January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death July 5, 1997
The temperature on July 5, 1997 was between 10.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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February 5 » The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
May 10 » The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
June 12 » Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
July 2 » The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
August 7 » Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
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