957 |
71st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (6-2 6-1 6-2) |
1957 |
Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge |
1958 |
65th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (8-6 6-2) |
1958 |
J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname |
1958 |
First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth. |
1959 |
Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns |
1959 |
Indonesia restores constitution |
1959 |
Jack Gelber's "Connection" premieres in NYC |
1960 |
Mongolia adopts constitution |
1961 |
80 die in collisions in Algiers |
1961 |
KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double |
1962 |
96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria |
1962 |
Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule |
1962 |
Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers |
1963 |
1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87 |
1966 |
NYC transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents |
1966 |
National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting |
1966 |
Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy |
1967 |
Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme |
1968 |
"Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague |
1968 |
82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (6-3 6-4 6-2) |
1968 |
John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce |
1968 |
Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers |
1969 |
83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64) |
1969 |
Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park |
1970 |
25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
1970 |
Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 |
1971 |
26th amendment to the US constitution certified (reduces voting age to 18) |
1971 |
Simon Gray's "Butley" premieres in London |
1972 |
Pierre Messmer appointed French premier |
1972 |
Two Protestant brothers are found shot dead outside of Belfast (There was speculation that they were killed by Loyalists because they had Catholic girlfriends) |
1973 |
"Live & Let Die" James Bond film premieres |
1973 |
Isle of Man begins issuing its own postage stamps |
1973 |
Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda following military coup |
1973 |
Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds |
1974 |
81st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64) |
1975 |
89th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64) |
1975 |
Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule |
1977 |
Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power |
1978 |
Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
87th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats Chrissie Evert (61 76) |
1980 |
94th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86) |
1981 |
9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson |
1981 |
Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections |
1981 |
Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas |
1982 |
ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol v Malay |
1983 |
France invades Algeria |
1983 |
NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team |
1983 |
Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA) |
1984 |
Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials |
1985 |
Premier Robert Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections |
1985 |
Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min |
1986 |
93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63) |
1986 |
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74) |
1986 |
Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon, reopening Statue of Liberty after refurbishment |
1987 |
101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (7-6 6-2 7-5) |
1987 |
As' Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break |
1987 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1988 |
Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93 |
1989 |
Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408 |
1989 |
Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner) |
1989 |
Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out |
1989 |
South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
1989 |
Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East |
1990 |
Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals |
1991 |
Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by owners |
1991 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1991 |
Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins) |
1992 |
106th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64) |
1992 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1992 |
Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador |
1993 |
As' Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader |
1993 |
Kurd guerrillas murder 32 villager in East Turkey |
1993 |
Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91) |
1994 |
Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma |
1994 |
US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back |
1994 |
The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti. |
1995 |
Columbia University beats Hartferd College to be 1st US team to win the Henley Regatta |
1996 |
A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels |
1996 |
NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves |
1997 |
104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna |
1997 |
NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre |
1998 |
53rd US Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI |
1998 |
112th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats G Ivanišević (6-7 7-6 6-4 3-6 6-2) |
2001 |
Australia and East Timor sign an agreement to share royalties from oil and natural gas production in the Timor Sea, which separates the two countries |
2003 |
SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO. |
2004 |
First Indonesian presidential election by the nation. |
2006 |
North Korea missle tests: at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile. |
2006 |
Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting at the U.N in New York City because of North Korean missile tests that day |
2009 |
Ethnic rioting broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China |
2009 |
116th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams (7-6 6-2) |
2009 |
123rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14), winning a record 15th Grand Slam titles |
2012 |
The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened in London, at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) |
2012 |
South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales |
2012 |
Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities |
2013 |
15 people are killed by a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraq |
2016 |
Kevin Durant to Join the Golden State Warriors |
2016 |
NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit |
2017 |
Joey Chestnut wins his 10th Nathan's hot dog contest |
2018 |
Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut gobbles 74 hotdogs, setting new world record at Nathan's contest |
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