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What happened on February 05 Please support our Sponsors - They help us keep this site Alive! 0816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity 1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons 1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna 1556 Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles 1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out 1576 Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. 1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 1644 First US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut 1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II 1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France 1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah GA 1777 Georgia becomes first US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture 1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by first state, South Carolina 1782 Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca (Western Mediterranean) 1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 1783 Sweden recognizes the United States as an independent country. 1795 Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French General Michaud 1811 UK hist Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane 1817 The first US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates first detachable shirt collar 1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 1846 "Oregon Spectator" is first newspaper to be published on the West Coast 1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz NY 1855 British government of Palmerston forms 1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities. 1861 First moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale 1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress 1864 Federals occupy Jackson MS 1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) 1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow 1881 Phoenix, Arizona, is incorporated as a city. 1885 King Lopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco 1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms 1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel 1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot 1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam 1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company 1917 Mexico adopts it's constitution. The country now celebrates Constitution Day on February 5th to commemorate the event. 1917 The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States. 1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. 1918 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson 1918 Separation of church & state begins in USSR 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium 1922 Reader's Digest magazine first published 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar 1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed 1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco 1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes first US women to earn a glider pilot license 1936 Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era, Modern Times. 1936 National Wildlife Federation forms 1937 First Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released 1937 U.S. president Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court. 1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500 meter (41.8 seconds) 1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander 1940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction" 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands 1942 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City 1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, first transmission 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69.6 kph (440 yards/20.8 seconds) 1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta 1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1945 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. 1946 The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland 1948 "The Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes first US woman Olympics slalom champion 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago 1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC 1953 5th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes win 1953 UK hist Sweet rationing ends in Britain 1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams MA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 7th Winter Olympics games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956 Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open 1956 New York Mayor Robert Wagner & Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30 million 1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert 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. 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as first US black foreign minister (Romania) 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances 1959 'The Day The Music Died' – plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper 1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Anthony Newley - Why 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1962 HSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial. 1962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16º 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island 1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) 1967 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m 1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins. 1969 "Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Move - Blackberry Way 1969 US population reaches 200 million 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice president, general manager & head coach of Redskins 1970 First Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale FL (IND) suspends broadcasting 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro; Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours 1971 Visitor posting - Five to No Legs Feeney - United Kingdom 1972 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 1972 Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. 1972 Bob Douglas is first black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - T Rex - Telegram Sam 1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage 1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuts 1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1974 British miner's strike 1974 John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win 1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph 1974 US Mariner 10 returns first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure 1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies 1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath 1977 "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67 1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio 1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his first pro fight 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time 1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel 1980 USS Coral Sea relieved Midway which had been on contingency operations in the Arabian Sea since the Iranian hostage crisis broke out in November 1979. 1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane 1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people 1982 Laker Airways collapse owing £270 million ($351 million) 1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Netherlands 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1984 New Zealand beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days 1985 Visitor posting - Jessica Katjomuise and Christian Ronaldo are born on this day - Namibia 1986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" 1987 Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for first time 1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches 1988 Andre The Giant wins the WWF Championship from Hulk Hogan, becoming the champion with the shortest reign (45 seconds) in the history of the WWF. 1988 Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham 1988 Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises 15 million in the United Kingdom for charity. 1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs 1988 The first prime-time wrestling match in 30 years-Andre the Giant beats Hulk Hogan 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points 1990 Visitor posting - Laura Davis was born! - USA 1991 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides 1991 Visitor posting - DaVonna Simmons was born. - USA davonna210@yahoo.com 1992 Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case 1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs India 1993 Visitor posting - Julie graced the Earth with her presence for the very first time. - USA 1993 Visitor posting - Victoria came upon this earth on a beautiful day - USA 1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160 1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA 1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV 1994 Visitor posting - Dylan Dalzell is born - USA 1994 Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. 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. 1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson MS, 30 years after the crime 1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party win local elections 1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe) 1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. 1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini 1999 Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year in a Maryland jail for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident. 2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. 2004 Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered. 2010 Visitor posting - Julie celebrates her 17th birthday. - USA 2010 Visitor posting - today Jorge Boada turns 60. Born Feb 5, 1950 - USA 2010 Visitor posting - Abraham- my birthday yaya - USA 2010 Visitor posting - Giuseppe Napier Rotondi turns 21 on this day! - USA More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at: info @ datesinhistory.com (remove the spaces) "This site contains links to other Internet sites. These links are not endorsements of any products or services in such sites, and no information in such site has been endorsed or approved by this site. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. We do not vouch for accuracy of the dates listed on this site." Privacy Policy . What happened on my birthday? Search other websites with Google If you added a Personal Historic listing - Find it on Google Get a HOUSE for $23,000 ?? 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