About February 5
February 5, 2025 is the 36th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 377 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 5
- 1576 –Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- 1778 –South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1818 –Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1852 –The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 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.
- 1900 –The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1946 –The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
- 1962 –French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- 1962 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 1971 –Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1972 –Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 1976 –The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- 1988 –Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1997 –The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 2004 –Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- 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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