February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years).
Holidays
- Christian Feast Day:
- Constitution Day (Mexico)
- Crown Princess Mary’s birthday (Denmark)
- Kashmir Day (Pakistan)
- Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation (San Marino)
- National Weatherperson’s Day (United States)
- Runeberg’s Birthday, where Runeberg’s tart are made specially for the holiday. (Finland)
- Unity Day (Burundi)
- Heroes’ Day (Mozambique)
- Bean Throwing Festival (Setsubun – Japan)
History
In AD 62, Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
In 756, An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
In 789, Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
In 1576, Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
In 1597, A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
In 1631, Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
In 1649, Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament
In 1778, South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
In 1782, Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
In 1783, In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
In 1807, HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
In 1810, Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
In 1818, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
In 1849, University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
In 1852, The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
In 1859, Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
In 1862, Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
In 1869, The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger“, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
In 1885, King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
In 1900, The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
In 1905, In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic.
In 1913, Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
In 1917, The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
In 1917, The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
In 1918, Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
In 1918, SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
In 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
In 1924, The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1939, Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th “Caudillo de España“, or Leader of Spain.
In 1941, World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
In 1945, World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
In 1946, The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
In 1958, Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
In 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.
In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
In 1963, The European Court of Justice‘s ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
In 1969, Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902) dies. She was an American actress, best known for her comedic roles as working class characters. She received six Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and won one Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Ritter’s first movie role was in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). She made a memorable impression in a brief uncredited part, as a frustrated mother unable to find the toy that Kris Kringle has promised her son. Her second role, in writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz‘s A Letter to Three Wives (1949), left a mark, although Ritter was again uncredited. Mankiewicz kept Ritter in mind, and cast her as “Birdie” in All About Eve (1950), which earned her an Oscar nomination. A second nomination followed for her work in Mitchell Leisen‘s’ classic ensemble screwball comedy The Mating Season (1951) starring Gene Tierney and John Lund. She enjoyed steady film work for the next dozen years.
In 1971, Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
In 1972, Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
In 1975, Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
In 1976, The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
In 1977, Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894) dies. He was a Swedish theoretical physicist. Klein is credited for inventing the idea, part of Kaluza–Klein theory, that extra dimensions may be physically real but curled up and very small, an idea essential to string theory / M-theory.
In 1985, Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
In 1988, Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
In 1991, Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903) dies. He was a film actor who received an Academy Award for his role in Henry King‘s Twelve O’Clock High (1949). Born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor, without becoming a major star, and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death. Jagger made his breakthrough to major roles in film with his portrayal of Brigham Young in Brigham Young (1940). He died from heart disease in Santa Monica, California. He was 87, and was buried in the small town of Hughson, California, at Lakewood Memorial Park.
In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
In 1994, During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
In 1995, Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935) passes. He was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 of the NBC western television series, The Virginian, loosely based on the Owen Wister novel. McClure died from lung cancer in Sherman Oaks, California. Doug had been a life long smoker. He was fifty-nine. He is interred at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, located at 1847 14th Street in Santa Monica, California. In addition to his fifth wife, he was survived by two daughters, Valerie and Tane McClure, who is an actress. McClure was twice divorced while he was a co-star of The Virginian.
In 1997, The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
In 2000, Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
In 2004, Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
In 2008, A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
In 2008, The Jackson Energy Authority Fitch Ratings for bonds are showing a negative direction. Fitch Ratings is a leading global rating agency committed to providing the world’s credit markets with independent, timely and prospective credit opinions. Fitch Ratings is dual-headquartered in New York and London, operating offices and joint ventures in more than 49 locations and covering entities in more than 90 countries, including insurer financial strength ratings on over 2,000 insurance companies. Fitch Ratings is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., an international business support services group headquartered in Paris, France.
The site will show that all areas of JEA except waste water past bonds and gas is downgrading either to AA or A. While this is not alarming to some; it shows that expansion with future taxpayer dollars would cost the utility and its citizens a great deal more than planned and the marketing of those bonds a little more difficult. While this doesn’t bring JEA down to junk status, it is one step closer to speculative.
In 2009, I had been telling the military this for some time now…. The Army recalled more than 8,000 bullet-resistant plates late last year for fear that they might not be able to stop the rifle rounds they were designed to defeat – one month before the Army agreed to pull 16,000 more plates after a government investigation cast doubt on their reliability. According to the top enlisted advisor for the Army’s Program Executive Office Soldier – the service’s top gear-buying office – officials were worried that a production lot of 8,018 enhanced small arms protective inserts, or ESAPIs, might have manufacturing flaws that earlier tests didn’t catch.
In 2009, Despite facing threats of disqualification, a 12-year-old girl took first place in a speech contest when she eloquently argued for the rights of unborn children – after an offended judge quit.
“What if I told you that right now, someone was choosing if you were going to live or die?” the seventh-grader begins in a video recording of her speech on YouTube. “What if I told you that this choice wasn’t based on what you could or couldn’t do, what you’d done in the past or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you, you could do nothing about it?”
In 2013, Twenty thousand dollars. That’s how much the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates the least expensive health insurance plan available under ObamaCare will cost the average family in 2016. The IRS issued a 73-page final regulation on January 30 to “provide guidance on the liability for the shared responsibility payment for not maintaining minimum essential coverage.” In other words, the agency was telling Americans what insurance they must have in order to avoid paying the penalty for noncompliance with the law — and what that penalty will be if they fail to comply.
In 2016, David Fowler, an attorney with the Constitutional Government Defense Fund, filed a second declaratory judgment lawsuit related to the legal, constitutional issues created by the United States Supreme Court’s decision on marriage June 26, 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges.
In 2019, Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
In 2020, United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
