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((<!--If July 5 was a Sunday-->#ifeq: 7 | ((#time:N|5 July ((CURRENTYEAR)))) |Tynwald Day (Isle of Man, (2024);)) | no footnotes |
Comoros (1975) and | unreferenced section |
Jan Hus Day in the Czech Republic; | multiple issues |
371 BC – Post-Peloponnesian War Conflicts: The Thebans defeated the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra in Boeotia in the territory of Thespiae, weakening Sparta's influence over the Greek peninsula. | refimprove section |
1415 – The Council of Constance executed Jan Hus, founder of the Christian Hussite reform movement, for committing heresy. | Jan Hus and Hussites both need more footnotes |
1535 – Thomas More, an opponent of the Protestant Reformation, was executed for treason for refusing to accept Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England. | refimprove section |
1785 – The dollar, a decimal currency system, was unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. | unreferenced section |
1885 – French chemists Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux successfully tested their vaccine against rabies on nine-year-old Joseph Meister after he was bitten by an infected dog. | conflict of interest |
1887 – King Kalākaua of Hawaiʻi was forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority as well as disfranchising all Asians, most native Hawaiians, and the poor. | refimprove |
1905 – American schoolteacher Katie DeWitt James filed for divorce from her husband, beginning a series of events that would ultimately lead to her unsolved murder and the consequent naming of Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma. | short |
1947 – Production of the AK-47, the world's best-selling assault rifle, began. | refimprove section |
1962 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, aired on Irish television for the first time. | unreferenced section |
1966 – Hastings Banda became the first president of Malawi, exactly two years after the country became independent from the United Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
1978 – A sleeping car train at Taunton, England, caught fire, killing 12 people and causing British Rail to install state-of-the art fire prevention measures. | single source |
1988 – An explosion and resulting fire destroyed Occidental Petroleum's oil platform Piper Alpha in the North Sea, killing 168 people. | refimprove section |
1998 – Hong Kong International Airport, built on the man-made island of Chek Lap Kok, opened for commercial operations, becoming one of the world's busiest airports. | unreferenced section |
2006 – Nathu La, a mountain pass in the Himalayas connecting India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opened for trade after more than 40 years. | outdated |
July 6: Independence Day in Malawi (1964)