Historical Events on July 5

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• 649 St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 767 Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II

• 1166 Austrian town of Bad Kleinkirchheim is first mentioned, in an ecclesiastical document
• 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 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, captures 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)

• 1750 Slave revolt on Curacao
• 1770 Battles of Chesma and Larga between the Russian and Ottoman Empires

• 1791 Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver, British Columbia)


• 1803 The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king)
• 1807 Second Battle of Buenos Aires lost by invading British forces

• 1813 War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin
• 1814 Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
• 1830 France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
• 1834 Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
• 1841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
• 1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country

• 1859 Capt N C Brooks discovers Midway Islands
• 1861 Battle of Carthage, Missouri - US General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist
• 1863 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi
• 1864 Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia (Skirmish at Pace's Ferry) fought during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War
• 1864 Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
• 1865 Great Britain creates world's 1st speed limit law
• 1865 US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
• 1871 Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and 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
• 1887 Columbia University 4's crew becomes first American boat to win at London's Henley Regatta (Visitors Challenge Cup)
• 1891 Hail kills 16 horses in Rapid City, South Dakota
• 1900 Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
• 1902 All-rounder Monty Noble takes 6 for 52 as Australia wins the one and only cricket Test played at Sheffield's Bramall Lane, England
• 1904 NY Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 innings at Huntington Park
• 1906 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats May Sutton 6-3, 9-7 for her 3rd of 7 Wimbledon singles titles
• 1907 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year's defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4
• 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 MLB Boston Braves (26-40) are 15 games back in NL, go on to win World Series 4-0 vs Philadelphia A's
• 1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
• 1919 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Dorothea Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 for the first of 6 Wimbledon singles titles
• 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 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first all-French final Jean Borotra beats René Lacoste 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
• 1929 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In the first all-American final Helen Wills Moody beats Helen Jacobs 6-1, 6-2
• 1929 WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
• 1930 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats fellow American Wilmer Allison 6-3, 9-7, 6-4 for his 3rd and final Wimbledon singles crown
• 1932 António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the premier and dictator of Portugal (1932-1968), founding the authoritarian Estado Novo (New State) regime
• 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 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Fred Perry successfully defends his title against German Gottfried von Cramm 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
• 1935 Tony (Brooklyn Dodgers) and Al (NY Giants) Cuccinello become the first brothers to both hit a MLB homer in the same game, Dodgers win 14-4
• 1936 120°F (49°C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)
• 1937 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)

• 1937 Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
• 1937 Spam, the luncheon meat is first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation
• 1938 Herb Caen's 1st column in San Francisco Chronicle
• 1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and 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 World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared
• 1946 Louis Reard's design for a bikini swimsuit debuts at the Paris fashion show
• 1946 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Frenchman Yvon Petra beats Australian Geoff Brown 6-2, 6-4, 7-9, 5-7, 6-4 for his only Wimbledon title

• 1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 performances
• 1947 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne beats Doris Hart 6-2, 6-4 for her only Wimbledon singles title
• 1947 Cleveland Indians rookie Larry Doby becomes 1st black player in AL when he strikes out in 6-5 loss vs Chicago WS
• 1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins


• 1950 US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time, in the Battle of Osan
• 1950 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel

• 1952 "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
• 1952 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Louise Brough 7-5, 6-3 for the first of 3 straight Wimbledon crowns
• 1953 WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Phillies pitcher Robin Roberts hurls his 28th consecutive MLB complete game in a 2-0 win over Pittsburgh
• 1954 B-52A bomber makes its maiden flight
• 1954 The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• 1955 Six week old British dock strike ends as London dockers return to work
• 1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
• 1957 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad successfully defends in crown beating fellow Australian Ashley Cooper 6-2, 6-1, 6-2
• 1957 England cricket batsman Tom Graveney scores a brilliant 258 in the drawn 3rd Test v West Indies at Trent Bridge
• 1957 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: South African Bobby Locke wins his 4th Open by 3 strokes from defending champion Peter Thomson of Australia
• 1958 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Althea Gibson beats Angela Mortimer of England 8-6, 6-2 to successfully defend her title
• 1958 J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname
• 1958 First ascent of Gasherbrum I (Pakistani–Chinese border), 11th highest peak on earth
• 1958 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Australian Peter Thomson wins by 4 strokes in a 36-hole playoff with Welshman Dave Thomas, for his 4th Open title
• 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 Cardinals first baseman Bill White smashes 3 HRs & a double in 9-1 rout of LA Dodgers
• 1962 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
• 1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
• 1963 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87
• 1963 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Chuck McKinley wins his only Grand Slam singles title beating Fred Stolle of Australia 9-7, 6-1, 6-4
• 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 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to earn first ever prize money (£2,000) offered at Wimbledon

• 1969 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Rod Laver beats John Newcombe 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for the 3rd leg of his Grand Slam
• 1969 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park

• 1970 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
• 1970 20th Berlin International Film Festival cancelled due to controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven's anti-war film "o.k."
• 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 (speculation that they were killed by Loyalists because they had Catholic girlfriends)
• 1973 Isle of Man begins issuing its own postage stamps

• 1973 Test cricket debut of English umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds (66 Tests, 69 ODI)
• 1974 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert wins her first Wimbledon title beating Russian Olga Morzova 6-0, 6-4
• 1975 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American to win Wimbledon, beats countryman Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
• 1975 Cape Verde Islands gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule

• 1977 Pakistani 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 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Björn Borg beats John McEnroe 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6 for his 5th straight Wimbledon crown with famous 22-minute, 34-point, fourth-set tiebreak

• 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
• 1983 France invades Algeria
• 1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
• 1984 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials

• 1985 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
• 1986 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Hana Mandlíková 7-6, 6-3 for her 7th Wimbledon singles title
• 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74)

• 1987 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pat Cash of Australia scores his only Grand Slam singles success 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 over Ivan Lendl

• 1988 Wist Indies cricket paceman Malcolm Marshall takes career best 7-22, beat England by an innings & 156 at Old Trafford

• 1991 MLB owners approve Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins as new NL franchises to start play in 1993
• 1991 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1991 American jockey Ray Sibille wins his 3,000th career race, aboard Sporting Surf at Pleasanton, California
• 1992 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Andre Agassi wins his first of 8 Grand Slam singles titles beating Goran Ivanišević of Croatia 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4
• 1992 Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador

• 1993 Kurd guerrillas murder 32 villager in East Turkey
• 1993 Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)

• 1994 The United States announces it will no longer accept unrestricted immigration from Haiti

• 1994 "Cracked Rear View" debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish is released
• 1996 Angels score 3 top 1st, Oakland A's respond with 13 bottom 1st, highest-scoring 1st inning by 2 teams in MLB history, A's win 16-8


• 1997 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: 16 year old Swiss Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotná 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 to become the youngest Wimbledon winner in 110 years
• 1998 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras retains title; beats Goran Ivanišević 6-7, 7-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 for his 5th of 7 Wimbledon singles crowns

• 1998 NY Yankees beat Baltimore Orioles 1-0 to improve record to 61-20, equalling best 81-game start in MLB history
• 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 "contained" by the WHO
• 2003 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams successfully defends her title beating older sister Venus 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
• 2003 French driver Sébastien Bourdais wins first-ever night road-course event in Champ Car history on Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport layout
• 2004 First Indonesian presidential election by the people - first round (eventually won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)
• 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
• 2008 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams successfully defends her title beating younger sister Serena 7-5, 6-4
• 2009 Ethnic rioting breaks out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
• 2009 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick of the US 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14 for a record 15th Grand Slam singles title
• 2011 "Somebody That I Used to Know" single released by Gotye ft. Kimbra (Grammy Award Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Record of the Year 2013)
• 2012 Harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets a new North American record for wins when he drives Herculotte Hanover to the winner's circle for his 15,181st career victory
• 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

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