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July 5
National Day of Venezuela. Feast day of St Antony-Mary Zaccaria, and St Athanasius the Athonite.
Events
1791: George Hammond was appointed the first British ambassador to the USA.
1946: A swimsuit designed by Louis Reard, called 'bikini', was first modelled at a Paris fashion show.
1948: Britain's National Health Service came into operation.
1965: Maria Callas, at the age of 41, gave her last stage performance singing Tosca at Covent Garden, London.
1967: Israel annexed Gaza.
1969: The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in Hyde Park, London, two days after the death of guitarist Brian Jones; it was attended by 250,000 people.
1980: Björn Borg won the Wimbledon singles championship for a record fifth consecutive time.
1989: Convicted for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, US Army Colonel Oliver North was fined $150,000 and given a suspended sentence.
1997: Martina Hingis of Switzerland, aged 16 years 279 days, became the youngest winner of the women's singles at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, England, since 1887.
1999: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Russian government reached an agreement in Moscow, Russia, on the details of Russian participation in NATO's peacekeeping force in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Russian troops started to enter Kosovo on 6 July.
2000: Scottish film star Sean Connery was knighted for services to cinema.
Births
1755: Sarah Siddons, English actor
1853: Cecil Rhodes, South African statesman
1879: Dwight Davis, US statesman
1889: Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, artist, and film director
1911: Georges Pompidou, French statesman
1953: Elizabeth Emanuel, English dress designer
Deaths
1826: Thomas Stamford Raffles, British colonial administrator
1894: Austen Henry Layard, British archaeologist
1948: Georges Bernanos, French author
1969: Thomas Joseph Mboya, Kenyan statesman
1969: Walter Adolph Gropius, US architect
1974: Georgette Heyer, English novelist
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