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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Pieces discovered at the Staffordshire Hoard site -
A sword hilt fitting, gold with cloisonné garnet inlay, from the Staffordshire Hoard (soil can be seen on the object as it has not yet been cleaned by conservators) -
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Björn Borg on the tennis court -
Isaac Newton
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man; | no footnotes |
| and Venezuela (1811) | too many pictures |
| 1775 – The Second Continental Congress of Britain's Thirteen Colonies adopted the Olive Branch Petition in the hopes of avoiding war with Great Britain. | unreferenced section |
| 1934 – Police opened fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. | refimprove |
| 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend. | cleanup |
| 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. | multiple issues |
| 1954 – BBC News aired its first televised news broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. | date needs to be verified |
| 1962 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, aired on Irish television for the first time. | expansion |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1950 – Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces, the unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army task force was routed.
- 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état.
- 1989 – United States National Security Council member Oliver North was sentenced for his part in the Iran–Contra affair.
- 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.
- 2012 – The Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of [convert: invalid number], but was surpassed by Moscow's Mercury City Tower four months later.
July 5: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2015); Independence Day in Algeria (1962) and Cape Verde (1975); Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- 1687 – The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
- 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.
- 1980 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg (pictured) won his fifth Wimbledon final and became the first male player in the Open Era to win the championships five times in a row.
- 2009 – A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.