July 5th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The events of July 5th are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below are the main events of July:

• World Bikini Day.
• International Day of Cooperatives.
• Venezuela Independence Day.

Saint's Day: Saint Anthony, Zacharias, confessor, and Saint Zoa.

National: July 5th Anniversaries

• 1849: Santiago Espaillat is elected president, but refuses to accept the position.
• 1961: PRD Commission (Miolán, Castillo, Silfa and Volman) arrives in the country to prepare for Juan Bosch's return.
• 1961: La Voz Dominicana broadcasts a message recorded by Bosch to the Dominican people.
• 1965: Constitutionalist government delivers to the OAS proposal for a solution to the political-military crisis.
• 1971: Elías Wessin y Wessin is deported to Spain by order of President Balaguer.
• 1976: Balaguer enacts law 415 for the transfer of the Fathers of the Nation to the mausoleum of Independence Park.
• 1981: Publication of the weekly Camino begins under the Conference of the Episcopate.
• 1982: Jacobo Majluta assumes the presidency after being sworn in before the Supreme Court.
• 1982: Mother Teresa of Calcutta visits the country and prays for Antonio Guzmán.
• 1983: DR is admitted as an observer member in Caricom.
• 1999: Works by Juan Bosch are put into circulation in Santo Domingo and Havana.
• 2015: Haitian Ambassador Daniel Supplice admits that his country did not collaborate with the Regularization Plan.
• 2015: The Bonó Center supports the Regularization Plan and calls it a "historic opportunity."
• 2020: DR holds presidential and congressional elections after an electoral crisis.
• 2020: Haitian media rebroadcast Dominican elections for the first time.
• 2021: PRD celebrates 60 years in DR, marked by a deep decline.
• 2022: IMF warns about economic uncertainty in DR and Central America due to external factors.

International: July 5th anniversaries

• 1201: Earthquake in Syria leaves up to 1.1 million dead in the Middle East.
• 1517: Selim I is recognized as protector of the holy cities of Islam.
• 1809: Napoleon occupies the Vatican and imprisons the Pope.
• 1811: Bolívar and Miranda proclaim independence of Venezuela.
• 1813: British troops land in Alicante against the French.
• 1859: Captain Middlebrooks takes possession of the Midway Islands.
• 1961: In Algeria, FLN demonstrations leave 80 dead.
• 1962: Algeria officially gains independence from France.
• 1975: General strike in Argentina against the Peronist government; Cape Verde gains independence.
• 1989: Mandela is invited by Botha to the South African presidential residence.
• 1996: Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal, is born.
• 2006: Marco Mancini, linked to the kidnapping of Abu Omar, is arrested in Italy.
• 2007: 11 former Colombian deputies kidnapped by the FARC die.
• 2009: OAS suspends Honduras for coup against Zelaya; violence in Xinjiang leaves 197 dead.
• 2015: Honduran judge orders house arrest for Lena Gutiérrez for irregular sale of medicines.
• 2016: The Juno probe enters Jupiter's orbit after a five-year mission.
• 2018: Popular Party in Spain holds first round of primaries.
• 2018: Explosion in Tultepec, Mexico, leaves at least 12 dead.
• 2020: Remains of soldier Vanessa Guillén are identified in the USA.
• 2021: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse appoints Ariel Henry as Prime Minister.
• 2021: Jeff Bezos hands over Amazon's direction to Andy Jassy.
• 2022: Biden calls for restricting assault rifles after shooting in Illinois.
• 2022: Ministers Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resign, sinking Boris Johnson's leadership.
• 2023: Last launch of the Ariane 5 rocket takes place in French Guiana.

Births: July 5th Anniversaries

• 1597: Sigismondo Boldoni, Italian writer.
• 1675: Mary Walcott, American woman, witness in the Salem witch trials.
• 1783: Charles-Louis Havas, French writer and journalist, founder of the news agency France-Presse (AFP).
• 1852: Pedro Antonio Díaz, Panamanian politician, President of Panama between October 1 and 12, 1918.
• 1874: Eugen Fischer, German scientist in the service of Nazi Germany during World War II.
• 1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944.
• 1908: Enrique de Orleans, French aristocrat and politician, Orleanist pretender to the throne of France.
• 1919: Bep Voskuijl, Dutch citizen who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.
• 1933: Sheldon Dorf, American comic book artist, creator and founder of Comic-Con International: San Diego.

Deaths: July 5th Anniversaries

• 717 BC: Romulus, one of the founders of Rome.
• 1862: Josefa Camejo, heroine of the Independence of Venezuela.
• 1910: Idelfonso Mella Castillo, brother of Matías Ramón Mella.
• 1965: Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and playboy, dies in Paris after a car accident.
• 2009: Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of State, dies at age 93.
• 2023: Coco Lee, Hong Kong-American singer.