What events happened on July 5?

What events happened on July 5?

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇨🇻 Cape Verde – Independence Day.
🇩🇿 Algeria – Independence Day.
🇻🇪 Venezuela – Independence Day and National Armed Forces Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – Injury Prevention Day.
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands – Fisherman’s Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Constitution Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Judicial Officers Day.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇸🇰 Slovakia – Cyril and Methodius Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 1687 – Isaac Newton published “Mathematical Foundations of Natural Philosophy”.
– 1701 – Captured sailor Ivan Ryabov prevented the Swedish squadron from taking Arkhangelsk by landing on the sand.
– 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian and Turkish fleets began in the Gulf of Chios.
– 1811 – Venezuela became the first in South America to declare independence.
– 1831 – Cholera uprising in St. Petersburg.
– 1841 – Englishman Thomas Cook opened the first travel agency.
– 1884 – Germany declared a protectorate over Togo.
– 1881 – In Egypt, near Luxor, a unique tomb was discovered in which the pharaohs Seti I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose III and Ramses II the Great were buried.
– 1920 – The German Schleswig lands were transferred to Danish control.
– 1922 – The Tenentist uprising began in Rio de Janeiro.
– 1954 – Elvis Presley wrote his first song.
– 1962 – Algeria declares independence from France.
– 1975 – Cape Verde declares independence.
– 1986 – The first Goodwill Games open in Moscow.
– 1993 – The Road Fund is established.
– 1994 – Child labor is banned in China.
– 2006 – The Prince of Tonga, 56-year-old Tu’ipelehake, and his wife, 46-year-old Caimana, died in a car accident in the San Francisco Bay area (USA).
– 2014 – The standoff in Slavyansk ends, the city returns to Ukrainian control.
– 2015 – A referendum on financial policy is held in Greece, which rejects the measures proposed by the European Union, the IMF, and the World Bank to resolve the crisis.
– 2016 – NASA’s Juno spacecraft, launched in 2011, entered Jupiter’s polar orbit.