About February 5
February 5, 2023 is the 36th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 370 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 5
- 62 –Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
- 1597 –A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1852 –The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1869 –The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1885 –King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1913 –Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
- 1917 –The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- 1918 –Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1919 –Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1924 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1958 –Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 1962 –French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- 1971 –Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1976 –The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2000 –Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2009 –The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.
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