Editing July 5 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1915]] &ndash; The [[Liberty Bell]] leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]].  This is the last trip outside [[Philadelphia]] that the custodians of the bell intend to permit. 
*[[1934]] &ndash; "[[1934 West Coast waterfront strike|Bloody Thursday]]": The [[San Francisco Police Department|police]] open fire on striking [[longshoremen]] in [[San Francisco]].
*[[1935]] &ndash; The [[National Labor Relations Act]], which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Spam (food)|Spam]], the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the [[Hormel Foods Corporation]].
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Foreign relations of Vichy France]] are severed with the United Kingdom.
*[[1941]] &ndash; World War II: [[Operation Barbarossa]]: [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops reach the [[Dnieper]] river.
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: An [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] invasion fleet sails for [[Sicily]] ([[Operation Husky]], [[July 10]], 1943).
*  1943   &ndash; World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the [[Soviet Union]] at the [[Battle of Kursk]], also known as Operation Citadel.
*[[1945]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom]] holds its [[1945 United Kingdom general election|first general election]] in 10 years, which would be won by [[Clement Attlee]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Politics 97|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/background/pastelec/ge45.shtml|access-date=2022-01-10|website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> 
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Micheline Bernardini]] models the first modern [[bikini]] at a swimming pool in Paris.
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[National Health Service]] Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: [[Task Force Smith]]: American and [[North Korea]]n forces first clash, in the [[Battle of Osan]].
*  1950   &ndash; The [[Knesset]] of [[Israel]] passes the [[Law of Return]] which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
*[[1954]] &ndash; The [[BBC]] broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/5/newsid_3856000/3856397.stm |title=1954: BBC launches daily TV news |date=5 July 2008 |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] |accessdate=5 July 2021}}</ref>
*  1954   &ndash; [[Elvis Presley]] records his first single, "[[That's All Right]]", at [[Sun Records]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].
*[[1962]] &ndash; The official [[Independence Day (Algeria)|independence]] of [[Algeria]] is proclaimed after an eight-year-long [[Algerian War|war]] with [[French colonial empire|France]].
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Air Canada Flight 621]] crashes in [[Brampton]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], killing all 109 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 CF-TIW Toronto International Airport, ON (YYZ)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700705-0|access-date=2021-07-04|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1971]] &ndash; The [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], lowering the [[voting age]] from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; A [[boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion]] (BLEVE) in [[Kingman, Arizona]], following a fire that broke out as [[propane]] was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, [[Kingman Explosion|kills eleven firefighters]].
*  1973   &ndash; [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] seizes power over [[Rwanda]] in a [[1973 Rwandan coup d'état|coup d'état]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1973-07-06|title=Military Coup in Rwanda Follows Tribal Dissension|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/06/archives/military-coup-in-rwanda-follows-tribal-dissension.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Arthur Ashe]] becomes the first black man to win the [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] singles title.
*  1975   &ndash; [[Cape Verde]] gains its independence from Portugal.
*[[1977]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan's Black Day|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/07/pakistans-black-day/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=thediplomat.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; 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).  
*[[1984]] &ndash; The [[United States Supreme Court]] gives its ''[[United States v. Leon]]'' decision providing a [[good-faith exception]] from the [[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]] [[exclusionary rule]] against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.<ref>{{Cite web|title=United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984)|url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/468/897/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Justia Law|language=en}}</ref>  
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Sri Lankan civil war|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.
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Jeff Bezos]] founds [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Dominick Reuter, Isobel Asher|title=Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in one week on July 5, a 'sentimental' date he picked because it was when the company was incorporated in 1994|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-steps-down-amazon-ceo-july-5-sentimental-date-2021-5|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Business Insider|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Armenia]] adopts its [[Constitution of Armenia|constitution]], four years after its independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Dolly the sheep]] becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]]: Sri Lankan Tamil MP [[A. Thangathurai]] is shot dead at [[Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College]] in [[Trincomalee]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] imposes trade and economic [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267|sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan]].
*[[2003]] &ndash; The [[World Health Organization]] announces that the [[2002–2004 SARS outbreak]] has been contained.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World Health Organization declares SARS contained worldwide|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-health-organization-declares-sars-contained-worldwide|access-date=2022-01-10|website=HISTORY|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; The first [[Direct election|direct]] [[Indonesian presidential election, 2004|Indonesian presidential election]] is held.
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[North Korea]] [[2006 North Korean missile test|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]].
*[[2009]] &ndash; A series of violent riots [[July 2009 Ürümqi riots|break out]] in [[Ürümqi]], the capital city of the [[Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] in China.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 July 2009 |title=Scores killed in China protests |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm |url-status=live |access-date=6 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326003326/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm |archive-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>
*  2009   &ndash; The largest hoard of [[Anglo-Saxon]] gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, [[Staffordshire Hoard|is found]] near the village of [[Hammerwich]], near [[Lichfield, Staffordshire]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[The Shard]] in London is inaugurated as the [[List of tallest buildings in Europe|tallest building in Europe]], with a height of 310 metres (1,020&nbsp;ft).
*[[2016]] &ndash; The [[Juno (spacecraft)|Juno]] space probe arrives at [[Jupiter]] and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
*[[2022]] &ndash; British government ministers [[Sajid Javid]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] resign from the [[second Johnson ministry]], beginning the [[July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis]].<ref>{{cite web |date=5 July 2022 |title=Rishi Sunak resigns as chancellor in devastating blow to Boris Johnson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-resigns-chancellor-boris-johnson-b2116399.html |access-date=7 July 2022 |website=The Independent |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705174013/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-resigns-chancellor-boris-johnson-b2116399.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[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 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK election: Keir Starmer becomes Britain's new PM – DW – 07/05/2024 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/uk-election-keir-starmer-becomes-britains-new-pm/live-69567345 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref>