Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 5

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 * 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.
 * 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1954 – Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
 * 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 September 20.
 * 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.
 * 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| Nicéphore Niépce |d|1833| W. T. Stead |b|1849| Wanda Landowska |b|1879| Thomas Playford IV |b|1896| Sophie Wyss |b|1897| Albrecht Kossel |d|1927| John Curtin |d|1945| Porfirio Rubirosa |d|1965| Kenji Ito|b|1968| Kate Gynther|b|1982| Kenneth Lay |d|2006| Lambert Jackson Woodburne |d|2013| Raffaella Carrà|d|2021|

July 5: Fifth of July in New York


 * 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.
 * 1924 – Brazilian Army rebels launched an uprising in São Paulo against President Artur Bernardes, who authorized the bombing of the city in response.
 * 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.
 * 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.