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July 5[edit]
1805: Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle and a pioneering British meteorologist, was born in Suffolk, England.
1937: The temperature reached 45.0 °C (113.0 °F) at both Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan. This was the hottest temperature in the history of Saskatchewan, and until a 2021 heat wave was the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada.