February 5
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 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
* 1924 - UTC: Hourly time signals from 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.
Births
* 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1850)
* 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (+ 1885)
* 1837 - Dwight L. Moody, evangelist
* 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (+ 1921)
* 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author (+ 1907)
* 1848 - Belle Starr, outlaw (+ 1889)
* 1878 - AndrŽ Citro‘n, automobile pioneer (+ 1935)
* 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, politician (+ 1965)
* 1904 - Walter Gross, cabaretist (+ 1989)
* 1906 - John Carradine, actor (+ 1988)
* 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses (+ 1969)
* 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author (+ 1997)
* 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (+ 1996)
* 1919 - Red Buttons, actor
* 1928 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
* 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, politician
* 1934 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer
* 1935 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 1994)
* 1940 - H.R. Giger, artist
* 1942 - Roger Staubach, Football Hall of Famer
* 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer
* 1943 - Craig Morton, American football star
* 1944 - Michael Mann, director, writer, producer
* 1944 - Al Kooper, musician
* 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
* 1969 - Bobby Brown, singer
Deaths
* 1946 - George Arliss, actor
* 1991 - Dean Jagger, actor
* 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director
Holidays and observances
* Catholicism - Feast day of St. Agatha.
