Notable Historical Events on February 5th
February 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
816 |
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 Neth, drive nuns out |
1576 |
Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours |
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 |
1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut |
1649 |
Prince of Wales proclaimed King Charles II of Great Britian by Covenanter Parliament of Scotland |
1663 |
Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England |
1679 |
German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France |
1736 |
Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia |
1777 |
Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture |
1778 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina |
1782 |
Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from British |
1783 |
Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 |
1783 |
Sweden recognizes US independence |
1795 |
Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud |
1817 |
1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) |
1818 |
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
1825 |
Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar |
1831 |
Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 |
1846 |
"Oregon Spectator" is 1st 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 |
Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila |
1861 |
Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress (US Civil War) |
1864 |
Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi |
1865 |
Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) |
1870 |
1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia |
1879 |
Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow |
1881 |
Phoenix, Az incorporates |
1885 |
News of fall of Khartoum reaches London |
1885 |
King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession |
1887 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy |
1887 |
Snow falls on San Francisco |
1893 |
Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) |
1894 |
Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms |
1897 |
Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel |
1900 |
British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal |
1900 |
The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal |
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 |
1907 |
Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna |
1911 |
Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam |
1916 |
Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co |
1917 |
Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration |
1917 |
Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982) |
1917 |
The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year |
1918 |
1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson |
1918 |
Separation of church & state begins in USSR |
1919 |
NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers |
1921 |
Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium |
1922 |
Reader's Digest magazine 1st 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 SF |
1930 |
5th Aliyah to Israel begins |
1931 |
Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license |
1933 |
Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
1936 |
National Wildlife Federation forms |
1937 |
1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released |
1937 |
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed |
1938 |
Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) |
1940 |
Gen Winckelman replaces Gen 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, 1st transmission |
1944 |
358 RAF bombers attack Stettin |
1945 |
Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) |
1945 |
British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Crimea |
1945 |
US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
1946 |
The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. |
1947 |
Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland |
1948 |
"Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time |
1948 |
Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion |
1948 |
Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion |
1949 |
Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic |
1953 |
"Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC |
1953 |
5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes win |
1953 |
Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain |
1954 |
WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
1956 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
1956 |
NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build |
1957 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert |
1958 |
Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania) |
1958 |
Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
1958 |
Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain |
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 |
Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide |
1962 |
French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
1962 |
Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed |
1962 |
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16 degrees |
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 |
"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 wins olympic gold in the 1500m |
1968 |
Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins. |
1969 |
"Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly |
1969 |
US population reaches 200 million |
1969 |
Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins |
1970 |
1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six |
1970 |
Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban |
1970 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1970 |
WSCV TV channel 51 in Fort 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 hrs |
1972 |
"Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 |
1972 |
Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
1972 |
US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage |
1972 |
Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely |
1973 |
Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted |
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 mine strike |
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 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
1974 |
John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. |
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 |
"Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56 |
1977 |
"In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40 |
1977 |
"Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98 |
1977 |
"Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91 |
1977 |
General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio |
1977 |
Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
1977 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
1977 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
1978 |
Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded |
1979 |
Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time |
1979 |
Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS |
1980 |
32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit |
1980 |
Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel |
1981 |
"Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances |
1981 |
Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane |
1981 |
Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy |
1982 |
Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname |
1982 |
DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people |
1982 |
British airline Laker Airways collapses owing 270M pounds ($351M) |
1982 |
Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Neth |
1983 |
Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
1984 |
NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days |
1984 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
1986 |
Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" |
1987 |
Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time |
1987 |
Soyuz TM-2 launches |
1988 |
1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan |
1988 |
Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham |
1988 |
Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs |
1989 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points |
1990 |
Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) |
1991 |
A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
1991 |
All American Bowl ends after 14 years |
1991 |
Big East Football conference forms |
1991 |
Joni Mitchell inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame |
1991 |
LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points |
1991 |
Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl |
1992 |
Jury selection begins in the LA police beating Rodney King case |
1992 |
Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar |
1992 |
Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India |
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 |
Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime |
1995 |
Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections |
1995 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 |
1995 |
Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 |
1997 |
OJ Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson in a civil court action. |
1997 |
3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund |
1997 |
Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe) |
1997 |
Japan's Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products |
1998 |
Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini |
1998 |
Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record |
1998 |
Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd) |
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. |
2004 |
Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. |
2006 |
Super Bowl XL: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Seattle Seahawks, 21-10 at the Ford Field MVP: Hines Ward, Pittsburgh, WR |
2008 |
A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88. |
2009 |
The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef. |
2011 |
Ed Sabol, co-founder of NFL Films, elected for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
2012 |
Super Bowl XLVI: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 21-17 at the Lucas Oil Stadium MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB |
2013 |
UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage |
2013 |
The US Postal Service announces the cessation of Saturday first-class mail delivery from August 2013 |
2014 |
Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code |
2016 |
Magnitude-6.4 earthquake shocks Taiwan |
2016 |
Brazilian lab detects Zika virus in saliva, urine |
2017 |
Avalanche Kills 13 People in Pakistan's North |
2017 |
Girl, 13, Dies After Being Thrown Off Ride at China Park |
2017 |
Thousands march near Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Fla. |
2018 |
Philadelphia Eagles top New England Patriots to win their first Super Bowl |
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