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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1 Events

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 broadcast 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.
1958 - A nuclear 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.

1971 - Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters ever to hit New England, formed.
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 for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people.

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 are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England.

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