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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 years).
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.
- 1885 - King Leopold
II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal
possession.
- 1881 - Phoenix, Arizona
is incorporated.
- 1917 - The constitution of Mexico is
adopted.
- 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.
- 1924 - UTC: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcasted for the
first time.
- 1937 - President Franklin D.
Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1945 - World War II: General
Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1953 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York
City).
- 1958 - Gamel Abdel
Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United
Arab Republic.
- 1961 - The Sunday
Telegraph publishes its first issue.
- 1962 - French
President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
- 1971 - Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
- 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American
elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 1988 - Manuel Noriega is
indicted on drug smuggling
and money laundering charges.
- 1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
- 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.
- 1999 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a
year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the
August 31, 1998 assault on two people after
a car accident.
- 2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they had separated.
- 2003 - U.S.
plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.
- 2004 - 19 Chinese people drown when a group of
35 cockle-pickers (33 Chinese, 2 European) are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England, sparking
fears that criminal gangs are exploiting immigrant workers
Births
- 1600 - Dr. Johan Picardt, doctor and author
- 1608 - Caspar Schott, scientist
- 1626 - Marie Marquise de Sévigné, author
- 1748 - Christian Gottlieb Neefe, organist/composer
- 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom (d. 1850)
- 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, painter
(d. 1885)
- 1837 - Dwight L. Moody,
evangelist (d. 1899)
- 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop,
inventor (d. 1921)
- 1848 - Joris-Karl
Huysmans, author (d. 1907)
- 1848 - Belle Starr, outlaw (d. 1889)
- 1878 - André Citroën,
automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
- 1900 - Adlai Stevenson,
politician (d. 1965)
- 1904 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (d. 1989)
- 1906 - John Carradine, actor
(d. 1988)
- 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses (d. 1969)
- 1914 - William S.
Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
- 1919 - Red Buttons, actor
- 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
- 1928 - Andrew Greeley,
priest, novelist
- 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, politician
- 1930 - John A. Gambling,
radio show host (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1935 - Sandra Paretti, author (d. 1994)
- 1940 - H.R. Giger, artist
- 1941 - Kaspar Villiger,
former member of the Swiss
Federal Council
- 1942 - Roger Staubach,
Football Hall of Famer
- 1943 - Nolan Bushnell,
video game pioneer
- 1943 - Craig Morton, American football star
- 1944 - Al Kooper, musician
- 1944 - Michael Mann, director,
writer, producer
- 1945 - Charlotte
Rampling, actress
- 1947 - Darrell Waltrip,
automobile racer
- 1948 - Christopher
Guest, actor, writer, director, composer
- 1948 - Barbara Hershey,
actress
- 1964 - Laura Linney, actress
- 1964 - Duff McKagen, Guns N'Roses
- 1968 - Roberto Alomar,
baseball player
- 1969 - Bobby Brown, singer
- 1972 - Mary E. Donaldson, Crown Princess of Denmark
Deaths
- 995 - William IV,
Duke of Aquitaine
- 1818 - King Charles XIII / Carl II of
Sweden-Norway (b. 1748)
- 1881 - Thomas Carlyle,
essayist and historian (b. 1795)
- 1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
- 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b.
1871)
- 1946 - George Arliss, actor (b.
1868)
- 1966 - Ludwig
Binswanger, existential psychiatrist (b. 1881)
- 1972 - Marianne Moore,
poet (b. 1887)
- 1991 - Dean Jagger, actor
- 1993 - Joseph L.
Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director (b. 1909)
Holidays and observances
February 4 - February 6 -
January 5 - March 5 -- listing of all days
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