February 5
February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 329 days remaining (330 in
leap years).
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Events
\n*1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.\n*1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.\n*1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.\n*1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. \n*1846 - The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States. \n*1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. \n*1881 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated. \n*1917 - The constitution of Mexico is adopted.\n*1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.\n*1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.\n*1924 - UTC: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcast for the first time. \n*1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States. \n*1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.\n*1953 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City). \n*1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. \n*1961 - The Sunday Telegraph publishes its first issue. \n*1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation. \n*1971 - Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.\n*1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.\n*1988 - Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.\n*1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.\n*1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. \n*1997 - The so-called "Big Three" banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. \n* 1997 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.\n*1999 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people. \n*2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they had separated. \n*2003 - U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.\n*2004 - 19 Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England.
Births
\n*1600 - Dr. Johan Picardt, doctor and author\n*1608 - Caspar Schott, scientist\n*1626 - Marie Marquise de Sévigné, author\n*1748 - Christian Gottlieb Neefe, organist/composer\n*1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)\n*1808 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (d. 1885)\n*1837 - Dwight L. Moody, evangelist (d. 1899)\n*1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (d. 1921)\n*1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author (d. 1907)\n* 1848 - Belle Starr, outlaw (d. 1889)\n*1878 - André Citroën, automobile pioneer (d. 1935)\n*1900 - Adlai Stevenson, politician (d. 1965)\n*1904 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (d. 1989)\n*1906 - John Carradine, actor (d. 1988)\n*1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses (d. 1969)\n*1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)\n*1919 - Red Buttons, actor\n* 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)\n*1928 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist\n*1929 - Fred Sinowatz, politician\n*1930 - John A. Gambling, radio show host (d. 2004)\n*1934 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer\n*1935 - Sandra Paretti, author (d. 1994)\n*1940 - H.R. Giger, artist\n*1941 - Kaspar Villiger, former member of the Swiss Federal Council\n*1942 - Roger Staubach, Football Hall of Famer\n*1943 - Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer\n* 1943 - Craig Morton, American football star\n*1944 - Al Kooper, musician\n* 1944 - Michael Mann, director, writer, producer\n*1945 - Charlotte Rampling, actress\n*1947 - Darrell Waltrip, automobile racer\n*1948 - Christopher Guest, actor, writer, director, composer\n* 1948 - Barbara Hershey, actress\n*1956 - Richard S. Stamos New York artist, scientist, writer, "Cartesan Agnostic.\n*1964 - Laura Linney, actress\n* 1964 - Duff McKagen, Guns N'Roses\n*1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian alpine skier (d. 1993)\n*1968 - Roberto Alomar, baseball player\n*1969 - Bobby Brown, singer\n*1972 - Mary E. Donaldson, Crown Princess of Denmark\n*1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, football player
Deaths
\n*995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine\n*1818 - King Charles XIII / Carl II of Sweden-Norway (b. 1748)\n*1881 - Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian (b. 1795)\n*1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)\n*1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)\n*1946 - George Arliss, actor (b. 1868)\n*1966 - Ludwig Binswanger, existential psychiatrist (b. 1881)\n*1972 - Marianne Moore, poet (b. 1887)\n*1991 - Dean Jagger, actor\n*1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director (b. 1909)
Holidays and observances
\n*Catholicism - Feast day of St. Agatha.
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February 4 -
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January 5 -
March 5 --
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