July 5, 2004
- Basketball: Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski turns down an offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers, opting to stay with Duke University. (ESPN)
- Major League Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers closer Éric Gagné fails to hold a 5–3 lead in the ninth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks; the Dodgers go on to win the game 6–5 in 10 innings. This ends Gagné's record streak of consecutive saves at 84, and is his first blown save since August 26, 2002. (ESPN)
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“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)