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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_of_July_(New_York)" title="Fifth of July (New York)">Fifth of July</a></b> in New York
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1841" title="1841">1841</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook" title="Thomas Cook">Thomas Cook</a></b>, the founder of the British travel company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_%26_Son" title="Thomas Cook & Son">Thomas Cook & Son</a>, organised his first excursion, escorting about 500 people from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughborough" title="Loughborough">Loughborough</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenentism" title="Tenentism">Brazilian Army rebels</a> took over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Copacabana" title="Fort Copacabana">Fort Copacabana</a> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copacabana_Fort_revolt" title="Copacabana Fort revolt">launched a rebellion</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a> against the president of Brazil.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" title="1944">1944</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>: Canadian troops <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Windsor" title="Operation Windsor">defeated</a></b> the last German counterattacks against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpiquet" title="Carpiquet">Carpiquet</a>, Normandy, France.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946" title="1946">1946</a> – Named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll" title="Bikini Atoll">Bikini Atoll</a>, the site of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear-weapons</a> test <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads" title="Operation Crossroads">Operation Crossroads</a> in the Marshall Islands, the modern <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini" title="Bikini">bikini</a></b> was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana" title="Juvénal Habyarimana">Juvénal Habyarimana</a> orchestrated <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Rwandan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Rwandan coup d'état">a bloodless coup d'état</a></b> of the Rwandan government and began a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarian</a> dictatorship.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – A series of violent riots <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_riots" title="July 2009 Ürümqi riots">broke out</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi" title="Ürümqi">Ürümqi</a>, the capital city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a> in China.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_the_Tower" title="Joan of the Tower">Joan of the Tower</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1321); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Ito" title="Kenji Ito">Kenji Ito</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1968); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Jackson_Woodburne" title="Lambert Jackson Woodburne">Lambert Jackson Woodburne</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2013); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaella_Carr%C3%A0" title="Raffaella Carrà">Raffaella Carrà</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2021)</p>
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