July 5

Events

• 1902: A powerful earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) strikes Thessaloniki
• 1928: Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party win the national elections.
• 1958: British troops fire upon civilian protesters in Avgorou, Cyprus, killing pregnant mother Loukia Papageorgiou.
• 1965: Maria Callas appears for the last time in an opera, at Covent Garden in London, in "Tosca" directed by Franco Zefirelli.
• 1970: Cyprus holds its second parliamentary elections with the abstention of the Turkish Cypriot community.
• 1994: The European Court declares the importation of products from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus "illegal and contrary to EU legislation".

Sports

• 1986: Nikos Galis scores a record 53 points as Greece beat Panama 110-81 for the World Basketball Championship in Zaragoza
• 1992: Nikos Galis leaves Aris Salonica when the club president president Theofilos Mitroudis offers him a coaching post suggesting he should stop his career as a player. Ten days later, Galis moves to Athens.
• 1998: Greek-American Pete Sampras wins his 5th successive Wimbledon title, equalling the record set by Bjorn Borg.

Births

• 1837: Patriarch Joachim IV of Constantinople

Deaths

• 2010: Yiannis Papaspyrou, politician, Mayor of Piraeus.