About February 5
February 5, 2024 is the 36th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 5 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 5
- 62 –Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
- 1631 –Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- 1783 –In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1818 –Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1859 –Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
- 1885 –King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1917 –The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- 1918 –Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1924 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1937 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1939 –Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th “Caudillo de España”, or Leader of Spain.
- 1941 –World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
- 1971 –Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1988 –Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 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.
- 2000 –Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2004 –Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, 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.
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