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Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Syncom 2
Clement Attlee
Seal of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Flag of Stellaland
1882 premiere of Parsifal
Moncada Barracks
Emmy Noether
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Liberia (1847) and the Maldives (1965) | Liberia: lead too long; Maldives: refimprove sections |
| 811 – Bulgarian forces led by Khan Krum defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Pliska, annihilating almost the whole army and killing Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I. | refimprove section |
| 1822 – In Guayaquil, José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar to plan for the future of Peru and South America in general. | needs more footnotes |
| 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces captured Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers in northeastern Ohio, ending Morgan's Raid. | needs more footnotes |
| 1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal, loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic poem Parzival about Arthurian knight Percival and his quest for the Holy Grail, officially premiered at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Bavaria (present-day Germany). | unreferenced section |
| 1908 – Unable to use U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators, Attorney General Charles Bonaparte established what is now the Federal Bureau of Investigation as his own staff of special agents. | unreferenced section |
| 1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee. | refimprove |
| 1957 – Luis Arturo González López briefly becomes President of Guatemala after the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas. | short |
| 1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched by NASA on a Delta B rocket from Cape Canaveral. | needs more footnotes |
| 1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. | multiple issues |
| 1999 – Fighting in the Kargil War ended after Indian troops cleared the town of Drass, Kashmir, of Pakistani forces. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – One day after similar bombings in Bangalore, 21 bombs exploded in Ahmedabad, India, killing 56 people and injuring over 200 others. | {{prose}} |
Eligible
- 1509 – Krishnadevaraya, who would become the most powerful of all the Hindu rulers of India, ascended to the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire.
- 1533 – During the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last independent emperor, Atahualpa, in Cajamarca.
- 1581 – Representatives of the States General of the Netherlands signed the Act of Abjuration, declaring the independence of the Dutch Low Countries from King Philip II of Spain.
- 1887 – L. L. Zamenhof published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
- 1918 – Emmy Noether (pictured) introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy, at Göttingen, Germany.
- 1953 – Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led a group of approximately 135 rebels in an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
- 1953 – The Battle of the Samichon River, the last fighting of the Korean War, ended only a few hours before the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed.
- 1968 – In South Vietnam, after coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election in 1967, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a military court for illicit currency transactions.
- 2007 – After widespread controversy throughout Wales, Shambo, a black Friesian bull that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, was slaughtered due to concerns about bovine tuberculosis.
- 2016 – In one of the most deadly crimes committed in modern Japanese history, a former employee went on a knife rampage at a care home for disabled people in Sagamihara, killing 19 people and wounding 26 others.
- Born/died this day: George Bernard Shaw (b. 1856) · Daniel J. Callaghan (b. 1890) · Howard Vernon (d. 1921) · Hoyt Wilhelm (b. 1922) · Ana María Matute (b. 1925) · Robert Todd Lincoln (d. 1926) · Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928) · Mick Jagger (b. 1943) · Asif Ali Zardari (b. 1955) · Kate Beckinsale (b. 1973) · Jacinda Ardern (b. 1980)
Notes
- Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy appears on July 12, so Short Creek raid should not appear in the same year
- 1759 – French and Indian War: Rather than defend Fort Carillon near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, from an approaching 11,000-man British force, French Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque withdrew his troops and attempted to blow up the fort.
- 1882 – Boer mercenaries declared their independence from the Transvaal Republic and established the Republic of Stellaland.
- 1936 – The Canadian National Vimy Memorial (pictured), dedicated to the Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War, was unveiled near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- 1953 – In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
- 2009 – The militant Islamist group Boko Haram launched an attack on a Nigeria Police Force station, sparking violence across several states in northeastern Nigeria, leaving more than 1,000 people dead.
Justin Holland (b. 1819) · Carl Jung (b. 1875) · Sandra Bullock (b. 1964)