5 Julie

The 5t o Julie is the 186t day o the year (187t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 179 days ti come.

Events

• 1295 - Scotland's Auld Alliance wi Fraunce is creatit.
• 1811 - Venezuela declares unthirldom frae Spain.
• 1814 - Unitit States troops defeat the Breetish in the Battle o Chippewa.
• 1830 - French troops conquer Algiers.
• 1884 - Germany taks control o Togo an Cameroon.
• 1922 - The Nansen passport for emigrants an stateless fowk is introduced.
• 1943 - Warld War II: An Allied invasion fleet sets sail for Sicily.
• 1945 - The liberation o the Philippines is declared.
• 1946 - The Bikini is introduced in Fraunce.
• 1948 - The Unitit Kinrick's Naitional Heal Service is foondit.
• 1962 - Algerie becomes independent o Fraunce.
• 1970 - Air Canada Flicht 621 crashes naur Toronto, killin 108 fowk.
• 1971 - The Unitit States lowers the votin age frae 21 tae 18.
• 1975 - Cape Verde is granted unthirldom frae Portugal.
• 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man tae win a singles title at the Wimbledon Championships.
• 1977 - A militar coup removes Zulfikar Ali Bhutto frae pouer in Pakistan.
• 1991 - Nelson Mandela becomes Preses o the African Naitional Congress.
• 1995 - Armenie adopts its constitution.
• 1996 - Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal, is born in Scotland.
• 2002 - A bomb attack in Larbaa, Algerie, kills 50 fowk.
• 2009 - Roger Federer wins his record-breakin 15th men's singles teetle at the Wimbledon Championships, defeatin Andy Roddick in 5 sets.
• 2009 - A lairge Anglo-Saxon hoard is discovered in Staffordshire, Ingland.
• 2012 - The Shard, the Unitit Kinrick's tallest biggin, is inauguratit in Lunnon.
• 2015 - The Forth Brig becomes a Warld Heritage Steid.
• 2015 - The Unitit States defeat Japan 5-2 tae win the FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup in Canadae.
• 2016 - The American Juno space probe enters intae orbit aroond Jupiter.
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Indie owertaks Roushie as the kintra wi the thrid-maist recordit cases o COVID-19.

Births

• 1321 - Joan o the Touer, Inglis-born Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1362)
• 1801 - David Farragut, American naval officer (d. 1870)
• 1802 - Pavel Nakhimov, Roushie admiral (d. 1855)
• 1810 - P. T. Barnum, American business magnate, circus presenter and politician (d. 1891)
• 1820 - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scots pheesicist, mathemateecian an ingineer (d. 1872)
• 1853 - Cecil Rhodes, Breetish-born Sooth African businessman, minin magnate, an politeecian (d. 1902)
• 1856 - Ion Keith-Falconer, Scots meesionar an Arabic scholart (d. 1887)
• 1857 - Clara Zetkin, German communist politeecian an advocate o weemen's richts (d. 1933)
• 1864 - Robert Muir, Scots medicinar an pathologist (d. 1959)
• 1886 - Willem Drees, Prime meenister o the Netherlands (d. 1988)
• 1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer, director an penter (d. 1963)
• 1891 - John Howard Northrop, American biochemist (d. 1987)
• 1898 - Lawrence Ogilvie, Scots plant pathologist (d. 1980)
• 1904 - Ernst Mayr, German-born American evolutionary biologist (d. 2005)
• 1911 - Georges Pompidou, Preses o Fraunce (d. 1974)
• 1926 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, Preses o the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
• 1928 - Pierre Mauroy, Prime meenister o Fraunce (d. 2013)
• 1932 - Gyula Horn, Prime meenister o Hungary (d. 2013)
• 1935 - Michael Wenning, Sooth African-born American Presbyterian meenister (d. 2011)
• 1936 - James Mirrlees, Scots economist (d. 2018)
• 1946 - Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch pheesicist
• 1956 - Horacio Cartes, umwhile Preses o Paraguay
• 1958 - Veronica Guerin, Erse jurnalist (d. 1996)
• 1958 - Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politeecian
• 1960 - Gary Gillespie, Scots fitbawer
• 1963 - Edie Falco, American actress
• 1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian fitbawer an manager
• 1969 - Michael O'Neill, Northren Ireland fitbaw manager
• 1971 - Derek McInnes, Scots fitbawer an manager
• 1973 - Róisín Murphy, Erse sangster-sangwriter an record producer
• 1975 - Hernán Crespo, Argentine fitbawer
• 1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
• 1979 - Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian fitbawer
• 1982 - Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
• 1985 - Megan Rapinoe, American fitbawer
• 1989 - Dejan Lovren, Croatian fitbawer
• 1996 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003)

Daiths

• 1826 - Stamford Raffles, foonder o Singapore (b. 1781)
• 1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German medicinar (b. 1853)
• 1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist (b. 1885)
• 1969 - Walter Gropius, German airchitect (b. 1883)
• 1975 - Otto Skorzeny, Austrick SS afficer (b. 1908)
• 1987 - Bobby Ancell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1911)
• 2015 - Princess Dorothea o Bavarie (b. 1920)
• 2015 - Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American pheesicist (b. 1921)
• 2017 - John McKenzie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1925)

Halidays

• Independence Day (Algerie, Cape Verde, Venezuela)
• Constitution Day (Armenie)
• Tynwald Day (Isle o Man)