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Henry III of France
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Sliced bread
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Ambulances at Russell Square, London, after the 2005 bombings
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Victims of the 7 July bombings trapped underground
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Andres Bonifacio, a leader of the Katipunan
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John D. Sloat
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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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Memorial service for the shot Dallas police officers
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Carlos Castillo Armas
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Samantha Smith
Ineligible
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{{<!--If July 5 was a Saturday-->#ifeq: 6 | {{#time:N|5 July {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} |Tynwald Day (Isle of Man, 2024);}} | needs more footnotes |
Kupala Night in Russia and Ukraine | refimprove |
Tanabata in Japan | refimprove |
; Independence Day in the Solomon Islands (1978) | unreferenced sections |
1585 – The Treaty of Nemours was first signed, forcing Henry III of France to give in to the demands of the Catholic League and revoking all edicts granting concessions to the Huguenots. | refimprove section |
1807 – Tsar Alexander I of Russiaand Napoleon signed the first agreement of the Treaties of Tilsit, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. | lots of CN/PN tags |
1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began, fueled by rumors that they were encouraging miscegenation. | lots of CN tags in one section (4) |
1846 – Mexican–American War: American forces led by Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey, beginning the annexation of California. | single source |
1892 – The Philippine revolutionary secret society Katipunan was founded by anti-Spanish Filipinos in Manila. | refimprove sections |
1915 – Sinhalese army officer Henry Pedris was wrongly executed by British authorities for allegedly inciting race riots, hastening the Sri Lankan independence movement. | refimprove section |
1928 – The Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri, first produced sliced bread, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", which then led to the popular phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread". | globalize, original research |
1937 – The Imperial Japanese Army engaged the China's National Revolutionary Army on Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. | unreferenced section |
1946 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American to be canonized as a saint. | refimprove section |
1994 – Troops from the former North Yemen captured Aden, ending the Yemeni Civil War. | refimprove section |
1997 – Iraqi Kurdish Civil War: The Turkish Armed Forces concluded Operation Hammer, having successfully destroyed Kurdistan Workers' Party units in Northern Iraq. | Attached ref says Turkey was not successful. Only numbers are from Turkish government, article has almost no explanation of what actually happened |
2005 – Suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of four explosions on London's public transport system. | refimprove section |
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI issued the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass. | refimprove section |
2012 – The equivalent of five months' rain fell overnight in parts of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, causing flash floods that killed 171 people. | doubts over the extent of the rainfall; see [1] |
* 1990 – The Three Tenors performed together for the first time in a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, watched by a global television audience of around 800 million, on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final. | Uncited section |
* 1954 – After the culmination of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Carlos Castillo Armas (pictured) was sworn in as president of Guatemala. | Article says became president on 8 July |
Eligible
- 1575 – A dispute between Sir John Forster and Sir John Carmichael led to a Scottish raid on Northumberland, England, in which 27 men were killed.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200 men at the Battle of Hubbardton.
- 1911 – Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.
- 1937 – The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended the partition of British-administered Mandatory Palestine into two states.
- 1983 – After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith (pictured) visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
- 2016 – A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.
- Born/died this day: | Momchil |d|1345| Guru Har Krishan |b|1656| Jane Elizabeth Conklin |b|1831| Camillo Golgi |b|1843| Keanolani|b|1847| Gustav Mahler |b|1860| Mary Surratt |d|1865| Fernande Sadler |b|1869|Eiji Tsuburaya |b|1901| Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin |b|1905| Whitney North Seymour Jr.|b|1923| Arthur Conan Doyle |d|1930| Joe Sakic|b|1969| Francis Hagai |d|1974| Germaine Thyssens-Valentin |d|1987| Anne McLaren and Donald Michie |d|2007| Eduard Shevardnadze |d|2014| Peter Underwood |d|2014|
Notes
- Joan of Arc appears on May 30, so Retrial of Joan of Arc should not appear in the same year
- 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état appears on June 18 and Operation PBHistory appears on July 4, so Carlos Castillo Armas should not appear in the same year
- Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) appears on July 6, so Battle of Hubbardton should not appear in the same year
- Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian activist born on 7 July – sources differ whether he was born in 1859 or 1860
- 1456 – Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after her death.
- 1798 – Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought entirely at sea.
- 1907 – Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
- 1963 – The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.
- 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
- Camillo Golgi (b. 1843)
- Joe Sakic (b. 1969)
- Francis Hagai (d. 1974)
- Eduard Shevardnadze (d. 2014)