July 5

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2024 Daily Holidays that fall on July 5, include:

• Bikini Day 
• Comic Sans Day - July 5, 2024 (First Friday in July)
• Mechanical Pencil Day 
  
• National Apple Turnover Day 
• National Graham Cracker Day 
• National Workaholics Day 
• Work Without Your Hands Day - (Sponge Bob)

2024 Weekly Holidays that include July 5, are:

• Air Conditioning Appreciation Days - July 3 - August 15
• Clean Beaches Week - July 1-7
• Dog Days of Summer - July 3 - August 11
• Eye Safety Awareness Week - June 30 - July 6, 2024 (7 days starting last Sunday in June)
• Freedom Week - July 4-10
• Hellen Keller - Blind Awareness Week - June 30 - July 6, 2024 (7 days starting the last Sunday in June)
• International Lace Week - July 1-6, 2024
  
• National Unassisted Homebirth Week - July 1-7
  

2024 Monthly Holidays that include July 5, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our July Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of July.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Tour de France - June 29 - July 21, 2024 - this is the world's most high profile bicycle race.
• Wimbledon - July 1-14, 2024 held at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in Southwest London, England.
• Anime Expo - July 4-7, 2024
• Roswell UFO Festival - July 5-7, 2024 - in Roswell, New Mexico

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for July 5 is Cancer.

Birth Flower of the Month

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for July is:

• Rubies which are said to guarantee health, wisdom, wealth, and success in love

Famous Birthdays

• 1586 - Thomas Hooker - English-American settler who founded the Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647)
• 1810 - P.T. Barnum - American businessman who co-founded Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)
• 1950 - Huey Lewis - American singer, songwriter and actor (Huey Lewis and the News)

Famous Deaths

• 1819 - William Cornwallis - English admiral and politician (b. 1744)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1911 - Author Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) marries Ewen MacDonald
• 1943 - Actress Betty Grable marries big bank leader Harry James
• 1957 - Singer and actor Frank Sinatra divorces actress Ava Gardner
• 1980 - Actress Raquel Welch marries producer Andre Weinfeld

Quote of the Day

I've had my "stuff" in storage since I sold my house a couple of years ago. I've been crashing at my parents house helping them out, but recently my brother and his wife and my parents put a deposit down on a house being built that has a suite apartment for my parents. While at their house, I had minimal "stuff", basically my clothes and my computer, tablet, and phone. No bills except for my car insurance on a 2007 sports car, and my storage unit.

I found I really liked the simplicity of not having much "stuff". 

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

It can be difficult to control emotional eating! We emotionally eat for many reasons. It is important to develop lifestyle solutions to end emotional eating. This can be done by creating a list of activities to do in emotional eating situations. Choose the activities you enjoy, and try one next time you want to eat emotionally.

See Kerry's list of activities to try instead of eating to control emotional eating on her Healthy Diet Habits website!

This Day in History

• 1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon
• 1915 - The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia to go to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
• 1934 - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. The day becomes known as "Bloody Thursday"
• 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act into law
• 1937 - Hormel Foods Corp. introduces Spam into the market
• 1943 - During World War II at the Battle of Kursk, German forces began a massive offensive against the Soviet Union
• 1945 - During World War II, the liberation of the Philippines is declared
• 1946 - The "BIKINI" is debuted at an outdoor fashion show in Paris, France and goes on sale
• 1950 - The Law of Return is passed by the Knesset which allows all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel
• 1954 - The first television news bulletin is broadcast by the BBC
• 1962 - After an 8 year war with France, Algeria declares their independance
• 1971 - President Richard Nixon certifies the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years
• 1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal
• 1996 - Dolly the sheep is the first mammal cloned from an adult cell
• 2004 - The first Indonesian Presidential election is held
• 2012 - The Shard in London becomes the tallest building in Europe with a height of 1,020 feet
• 2016 - The Juno space probe begins a 20 month survey of Jupiter
• 2018 - Lithuania becomes the 36th member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

This Day in Music

• 1954 - That's All Right is recorded by Elvis Presley as his first single
• 1969 - I'm Free is released by The Who
• 1974 - You're No Good is released by Linda Ronstadt
• 1994 - Crack Rear View, the debut album from Hootie & the Blowfish is released
• 1997 - The all-female Lilith Fair tour, organized by Sarah McLaughlan kicks off. Video below is Sarah McLaughlan, Jewel and the Indigo Girls singing The Water is Wide.

This Day in Sports

• 1974 - Chris Evert wins her first Wimbledon title
• 1975 - Arthur Ashe wins the Wimbledon singles title
• 1980 - Bjorn Borg from Swenden wins his fifth Winbledon tennis final and becomes the first male player to win the championships five times in a row (1976-1980)

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!