On this day in History - Jul 05

• 0649 - St. Martin I began his reign as Pope.
• 1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
• 1681 - Feodor Aleksejevitch, dies. Tsar of Russia
• 1687 - Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.
• 1717 - Pedro III of Portugal was born (d. 1786). Consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal
• 1761 - Louis-Léopold Boilly was born (d. 1845) . French painter.
• 1770 - Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
• 1773 - Francisco José Freire dies (b. 1719). Portuguese historian and philologist.
• 1794 - Sylvester Graham was born (d. 1851). American inventor of Graham cracker.
• 1803 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
• 1810 - Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum was born (d. 1891). American circus owner.
• 1811 - Venezuela is the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
• 1813 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
• 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.
• 1820 - William John Macquorn Rankine was born. Physicist.
• 1830 - France invades Algeria.
• 1833 - Nicéphore Niépce dies. French inventor (photographie).
• 1852 - A pena de morte para crimes políticos é abolida em Portugal .
• 1853 - Cecil Rhodes was born (d. 1902). South African financier, diamond merchant and statesman.
• 1865 - Hans Ziemann was born (d. 1939). Physician.
• 1865 - William Booth founds the Christian Mission (later renamed to the Salvation Army).
• 1865 - The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in England.
• 1879 - Dwight (Filley) Davis was born (d. 28 Nov 1945). Tennis Hall of Famer [inducted in 1956]: founder of Davis Cup [donated first trophy in 1900];tennis player and politician.
• 1879 - Wanda Landowska was born (d. 1959). Polish harpsichordist.
• 1880 - Jan Kubelík was born (d. 1940). Czech violinist.
• 1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• 1886 - Willem Drees was born (d. 1988). Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser was born. American psychologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1889 - Jean Cocteau was born (d. 1963). French writer.
• 1890 - Frederick Lewis Allen was born (d. 1954). American social historian.
• 1891 - John Howard Northrop was born (d. 1987). Americah chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1946 .
• 1891 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna was born. Spanish writer.
• 1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was born (d. 1985). U.S. diplomat.
• 1904 - Harold Acton was born (d. 1994). Writer and dilettante.
• 1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli dies. Kazakh poet
• 1908 - Jonas Lie dies. Norwegian author
• 1911 - Georges Pompidou was born (d. 1974). President of France.
• 1911 - Liberato Marcial Rojas Cabral assume a presidência do Paraguai.
• 1911 - D. Maria Pia de Sabóia dies. Queen of Portugal.
• 1914 - Annie Fischer was born. Hungarian pianist.
• 1918 - George Rochberg was born (d. 2005). American classical composer.
• 1920 - Max Klinger dies. Artist
• 1924 - Janos Starker was born. Hungarian Grammy Award-winning cellist [Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra: 1997]: Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1–6; Grand prix du disque [France: 1948]
• 1924 - Osman Lins was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1928 - Warren Oates was born (d. 1982). American actor.
• 1930 - Nasce Fernanda Alves na cidade de Lisboa (m. 6 Jan 2000). Actriz portuguesa, recitadora e encenadora (TEP). Figura destacada do Teatro Independente. Pertencia ao elenco do Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. Era membro do PCP (Partido Comunista Português). Casada com o poeta Ernesto Sampaio, este após a sua morte dedicou-lhe o livro "Fernanda" ("É uma planta que continua a florescer depois de ter sido arrancada").
• 1931 - António de Macedo, nasce em Lisboa. Realizador português e argumentista [Chá Forte com Limão (1993); Abismos da Meia-Noite, Os (1984) ; Príncipe com Orelhas de Burro, O (1980) ; A Promessa (1973); Domingo à Tarde (1965), entre outros]
• 1932 - Billy Laughlin was born (d. 1948). American actor.
• 1932 - Salazar foi nomeado Presidente do Conselho de Ministros de Portugal.
• 1934 - Katherine Helmond was born. American actress.
• 1934 - "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
• 1935 - Nos Estados Unidos, foi publicada a lei que garantia a liberdade sindical.
• 1936 - Shirley Knight, was born. Actress
• 1937 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 °C.
• 1939 - Booker Edgerson was born. American football player
• 1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
• 1941 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River.
• 1941 - Barbara Frischmuth was born. Writer
• 1943 - Curt Blefary was born (d. 2001). Major League Baseball player.
• 1943 - World War II: Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins as German tanks attacked the Soviet salient.
• 1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails to Sicily.
• 1943 - Betty Grable and Harry James got married
• 1944 - Robbie Robertson was born. Canadian guitarist
• 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
• 1945 - John Curtin dies. Fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1945 - Labour Party won British parliamentary election.
• 1946 - The bikini is introduced.
• 1948 - British National Health Service Act enacted.
• 1948 - Georges Bernanos dies (b. 1888). French writer.
• 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces.
• 1950 - Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
• 1950 - Huey Lewis was born. American musician
• 1950 - Michael Monarch was born. American guitarist (Steppenwolf)
• 1951 - Rich Gossage was born. Baseball player
• 1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
• 1954 - João Lopes was born in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Portuguese film critic. He wrote in several newspapers since 1973 ("República", "Expresso", "Diario de Notícias" ). Film teacher at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. Film writer and director.
• 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
• 1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• 1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, dies. Inventor
• 1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth
• 1958 - Bill Watterson was born. American cartoonist.
• 1959 - Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigned.
• 1962 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
• 1963 - Edie Falco was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz is elected President of México
• 1965 - Boddykins was born. Dagenham, Trainspotter, West Ham Fan
• 1966 - Kathryn Erbe was born. American actress .
• 1966 - Gianfranco Zola was born. Italian football (soccer) player.
• 1966 - George de Hevesy dies (b. 1885). Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1968 - O tenista australiano Rod Laver ganha o Torneio de Wimbledon.
• 1970 - Luis Echevarría is elected President of Mexico.
• 1969 - Walter Gropius dies (b. 1883). German architect.
• 1969 - John LeClair was born. American hockey player
• 1969 - RZA was born. Rapper .
• 1969 - Walter Gropius dies. Architect who was the founder of Bauhauss School
• 1969 - Em Londres, no Hyde Park, os Rolling Stones tocaram gratuitamente.
• 1970 - An Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108
• 1971 - Right to vote: The voting age in the United States is reduced to 18 from 21 (provision of the 26th Amendment formally certified by President Richard Nixon on this day).
• 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
• 1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
• 1975 - Otto Skorzeny dies. German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini.
• 1975 - Hernán Crespo was born. Argentine football player.
• 1976 - Em Espanha, entrou em vigor a Lei de Associação Política
• 1976 - Nuno Gomes was born. Portuguese footballer. He represents Benfica, Portugal's champion 2004/2005.
• 1976 - Marina Dias was born. Brazilian supermodel.
• 1978 - Publicada a Lei Orgânica do Ministério Público, em Portugal.
• 1979 - In Portugal, some politic parties joined to created The Democratic Aliance (A Aliança Democrática) / O PSD, CDS e PPM criam a Aliança Democrática (AD).
• 1979 - Shane Filan was born. Member of the Irish boyband Westlife
• 1979 - Amélie Mauresmo was born. French tennis player
• 1980 - Raquel Welch and Harry James got married. It was the third marriage of Raquel
• 1982 - Alberto Gilardino, was born. Italian footballer.
• 1982 - Jimmy Connors won the men’s singles tennis title at Wimbledon. Connors beat John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4.
• 1983 - Harry James dies. Musician, swing-era bandleader, trumpet player.
• 1983 - In Portugal is created The National Ecologic Reserve.
• 1983 - Fundación del Club Deportivo Provincial Osorno, Chile
• 1985 - Fundação da Liga de Futebol Profissional da Venezuela
• 1985 - Stephanie McIntosh was born. Australian actress
• 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.
• 1991 - Howard Nemerov dies (b. 1920). Poet.
• 1992 - Andre Agassi won his first Grand Slam title, defeating Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.
• 1993 - Maria Teresa de Noronha dies. Portuguese singer, fadist.
• 1994 - The United States announced it would be refusing entry to further unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
• 1995 - Irene Gutiérrez Caba dies. Spansish actress.
• 1996 - Dolly the sheep was born. First cloned mammal.
• 1998 - Pete Sampras won Wimbledon for the fifth time in six years with a 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 triumph over Goran Ivanisevic.
• 1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
• 1998 - Sid Luckman dies. American football player.
• 1998 - Guilherme Paixão dies. Portuguese journalist.
• 2000 - Edgar Cardoso dies (b. 1913). Portuguese engineer specialized in bridges. (Ponte da Arrábida no Porto)
• 2001 - Hannelore Kohl dies (suicide). Wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl.
• 2001 - O Tribunal de Haia confirma a condenação a 40 anos de prisão para o serviobosnio Goran Jelisic por crimes contra a humanidade.
• 2002 - Katy Jurado dies. Actress
• 2002 - Ted Williams dies (b. 1918). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 2003 - Roman Lyashenko, dies. Hockey player.
• 2003 - Taiwan is the last territory to be removed from the WHO's list of SARS affected areas.
• 2003 - Serena Williams beat sister Venus for her 2nd straight Wimbledon title.
• 2004 - First Indonesian presidential election, 2004 by the nation.
• 2004 - Éric Gagné's consecutive saves streak comes to an end at 84.
• 2004 - Rodger Ward dies (b. 1921). American race car driver.
• 2005 - James Stockdale dies (b. 1923). U.S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate
• 2006 - North Korea test launches two SCUD-C Nodong-2 short-range missiles and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
• 2006 - 2006 Germany World Cup: The semi-final Portugal- France takes place in Munich
• Algeria: Independence Day (1962)
• Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975)
• Isle of Man: Tynwald Day (1266)
• Venezuela: Independence Day (1811)
• Church of the SubGenius: X-Day (1998).