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.

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