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What happend on 5. February in History
In our data base we found 320 events happened on 5. February:
• 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. [category: Events]
• 523: Avitus, archbishop of Vienne [category: Deaths]
• 976: Emperor Sanjō, of Japan (d. 1017) [category: Births]
• 1505: Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572) [category: Births]
• 1519: René of Châlon, (d. 1544) [category: Births]
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• 1520: Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493) [category: Deaths]
• 1534: Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612) [category: Births]
• 1576: Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. [category: Events]
• 1578: Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24) [category: Deaths]
• 1589: Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669) [category: Births]
• 1594: Biagio Marini, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer (d. 1663) [category: Births]
• 1597: A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. [category: Events]
• 1608: Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666) [category: Births]
• 1626: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696) [category: Births]
• 1631: Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. [category: Events]
• 1650: Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708) [category: Births]
• 1703: Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764) [category: Births]
• 1705: Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635) [category: Deaths]
• 1725: James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783) [category: Births]
• 1744: John Jeffries, Physician, Surgeon, Balloonist (d. 1819) [category: Births]
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• 1748: Christian Gottlob Neefe, German opera composer and conductor (d. 1798) [category: Births]
• 1754: Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch cartographer (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1766: Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) [category: Deaths]
• 1775: Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [category: Events]
• 1782: Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. [category: Events]
• 1783: In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. [category: Events]
• 1784: Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1788: Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1790: William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1804: Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1807: Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1808: Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885) [category: Births]
• 1810: Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880) [category: Births]
• 1810: Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. [category: Events]
• 1818: Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. [category: Events]
• 1837: Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899) [category: Births]
• 1840: Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1840: John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1848: Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1848: Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1848: Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907) [category: Births]
• 1852: The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1869: The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. [category: Events]
• 1878: André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1880: Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1881: Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1882: Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (b. 1841) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Burton Downing, American racing cyclist (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1885: King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. [category: Events]
• 1889: Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1892: Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: Dirk Stikker, Dutch banker, industrialist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1900: Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1900: The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal. [category: Events]
• 1903: Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1906: John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1907: Pierre Pflimlin, French Politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1908: Bob Dunn (musician), pioneer Western swing musician (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1908: Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1908: Mietje Baron, Dutch swimmer (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1908: Peg Entwistle, English actress (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1909: Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish composer and violinist (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1909: Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. [category: Events]
• 1910: Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1910: Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1911: Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1913: Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. [category: Events]
• 1914: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1914: William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1915: Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1915: Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1917: Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1917: The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. [category: Events]
• 1918: SS Tuscania (1914) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. [category: Events]
• 1918: Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. [category: Events]
• 1919: Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1919: Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1919: Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1919: Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1919: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. [category: Events]
• 1920: Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1921: John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1922: Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1922: Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Claude King, American musician [category: Births]
• 1923: Fatmawati, Indonesian First Lady [category: Births]
• 1924: The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". [category: Events]
• 1926: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1927: Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch pilot (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1927: Robert Allen, pianist and composer of popular songs (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1927: Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1927: Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist [category: Births]
• 1929: Al Worthington, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1929: Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1929: Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1930: John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1931: Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician (b. 1849) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1933: Jörn Donner, Finnish director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1933: Norm Grabowski, American actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1933: Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey commentator [category: Births]
• 1934: Hank Aaron. American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1935: Alex Harvey, Scottish rock musician (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1935: Michel Steininger, Swiss fencer [category: Births]
• 1936: K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Kannada Poet [category: Births]
• 1937: Gaston Roelants, Belgian athlete [category: Births]
• 1937: Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1937: Stuart Damon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1937: Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1937: Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States. [category: Events]
• 1938: Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1939: Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain. [category: Events]
• 1940: Dick Warlock, Canadian actor and stuntman [category: Births]
• 1940: H.R. Giger, Swiss artist [category: Births]
• 1941: David Selby, American actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Jaap Blokker, Dutch businessman (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1941: Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor [category: Births]
• 1941: Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. [category: Events]
• 1942: Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night) [category: Births]
• 1942: Roger Staubach, American football player [category: Births]
• 1942: Stephen J. Cannell. American television producer and writer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1943: Craig Morton, American football player [category: Births]
• 1943: Michael Mann, American film director [category: Births]
• 1943: Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer [category: Births]
• 1944: Al Kooper, American musician [category: Births]
• 1944: James B. Cobb, Jr., American guitarist (Classics IV) [category: Births]
• 1944: Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1945: World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. [category: Events]
• 1946: Charlotte Rampling, British actress [category: Births]
• 1946: George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. [category: Events]
• 1947: Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1948: Barbara Hershey, American actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Christopher Guest, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1948: Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1948: Errol Morris, American director [category: Births]
• 1948: Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager [category: Births]
• 1948: Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Yvon Vallières, French-Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Jonathan Freeman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Russell Grant, British astrologer [category: Births]
• 1952: Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1952: Adela Verne, English pianist (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: John Beilein, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1953: Loretta Tofani, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1953: Takashi Ishikawa, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1954: Cliff Martinez, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies) [category: Births]
• 1955: Mike Heath, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1955: Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Betty Ong, Flight attendant of American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001 (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1956: Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver [category: Births]
• 1957: Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. [category: Events]
• 1958: Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. [category: Events]
• 1959: Jennifer Granholm American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan [category: Births]
• 1960: Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor [category: Births]
• 1961: Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1962: Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. [category: Events]
• 1963: Steven Shainberg, American film director [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1964: Duff McKagan, American musician (Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver) [category: Births]
• 1964: Laura Linney, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Andreas Vogler, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Keith Moseley, American musician (The String Cheese Incident) [category: Births]
• 1966: Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer [category: Births]
• 1966: José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer [category: Births]
• 1966: Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1967: Chris Parnell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician [category: Births]
• 1967: Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor [category: Births]
• 1968: Qasim Melho, Syrian actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Bobby Brown, American singer (New Edition) [category: Births]
• 1969: Michael Sheen, Welsh actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Michel Breistroff, French hockey player (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1971: Sara Evans, American singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. [category: Events]
• 1972: Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian [category: Births]
• 1972: Kristopher Carter, American composer [category: Births]
• 1972: Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark [category: Births]
• 1972: Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. [category: Events]
• 1973: Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1973: Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer [category: Births]
• 1975: Adam Carson, American musician (AFI) [category: Births]
• 1975: Brainpower, Dutch rapper [category: Births]
• 1975: Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. [category: Events]
• 1976: Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Brian Moorman, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: John Aloisi, Australian soccer player [category: Births]
• 1976: Tony Jaa, Thai actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ. [category: Events]
• 1977: Adam Everett, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Ahmad Merritt, American football player [category: Births]
• 1977: Ben Ainslie, British sailor [category: Births]
• 1977: Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Brian Russell, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Shawn Reaves, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer [category: Births]
• 1980: Jo Swinson, British politician [category: Births]
• 1980: Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty [category: Births]
• 1980: Robin Vik, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1980: Stefano Di Fiordo, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Loukas Vyntra, Greek football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Nora Zehetner, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1982: Deidra Dionne, Canadian freestyle skier [category: Births]
• 1982: Dionysis Makris, Greek singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Kevin Everett, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Marc Kennedy, Canadian Curler [category: Births]
• 1982: Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Wheesung, Korean R&B singer [category: Births]
• 1984: Carlos Tévez, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Nate Salley, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Crystal Hunt, American actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Laurence Maroney, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Lindsey Cardinale, American singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Robert Lijesen, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1985: Georges-Émile Lapalme, French-Canadian politician (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: 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. [category: Events]
• 1986: Ashley Simmons, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1986: Billy Sharp, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver [category: Births]
• 1986: Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Darren Criss, American actor, singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1987: William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Johnathan Haggerty, American football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Kevin J. Maclean, Scottish singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1988: Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. [category: Events]
• 1989: Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Jeremy Sumpter, American actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Marina Melnikova, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1990: Marvin Knoll, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model [category: Births]
• 1991: Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Neymar, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer (Cute) [category: Births]
• 1994: Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1995: Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: René Huyghe, French writer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. [category: Events]
• 1998: Tim Kelly, American musician (Slaughter) (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. [category: Events]
• 2001: Jean Davy, French voice actor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Davis Cleveland, American actor [category: Births]
• 2003: Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: John Hench, American animator (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2005: Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Henri Rochon, Canadian tennis player (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995) (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2010: Brendan Burke, Gay rights activist, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke (b. 1988) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Brian Jacques, English author (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Peggy Rea, American actress (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Al De Lory, American musician, producer, and conductor (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bill Hinzman, American actor and director (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Blaine, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jens Jungmark, Sweish Sound Director For Ubisoft (b. 1978) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jiang Ying, Chinese singer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• _: Agatha of Sicily [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Mexico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Kashmir Day (Pakistan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation (San Marino) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Weatherperson's Day (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Runeberg's Birthday, where Runeberg's tart are made specially for the holiday. (Finland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Unity Day (Burundi) [category: Holidays and observances]