Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 5
This is a list of selected July 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man; | no footnotes |
| ; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia | needs more footnotes |
| Independence Day in Algeria (1962), Cape Verde (1975) and Venezuela (1811) | all: refimprove section |
| 1687 – The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation. | refimprove section |
| 1934 – Police in San Francisco opened fire on a crowd longshoremen who had been on strike for nearly two months, killing three. | refimprove section |
| 1950 – The Israeli Knesset enacted the Law of Return, granting Jews around the world the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship. | refimprove section |
| 1954 – BBC News aired its first televised news broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. | date not in citation given |
| 1962 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, aired on Irish television for the first time. | unreferenced section |
| 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg won his fifth Wimbledon final and became the first male player in the Open Era to win the championships five times in a row. | refimprove section |
| 1987 – The Black Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam made its first suicide bombing against the Sri Lanka Army in Nelliady, Sri Lanka. | accuracy, unreferenced section |
| 1989 – United States National Security Council member Oliver North was sentenced for his part in the Iran–Contra affair. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1865 – Royal assent was given to an Act of Parliament allowing the Talyllyn Railway to carry passengers by steam haulage – the first narrow-gauge railway in Britain to do so from the start.
- 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
- 1950 – Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces, the unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army task force was routed.
- 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections, which resulted in the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of Indonesia after the second round on September 20.
- 2006 – The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting hours after North Korea reportedly tested at least seven separate ballistic missiles.
- 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, was found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire.
- 2009 – A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.
- Born/died: Nicéphore Niépce (d. 1833) · Sophie Wyss (b. 1897) · Megan Rapinoe (b. 1985)
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- 1594 – The Portuguese governor of Ceylon Pedro Lopes de Sousa began a failed attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Kandy.
- 1775 – The Second Continental Congress of Britain's Thirteen Colonies adopted the Olive Branch Petition in the hopes of avoiding war with Great Britain.
- 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.
- 1948 – Aneurin Bevan, the Health Minister of the United Kingdom, launched the National Health Service, one of the major social reforms following the Second World War.
- 2012 – The Shard (pictured) in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 m (1,020 ft), but was surpassed by Moscow's Mercury City Tower four months later.
Sarah Siddons (b. 1755) · W. T. Stead (b. 1849) · Albrecht Kossel (d. 1927)