5 July
Notable Births
Suzan Lamens
b. 1999
Dutch tennis player (born 1999)
Kang Hye-won
b. 1999
South Korean actress and singer (born 1999)
Emily Fox
b. 1998
American soccer player (born 1998)
Jeon Jong-seo
b. 1994
South Korean actress (born 1994)
Shohei Ohtani
b. 1994
Japanese baseball player (born 1994)
Jorge Polanco
b. 1993
Dominican baseball player (born 1993)
Alberto Moreno
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Chiara Scholl
b. 1992
American tennis player
Jason Dolley
b. 1991
American actor, musician, & Twitch streamer (born 1991)
Abeba Aregawi
b. 1990
Ethiopian-born middle-distance runner
Adam Cole
b. 1989
American professional wrestler (born 1989)
Georgios Efrem
b. 1989
Cypriot international footballer
Samir Ujkani
b. 1988
Kosovan footballer (born 1988)
Ji Chang-wook
b. 1987
South Korean actor and singer (born 1987)
Safiq Rahim
b. 1987
Malaysian footballer
Alexander Kristoff
b. 1987
Norwegian road bicycle racer (born 1987)
Iurii Cheban
b. 1986
Ukrainian sprint canoeist
Piermario Morosini
b. 1986
Italian footballer (1986–2012)
Megan Rapinoe
b. 1985
American soccer player
Veronica Guerin
b. 1958
Irish crime reporter (1959–1996)
Notable Deaths
Jon Landau (film producer)
d. 2024
American film producer (1960–2024)
Bengt I. Samuelsson
d. 2024
Swedish biochemist (1934–2024)
Vic Seixas
d. 2024
American tennis player (1923–2024)
Raffaella Carrà
d. 2021
Italian singer and actress (1943–2021)
Richard Donner
d. 2021
American filmmaker (1930–2021)
Nick Cordero
d. 2020
Canadian actor and singer (1978–2020)
Uffe Haagerup
d. 2015
Danish mathematician (1949–2015)
Yoichiro Nambu
d. 2015
Japanese-American nobel-winning physicist
Rosemary Murphy
d. 2014
German-American actress (1925–2014)
Volodymyr Sabodan
d. 2014
Ukrainian bishop and Primate (1935–2014)
Hans-Ulrich Wehler
d. 2014
German historian (1931–2014)
David Cargo
d. 2013
American politician (1929–2013)
William Tebeau
d. 2013
American engineer and educator
Lambert Jackson Woodburne
d. 2013
South African admiral (1939–2013)
Gerrit Komrij
d. 2012
Dutch writer
Rob Goris
d. 2012
Belgian cyclist
Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge
d. 2012
British businessman and politician
Ruud van Hemert
d. 2012
Dutch film director
Cy Twombly
d. 2011
American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)
Bob Probert
d. 2010
Canadian ice hockey player (1965–2010)
On This Day in History
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2024
Keir Starmer is appointed Prime Minister by Charles III, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair at the 2005 general election
Keir Starmer
2023
The last Ariane 5 rocket is launched, carrying the Heinrich Hertz and Syracuse 4B satellites.
Ariane 5
2022
British government ministers Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign from the second Johnson ministry, beginning the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
Sajid Javid
2016
The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
Juno (spacecraft)
2012
The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
The Shard
2009
A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
July 2009 Ürümqi riots
2009
The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Anglo-Saxons
2006
North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
North Korea
2004
The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held.
Direct election
2003
The World Health Organization announces that the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak has been contained.
World Health Organization
1999
U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Bill Clinton
1997
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee.
Sri Lankan civil war
1996
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Dolly (sheep)
1995
Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
Armenia
1994
Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
Jeff Bezos
1989
Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
Iran–Contra affair
1987
Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
Sri Lankan civil war
1984
The United States Supreme Court gives its United States v. Leon decision providing a good-faith exception from the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.
Supreme Court of the United States
1980
Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
Björn Borg
1977
The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
Pakistan Armed Forces