What are the important events that happened on July 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 5 is the 187th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 22, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,668,960 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontaheptagon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 208 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,214 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 5 Historical Events
- 1295 –Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called “Auld Alliance”, against England.
- 1687 –Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1770 –The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1809 –The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1940 –World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
- 1945 –World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
- 1970 –Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.
- 1971 –Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
- 1975 –Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 2009 –A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
Who were born on July 5?
- 1820 –William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
- 1891 –John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1922 –Bob Duffy, American basketball player
- 1943 –Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1945 –Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican politician and Attorney General of México
- 1950 –Michael Monarch, American guitarist (Steppenwolf)
- 1960 –Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer
- 1961 –Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
- 1963 –Mark Stockwell, Australian swimmer
- 1983 –Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
Who died on July 5?
- 1715 –Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
- 1719 –Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-born British soldier (b. 1641)
- 1826 –Sir Stamford Raffles, British statesman (b. 1782)
- 1833 –Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
- 1957 –Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor (b. 1873)
- 1969 –Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
- 1969 –Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
- 1983 –Harry James, American trumpeter (b. 1916)
- 2002 –Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2007 –George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
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