1054 A minor star in the constellation Taurus explodes July 5 in a supernova that is visible by daylight for 23 days and remains visible at night for another 633 days, an event recorded by pictographs in China and in the Western Hemisphere

1643 First recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)

1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England

1758 Lake George New York, General James Abercromby leaves the ruins of Fort William Henry at the head of Lake George to attack the French at Fort Carillon; army of 6,000 British regulars, and almost 9000 provincials from New England, New York and New Jersey, embarks in hundreds of batteaux and whale boats.

1791 Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey, now in Vancouver, BC

1808 Battle of Buenos Aires

1809 Napoleon annexes the Papal States Pope Pius VII is taken prisoner July 5 and will remain in custody until 1814

1809 The Battle of Wagram ends in victory for the French but at a terrible cost 23,000 French soldiers killed or wounded, 7,000 missing out of a 181,700-man army that includes 29,000 cavalrymen, while the Austrian army of 181,700 (4,600 cavalrymen) is forced to retreat after losing 19,110 killed or wounded, 6,740 missing

1811 Venezuela, first South American country to gain independence from Spain

1814 Americans defeat British &Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario

1841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency

1843 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil govt in Oregon Country

1859 Capt NC Brooks discovers Midway Islands

1861 Engagement at Carthage, Missouri

1865 William Booth founded Salvation Army in London

1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD

1900 Sgt. Arthur H.L. Richardson (Cdn.) (Strathcona's Horse) wins the Vicotria Cross at Wolve Spruit South Africa

1919 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his first of 72 times

1929 A Deutsch discovers asteroid #1148 Rarahu

1930 Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but his turtle survives.

1932 Oliveira Salazar becomes dictator of fascist Portugal

1935 First Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast

1935 Pres Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act

1936 120ø F (49ø C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)

1937 117ø F (47ø C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)

1937 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1428 Mombasa ֖ Somalia

1937 Joe DiMaggio's first grand slammer

1937 Yellow Grass Saskatchewan, the temperature at Yellow Grass reaches 45C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, 110F+.

1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain &Vichy govt in France

1940 HMS WHIRLWIND, sunk in the North Atlantic 120 miles west of Lands End, south west England 1 torpedo from German U-34.

1942 Port Hope Ontario, Ian Fleming the first graduate of the Special 25 training school for spies; later member of MI5, creator of James Bond novels.

1944 Harry Crosby takes first rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight

1945 Australian Prime Minister John Curtin dies in office

1945 Death of Prime Minister John Curtin

1946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show

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