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01
American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
02
Child star Shirley Temple signed contract.
03
First Sunday game at Fenway Park
04
1826 - Thomas Jefferson died
05
Todt builds autobahn
06
Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
07
Spain - San Fermín festival
08
Vasco da Gama Sets Sail
09
William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
10
Death Valley, California hits 134 degrees Fahrenheit.
11
Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.
12
Dolley Madison dies.
13
Queen Victoria moves into Buckingham Palace in London.
14
French Revolution begins in 1789.
15
Carl Czerny, Austrian composer
16
6th Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling is released
17
World War II: Potsdam Conference
18
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
19
Doc Holliday commits first murder.
20
The Innocents Abroad is published by Mark Twain.
21
Mungo Park Expedition
22
Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
23
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
24
Amelia Earhart, American aviator
25
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, First Lady
26
United States Post Office Department was established
27
Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer
28
Beatrix Potter, English author
29
Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
30
Vanuatu gains independence.
31
NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
     

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Some Historical Events
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July 5th

Todt builds autobahn (1933)
Venezuela declares independence from Spain. (1811)
Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. (1998)
Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. (1975)
William Shockley invents the junction transistor. (1951)
Taiwan is the last territory to be removed from the WHO's list of SARS affected areas. (2003)




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