Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 5

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• Pieces discovered at the Staffordshire Hoard site
  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)
  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
• Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
  Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
• BBC News logo
  BBC News logo
• Björn Borg on the tennis court
  Björn Borg on the tennis court
• Isaac Newton
  Isaac Newton
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
  Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
• Thomas Cook
  Thomas Cook
• Juvénal Habyarimana
  Juvénal Habyarimana
• A police officer confronts a striking longshoreman, San Francisco 1934
  A police officer confronts a striking longshoreman, San Francisco 1934
• The Shard, London
  The Shard, London
• Artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard
  Artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard

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
1814 – War of 1812: American troops invading Upper Canada were victorious at the Battle of Chippawa.	Undercited
1833 – Liberal Wars: In the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, an outnumbered and outgunned Liberal fleet captured six Miguelite ships.	page numbers needed
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.	Too much uncited
1934 – Police in San Francisco opened fire on a crowd of longshoremen who had been on strike for nearly two months, killing two.	Undercited
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.	Date not cited in article
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
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
Nicéphore Niépce |d|1833|	Too much uncited
Porfirio Rubirosa |d|1965|	Too much uncited
Megan Rapinoe |b|1985	outdated
Régine Crespin |d|2007|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 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.
• 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.
• 1954 – Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 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.
• 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 Template:Nowrap
• 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.
• 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.
• 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| [[W. T. Stead|Template:Nowrap Stead]]|b|1849| Wanda Landowska|b|1879| Thomas Playford IV|b|1896| Sophie Wyss |b|1897| Albrecht Kossel |d|1927| John Curtin|d|1945| Kenji Ito|b|1968| Kate Gynther|b|1982| Megan Rapinoe |b|1985| Ted Williams|d|2002|Kenneth Lay |d|2006| Lambert Jackson Woodburne |d|2013| Raffaella Carrà|d|2021|

July 5: Fifth of July in New York Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1830 – Algiers surrendered to French invaders, ending the Regency of Algiers (coat of arms pictured).
• 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.
• 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.
• 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.
• 1990 – An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Channelview, Texas, killed 17 people and injured five others.