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February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 329 days remaining (330 in Leap Year s).
Events
- 1576 - Henry Of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France .
- 1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston .
- 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles Of Confederation .
- 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca .
- 1846 - '' The Oregon Spectator '' becomes the first Newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States .
- 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
- 1881 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.
- 1885 - King Léopold II Of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1917 - The Current Constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a Federal Republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- 1917 - The Congress Of The United States passes a Law , over President Woodrow Wilson 's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States .
- 1919 - Charlie Chaplin , Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks , and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists .
- 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of '' Reader's Digest ''. (Some sources say February 7 .)
- 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the " BBC Pips ".
- 1936 - Charlie Chaplin releases the last ever silent movie, Modern Times .
- 1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court Of The United States .
- Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila .
- 1946 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea .
- 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic .
- 1958 - A Hydrogen Bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia , never to be recovered.
- 1961 - The '' Sunday Telegraph '' publishes its first issue.
- 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
- 1968 - The Battle Of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War begins.
- 1971 - Apollo 14 lands on the Moon .
- 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall Of Fame .
- 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress Of The United States .
- 1978 - The Blizzard Of 1978 , one of the worst Nor'easter s ever to hit New England , forms.
- 1988 - Manuel Noriega is indicted on Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering charges.
- 1988 - Comic Relief hold the first " Red Nose Day ", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for Charity .
- 1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in Suicide s.
- 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers .
- 1997 - The so-called Big Three Banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 1997 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.
- addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq .
- 2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 Cockle -pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay , England . Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
- 2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves , starting the 2004 Haiti Rebellion .
- 2006 - Pittsburgh Steelers win their 5th Super Bowl, beating the Seattle Seahawks, 21-10.
Births
- 976 - Sanjo , Emperor Of Japan (d. 1017 )
- 1505 - Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss historian (d. 1572 )
- 1519 - René Of Châlon , Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544 )
- 1534 - Giovanni De' Bardi , Italian writer, composer, and soldier (d. 1612 )
- 1589 - Esteban Manuel De Villegas , Spanish poet (d. 1669 )
- 1626 - Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sévigné , French author (d. 1696 )
- 1650 - Anne-Jules, 2nd Duc De Noailles , French general (d. 1708 )
- 1703 - Gilbert Tennent , Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764 )
- 1725 - James Otis , American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783 )
- 1788 - Robert Peel , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1850 )
- 1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter Von Haidinger , Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871 )
- 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Finnish poet (d. 1877 )
- 1808 - Carl Spitzweg , German painter (d. 1885 )
- 1810 - Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist (d. 1880 )
- 1837 - Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist (d. 1899 )
- 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish inventor (d. 1921 )
- 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author (d. 1907 )
- 1848 - Belle Starr , American outlaw (d. 1889 )
- 1878 - André Citroën , French automobile pioneer (d. 1935 )
- 1880 - Gabriel Voisin , French aviation pioneer (d. 1973 )
- 1889 - Ernest Tyldesley , British cricketer (d. 1962 )
- 1900 - Adlai Stevenson , American politician (d. 1965 )
- 1906 - John Carradine , American actor (d. 1988 )
- 1908 - Daisy And Violet Hilton , British conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969 )
- 1910 - Francisco Varallo , Argentine footballer
- 1911 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960 )
- 1914 - William S. Burroughs , American author (d. 1997 )
- 1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin , British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1998 )
- 1915 - Robert Hofstadter , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
- 1918 - Tim Holt , American actor (d. 1973 )
- 1919 - Red Buttons , American actor
- 1919 - Andreas Papandreou , Greek politician (d. 1996 )
- 1921 - John Pritchard , British conductor (d. 1989 )
- 1923 - Claude King , American musician
- 1927 - Ruth Fertel , American entrepreneur (d. 2002 )
- 1928 - Andrew Greeley , American priest and novelist
- 1929 - Luc Ferrari , French composer (d. 2005 )
- 1929 - Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician
- 1929 - Al Worthington , baseball player
- 1930 - John A. Gambling , American radio show host (d. 2004 )
- 1933 - Jörn Donner , Finnish writer, film director, producer and politician
- 1934 - Don Cherry , Canadian NHL Hockey player and coach, and "CBC's Hockey Night in Canada" Commentator
- 1934 - Hank Aaron , baseball player
- 1937 - Stuart Damon , American actor
- 1937 - Wang Xuan , Chinese scientist, the "Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting"
- 1940 - H.R. Giger , Swiss artist
- 1941 - Jane Bryant Quinn , American journalist
- 1941 - David Selby , American actor
- 1941 - Kaspar Villiger , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1942 - Roger Staubach , American football player
- 1943 - Nolan Bushnell , American video game pioneer
- 1943 - Michael Mann , American film director, writer, and producer
- 1943 - Craig Morton , American football player
- 1944 - Al Kooper , American musician
- 1945 - Charlotte Rampling , British actress
- 1947 - Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver
- 1948 - Christopher Guest , American actor, writer, director, and composer
- 1948 - Barbara Hershey , American actress
- 1948 - Errol Morris , American film director
- 1948 - V. Alexander Stefan , American physicist, educator, and writer
- 1949 - Nigel Olsson , drummer
- 1953 - John Beilein , American head coach of the West Virginia University men's basketball team
- 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress
- 1964 - Laura Linney , American actress
- 1964 - Duff McKagen , American musician ( Guns N' Roses )
- 1965 - Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian footballer
- 1966 - Rok Petrovič , Slovenian skier (d. 1993 )
- 1968 - Roberto Alomar , baseball player
- 1969 - Bobby Brown , American singer
- 1971 - Sara Evans , American singer
- 1972 - Mary, Crown Princess Of Denmark
- 1972 - Koriki Choshu , Japanese comedian
- 1976 - Tony Jaa , Thai actor
- 1976 - Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor
- 1977 - Ben Ainslie , British sailor
- 1977 - Ahmad Merritt , American football player
- 1980 - Robin Vik , Czech Tennis player
- 1980 - Jo Swinson , British Politician
- 1984 - Carlos Tévez , Argentinine footballer
- 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer
- 1986 - Reed Sorenson , NASCAR Driver
- 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter , American actor
Deaths
- 995 - William IV, Duke Of Aquitaine (b. 937 )
- 1520 - Sten Sture The Younger , regent of Sweden (b. 1493 )
- 1578 - Giambattista Moroni , Italian painter
- 1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener , German theologian (b. 1635 )
- 1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun , Austrian field marshal (b. 1705 )
- 1775 - Eusebius Amort , German Catholic theologian (b. 1692 )
- 1790 - William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710 )
- 1807 - Pasquale Paoli , Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725 )
- 1818 - King Charles XIII Of Sweden (b. 1748 )
- 1881 - Thomas Carlyle , Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795 )
- 1915 - Ross Barnes , baseball player (b. 1850 )
- 1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 )
- 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , Croatian inventor (b. 1871 )
- 1922 - Christiaan De Wet , South African general
- 1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome , Russian-born writer (b. 1861 )
- 1946 - George Arliss , English actor (b. 1868 )
- 1962 - Jacques Ibert , French composer (b. 1890 )
- 1966 - Ludwig Binswanger , Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1881 )
- 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean , American department store founder (b. 1872 )
- 1970 - Rudy York , baseball player (b. 1913 )
- 1972 - Marianne Moore , American poet (b. 1887 )
- 1976 - Rudy Pompilli , American musician ( Bill Haley And His Comets ) (b. 1926 )
- 1977 - Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist (b. 1894 )
- 1981 - Ella Grasso , Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919 )
- 1991 - Dean Jagger , American actor (b. 1903 )
- 1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian , Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913 )
- 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909 )
- 1995 - Doug McClure , American actor (b. 1935 )
- 1997 - Pamela Harriman , English-born American diplomat (b. 1920 )
- 1999 - Wassily Leontief , Russian economist, Bank Of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1906 )
- 2003 - Helge Boes , American Central Intelligence Agency officer
- 2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema , President Of Togo (b. 1937 )
- 2006 - Norma Candal , Puerto Rican actress and comedienne (b. 1930 )
- 2006 - Franklin Cover , American actor (b. 1928 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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