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
- 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 –Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- 1782 –Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
- 1783 –In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 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.
- 1869 –The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1900 –The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
- 1913 –Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
- 1918 –Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1924 –The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
- 1946 –The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
- 1963 –The European Court of Justice’s ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
- 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.
- 1982 –Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
- 1988 –Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 2000 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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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