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
• 1775 Second Continental Congress drafts the Olive Branch Petition to King George III
• 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

• 1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain
• 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
• 1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, San Diego
• 1900 Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
• 1902 Australia wins the one and only Test Cricket match played at Sheffield's Bramall Lane, England
• 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 Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats M Bundy (6-3 9-7)
• 1906 30th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats Frank Riseley (6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3)
• 1907 24th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: May Bundy beats Dorothea Chambers (6-1 6-4)
• 1907 31st Wimbledon Men's 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, and win World Series
• 1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia


• 1919 32nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 4-6 9-7)

• 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 Men's Tennis: Jean Borotra beats R Lacoste (6-1 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-4)
• 1929 42nd Wimbledon Women's 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 Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (6-3 9-7 6-4)
• 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 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 55th Wimbledon Men's 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 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 bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show

• 1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 performances
• 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 and Henry Thompson, their 1st African American players
• 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
• 1951 Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant)

• 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 makes 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 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 Tom Graveney of England scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge
• 1957 85th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at St Andrews
• 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 (Pakistani–Chinese border), 11th highest peak on 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 Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (6-3 6-4 6-2)
• 1968 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce

• 1969 83rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats John 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
• 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 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 Jimmy Connors (61 61 57 64)
• 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 87th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats Chris 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, 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 93rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Hannah Mandlikova (76 63)
• 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74)

• 1987 101st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (7-6 6-2 7-5)

• 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 Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East

• 1991 Colorado Rockies andFlorida Marlins given final approval by owners
• 1991 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 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 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 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 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 Women's Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
• 1997 NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre
• 1998 112th Wimbledon Men's 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 "contained" by the WHO
• 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.

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