{"id":23007,"date":"2020-08-05T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2020-08-05T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:11:21","slug":"history-of-5-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-5-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 5 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1990 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S. President George H.W.\nBush&nbsp;angrily denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.<\/li><li>1991 &#8211; An investigation was formally launched by\nDemocratic congressional leaders to find out if the release of American\nhostages was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election.<\/li><li>1991 &#8211; Iraq admitted to misleading U.N.\ninspectors about secret biological weapons.<\/li><li>1992 &#8211; Federal civil rights charges were filed\nagainst four Los Angeles police officers. The officers had been acquitted on\nCalifornia State charges. Two of the officers were convicted and jailed on\nviolation of civil rights charges.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began not\ncooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) hit\nhis 500th career homerun. He also set a record for the fewest at-bats to hit\nthe 500 homerun mark.<\/li><li>2002 &#8211; The U.S. closed its consulate in Karachi,\nPakistan. The consulate was closed after local authorities removed large\nconcrete blocks and reopened the road in front of the building to normal\ntraffic.<\/li><li>2009 &#8211; Google purchased its first public\ncompany. The company was the video software maker On2 Technologies.<\/li><li>2011 &#8211; NASA announced that its Mars\nReconnaissance Orbiter had captured photographic evidence of possible liquid\nwater on Mars during warm seasons.<\/li><li>2011 &#8211; Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral Air\nForce Station on a mission to Jupiter. It was the first solar-powered\nspacecraft to go to Jupiter.<\/li><li>2011 &#8211; Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s Financial Services\nlowered the United States&#8217; AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2012&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp;Wisconsin\n     Sikh temple shooting&nbsp;took place in&nbsp;Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing\n     six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by\n     police.<\/li><li>2015&nbsp;\u2013 The Environmental\n     Protection Agency at&nbsp;Gold King Mine waste water spill&nbsp;releases\n     three million gallons of&nbsp;heavy metal toxin tailings&nbsp;and waste\n     water into the&nbsp;Animas River&nbsp;in Colorado.<\/li><li>2019&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Revocation of\n     the special status&nbsp;of&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir (state)&nbsp;occurred\n     and the state was bifurcated into two union territories viz&nbsp;Jammu and\n     Kashmir (union territory)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ladakh.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_5#cite_note-4\"><sup>[<\/sup><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0David Clarke, English ice hockey player<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Carl Crawford, American baseball player<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Maik Franz, German footballer<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Erik Guay, Canadian skier<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Travie McCoy, American rapper, singer, and songwriter<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_5#cite_note-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Anna Rawson, Australian golfer<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Rachel Scott, American murder victim, inspired the\u00a0Rachel&#8217;s Challenge\u00a0(d. 1999)<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jamie Houston, English-German rugby player<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Lolo Jones, American hurdler<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Michele Pazienza, Italian footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Tobias Regner, German singer-songwriter<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Jeff Robson, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Pete Sell, American mixed martial artist<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Steve Matai, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Helene Fischer, German singer-songwriter<\/li><li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Gil Vermouth, Israeli footballer<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Erkan Zengin, Swedish footballer<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Paula Creamer, American golfer<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Kathrin Zettel, Austrian skier<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Genelia D&#8217;Souza, Indian actress<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Jamieson, Scottish-English swimmer<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryan Bertrand, English footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Mathieu Manset, French footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Jessica Nigri, American model and actress<\/li><li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Esteban Guti\u00e9rrez, Mexican race car driver<\/li><li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Konrad Hurrell, Tongan rugby league player<\/li><li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer<\/li><li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pierre-Emile H\u00f8jbjerg, Danish footballer<\/li><li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Takakeish\u014d Mitsunobu, Japanese sumo wrestler<\/li><li>1997\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jack Cogger, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1997 \u2013\u00a0Olivia Holt, American actress and singer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_5#cite_note-10\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1998\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mimi Keene, English actress<\/li><li>1998 \u2013\u00a0Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer and actress<\/li><li>2003\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Toni Shaw, British Paralympic swimmer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_5#cite_note-12\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S. President George H.W. Bush&nbsp;angrily denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 1991 &#8211; An investigation was formally launched by Democratic congressional leaders to find out if the release of American hostages was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election. 1991 &#8211; Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons. 1992 &#8211; Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[1344,1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history-of-5-august","9":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5Z5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23008,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions\/23008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}