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Pieces discovered at the Staffordshire Hoard site -
A sword hilt fitting, gold with cloisonné garnet inlay, from the Staffordshire Hoard (soil can be seen on the object as it has not yet been cleaned by conservators) -
Frederick Douglass -
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879) -
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Björn Borg on the tennis court -
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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq -
Thomas Cook -
Juvénal Habyarimana -
A police officer confronts a striking longshoreman, San Francisco 1934 -
The Shard, London
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Earth at aphelion (22:27 UTC, 2021) | tagged for ref improvement |
| Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man; | no footnotes |
| ; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia | needs more footnotes |
| Independence Day in Algeria (1962), Cape Verde (1975) and Venezuela (1811) | all: refimprove section |
| 1687 – The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation. | refimprove section |
| 1833 – Liberal Wars: In the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, an outnumbered and outgunned Liberal fleet captured six Miguelite ships. | page numbers needed |
| 1950 – The Israeli Knesset enacted the Law of Return, granting Jews around the world the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship. | refimprove section |
| 1954 – BBC News aired its first televised news broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. | date not in citation given |
| 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état. | Zia-ul-Haq: lots of CN tags (10); Operation: page numbers needed |
| 1980 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg won his fifth Wimbledon final and became the first male player in the Open Era to win the championships five times in a row. | refimprove section |
| 1987 – The Black Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam made its first suicide bombing against the Sri Lanka Army in Nelliady, Sri Lanka. | accuracy, unreferenced section |
| Megan Rapinoe |b|1985 | outdated |
| * 1814 – War of 1812: American troops invading Upper Canada were victorious at the Battle of Chippawa. | Undercited |
| * 1934 – Police in San Francisco opened fire on a crowd of longshoremen who had been on strike for nearly two months, killing two. | Undercited |
| * 1948 – Aneurin Bevan, the Health Minister of the United Kingdom, launched the National Health Service, one of the major social reforms following the Second World War. | Tagged as outdated, overly long quotations, irrelevant information |
| Régine Crespin |d|2007| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1852 – Frederick Douglass gave his speech known as "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?", arguing that positive statements about liberty, citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved population of the United States because of their lack of those things.
- 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.
- 1938 – The Australian government enacted the National Insurance scheme, a comprehensive social security and health insurance system, only to abandon the scheme before it became operational.
- 1944 – Second World War: Canadian troops defeated the last German counterattacks against Carpiquet, Normandy, France.
- 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear-weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
- 1950 – Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces, an unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army task force was routed at the Battle of Osan.
- 1954 – Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1973 – Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured) orchestrated a bloodless coup d'état of the Rwandan government and began a totalitarian dictatorship.
- 1989 – United States National Security Council member Oliver North was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service for his part in the Iran–Contra affair.
- 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections, which resulted in the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of Indonesia after the second round on September 20.
- 2006 – The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting hours after North Korea reportedly tested at least seven ballistic missiles.
- 2009 – A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.
- 2012 – The Shard (pictured) in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 m (1,020 ft), but was surpassed by Moscow's Mercury City Tower four months later.
- Born/died: | Joan of the Tower |b|1321| Sarah Siddons |b|1755| Sylvester Graham |b|1794| Nicéphore Niépce |d|1833| W. T. Stead |b|1849| Wanda Landowska |b|1879| Thomas Playford IV |b|1896| Sophie Wyss |b|1897| Albrecht Kossel |d|1927| John Curtin |d|1945| Porfirio Rubirosa |d|1965| Kenji Ito|b|1968| Kate Gynther|b|1982| Kenneth Lay |d|2006| Lambert Jackson Woodburne |d|2013| Raffaella Carrà|d|2021|
July 5: Fifth of July in New York
Artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard
- 1841 – Thomas Cook, the founder of the British travel company Thomas Cook & Son, organised his first excursion, escorting about 500 people from Leicester to Loughborough.
- 1922 – Brazilian Army rebels took over Fort Copacabana and launched a rebellion in Rio de Janeiro against President Epitácio Pessoa and President-elect Artur Bernardes.
- 1969 – Two days after the death of their founder Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones performed at a free festival in Hyde Park, London, in front of more than a quarter of a million fans.
- 2009 – The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items (examples pictured), was found near Hammerwich in Staffordshire.
- W. T. Stead (b. 1849)
- Thomas Playford IV (b. 1896)
- Kate Gynther (b. 1982)
- Ted Williams (d. 2002)