February 5

Holidays

• Kashmir Day observes as public holiday in Pakistan.
• Catholicism - Feast day of Saint Agatha of Sicily, patron saint of firework makers and glass blowers.
• Saint Bertolf

Events

• 2019 Syrian Civil War: Ben Wallace, the United Kingdom Minister of Security, stated that he believes John Cantlie, a British photojournalist, is still alive and being held hostage in Syria by Islamic State militants.
• 2018 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 2018 Ariel stabbing: A Palestinian rabbi is killed by an Israeli Arab outside of the Israeli-occupied West Bank settlement at Ariel.
• 2017 In Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, heavy snowfall and avalanches have killed dozens of people. Kabul International Airport has been closed due to snow and/or ice. (BBC),
• 2016 Syrian Civil War: The Syrian Army, along with its allies, capture Ataman near Daraa. (Reuters)Fifteen thousand Syrians converge on the border with Turkey in response to the offensive by the Syrian Government in the Aleppo Governorate.
• 2015 Syrian Civil War: After a video showing a Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, the United Arab Emirates has suspended air strikes against Islamic State. Concerns over the lack of coordination search and rescue capabilities in Syria to retrieve downed pilots led to the suspension. (NBC News)State news agency SANA reports that Jaysh al-Islam, an insurgent group, has launched a rocket attack against Damascus, causing at least eight injuries.
• 2014 Iraqi insurgency after the U.S. withdrawal: At least 16 people are killed by a wave of bombings in central Baghdad.
• 2013 Senkaku Islands dispute: Itsunori Onodera, the Japanese Defense Minister, states that Japan has filed a protest against China following a People's Liberation Army Navy Navy frigate's directed weapon-targeting radar at a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer close to the disputed Senkaku Islands.
• 2012 An explosion occurs in the pipeline connecting Egypt, Israel, and Jordan in the North Sinai Governorate west to Arish.
• 2011 Protests in Egypt 2011:
• 2010 Two separate bombings in Karachi result in at least 22 deaths and more than 50 injuries.
• 2009 The United States Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal, a United States Navy guided missile cruiser, ran aground off Oahu in Hawaii. It also damaged a coral reef.
• 2008 (February 6 - A tornado outbreak kills 58 people in the Southern United States.
• 2007 U.S. Presidential Election 2008: Rudy Giuliani (R), former mayor of New York City, officially files for candidacy as President of the United States of America.
• 2006 American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Super Bowl XL.
• 2005 NATO helicopters found the wreckage of a Kam Air Boeing 737 passenger jet in Afghanistan, mountains east of Kabul. All 104 passengers are presumed to have died.
• 2004 John Hench dies, at age 95. Hench was the longest-serving Disney employee for 64 years. He was an animator and participated in the creation all Disney parks.
• 2003 The U.S. Secretaryof State Colin Powell addresses United Nations Security Council about Iraq. He gives evidence that Iraq tried to hide weapons of mass destruction from inspectors.
• 2002 According to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the United States would be willing to sign a treaty on strategic nuclear weapons with Russia. This indicates a shift in policy by the administration after it resigned from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. In May, President George W. Bush will host a summit on arms reduction in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin.
• 2001 Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise announced their separation.
• 2000 Russian forces killed at least 60 civilians in Novye Aldi, Grozny.
• 1999 Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people after a car accident.
• 1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
• 1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
• 1995 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13.
• 1994 Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego, debuts on Fox TV
• 1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act.
• 1992 Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case
• 1991 Joni Mitchell inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame.
• 1990 Notre Dame becomes first team to sell its game to a major network (NBC).
• 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points.
• 1988 Arizona House of Representatives votes to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham.
• 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Average average closes above 2,200 for first time.
• 1986 Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on Nightline
• 1985 Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
• 1984 Patty Sheehan win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
• 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
• 1982 Chin A Sen ends term as President of Suriname
• 1981 Piaf opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances
• 1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit.
• 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time.
• 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free-throws blindfolded.
• 1977 CB Savage by Rod Hart peaks at #67
• 1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies.
• 1974 British mine strike
• 1973 Comic strip Hagar The Horrible debuted
• 1972 Another Puff by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
• 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours
• 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting
• 1969 Turn-On, debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
• 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres on CBS
• 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island.
• 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
• 1964 Kashmir Day On February 5, 1964, India backed out of its promise to hold plebiscite in disputed territory of Kashmir. Instead, in March 1965, the Indian Parliament passed a bill, declaring Kashmir a province of India. In 1948, India had taken the issue of Kashmir to the United Nations Security Council and offered to hold a plebiscite in the held Kashmir under UN supervision.
• 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure
• 1962 Law suit to bar Englewood, New Jersey, from "racial segregated" schools is filed.
• 1961 February 9 ampndash In Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu names Joseph Ileo as the new Prime Minister.
• 1960 The first CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1959 Redhead opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 455 performances
• 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black Foreign Minister
• 1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
• 1956 Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open.
• 1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Peter Pan by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City
• 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• 1948 Nature of Things science show premieres on NBC prime time
• 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland.
• 1946 The United States recognizes the government of Romania.
• 1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla, Philippines.
• 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin, Germany.
• 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots German General Seyffardt.
• 1942 Woman of the Year, starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City
• 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to the Netherlands
• 1940 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record Tuxedo Junction
• 1939 Generalisimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th ''Caudillo de Espana'', or Leader of Spain.
• 1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500 metre (41.8 seconds).
• 1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, court packing plan failed
• 1936 National Wildlife Federation forms.
• 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch / German boundary
• 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
• 1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
• 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the ''BBC pips''.
• 1923 Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy.
• 1922 Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
• 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists film studio in the USA.
• 1918 Separation of church and state begins in the USSR
• 1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th Steet New York City (demolished 1982).
• 1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
• 1913 Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam.
• 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends.
• 1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp.
• 1900 The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on February 5?

• Jennifer Jason Leigh

  American actress.

• Charlotte Rampling

  British actress, a provocative lead of British and international films.

• Abhishek Bachchan

  Indian actor.

• William Burroughs

  American writer, bisexual and heroin addict.

• Jeremy Sumpter

  American actor.

• Barbara Hershey

  American actress with a hippie image during the '60s, who changed her last name to "Seagull" for awhile.

• Michael Sheen

  Movie Actor.

• Laura Linney

  American actress.

• Nora Zehetner

  American actress.

• Benoît Jacquot

  French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema.

• Jussi Björling

  Swedish tenor (d. 1960).

• Michael Mann

  American filmmaker, the author of screenplays and a director and producer.

• David Selby

  American actor, tall and muscular, started out as one of TV's most famous vampires, Quentin, on "Dark Shadows" in the late '60s.

• Tim Meadows

  TV Actor.

• David Ladd

  American actor, filmmaker and noted family, the son of actor Alan Ladd.

• Adlai Stevenson

  American politician and statesman.

• Red Buttons

  American actor and singer (d. 2006).

• Andrew Greeley

  American ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, educator and writer, the author of more than 30 best-selling novels, in...

• Sara Foster

  American actress.

• Mia Hansen-Løve

  French director and screenwriter.

• Regina Duarte

  Brazilian actress.

• Isuzu Yamada

  Japanese actress (d. 2012).

• Chris Parnell

  American actor.

• Matt Testro

  TV Actor.

• Tony Johnson

  tight end (New Orleans Saints).

• Cristiano Ronaldo

  Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national...

• Anti-Christ

  Divine figure prophesied by Dixon to bring catastrophes, "A propagator of a doctrine of such persuasive appeal that it will spread like...

• Daniel Balavoine

  French singer and songwriter (d. 1986).

• Bobby Brown

  American musician whose breakthrough album was "Don't Be Cruel," 1988.

• Neymar

  Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for FC Barcelona (since summer 2013) and the Brazilian national team, mainly as a forward.

• Nabilla
• Mary Crown Princess of Denmark
• Jorge Ferreira
• Julie Zenatti

  French singer born in an Algerian jewish family.

• Cesare Maldini

  Italian football coach (soccer) of the World Cup fixtures 1998.

• Nicolae Ceausescu

  Romanian politician, an indestructible dictator for 24 years and one of history's mass murderers.

• Martine Barbault

  French astrologer and member of a noted French astrology family, the niece of Andre and Armand Barbault and sister of Robert Barbault.

• Olivia Adriaco
• Darren Criss

  American actor, singer.

• Tony Jaa

  Movie Actor.

• H R Giger
• Duff McKagan

  American musician (Guns N' Roses).

• Claude Giraud
• Tatiana Silva

  Belgian model, born to a father coming from Capo Verde, she was elected "Miss Belgium" in 2005 when she was working to become a personal...

• Azouz Begag

  French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS.

• Hank Aaron

  American baseball player, a great batting champ and one of the first of baseball's black super-stars.

• Russell Grant

  British actor in more than 30 musicals and comedies.

• Sara Evans

  American singer.

• Dominique Besnehard

  French actor, film producer, casting director, writer and talent manager of Marlene Jobert and others.

• José-Maria Olazabal
• Carlos Tevez

  Argentinine footballer.

• Marcus Grönholm

  Finnish race car driver.

• Andreas Papandreou

  Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece longer than any other in modern Greece, eight consecutive years which almost...

• Laurent Broomhead

  French TV journalist, a weather presenter and for the last ten years one of the stars of Pyramide, a daily TV show where the contestants...

• Nordin Jbari
• Alex Harvey

  Scottish musician, a singer, songwriter, performer and player of the guitar and banjo.

• Eugen Weidmann

  German kidnapper and homicide who killed an estimated 86 people.

• Jean-Paul Dupré
• Pascal de Duve
• Trayvon Martin
• Hervé Ghesquière
• John Carradine

  American actor, dies at age 82 of kidney failure (born 1906).

• Roberto Alomar

  Puerto Rican baseball player, a 2nd baseman for the Baltimore Orioles.

• Gheorghe Hagi

  Romanian footballer.

• Michel Béna
• Siegfried Kessler
• Mister You
• Emile Ajar
• Attila Sávolt
• Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Swedish football manager.

• Luc Ferrari

  French composer (Born 1929).

• Roger Staubach

  American football quarterback, one of the all-time greats, winner of the Heisman Trophy 11/26/1963.

• Laurence Vichnievsky
• Manuel Orantes
• Hans Bender

  German psychologist, parapsychologist and physiologist who wrote on ESP, psychokinesis, poltergeists, mediumship, spontaneous phenomena and...

• Ken Adam

  German-English production designer and art director.

• Mathieu Delarive

  French actor and noted famiy member, he is the son of Anthony Quinn and French director Agnes Delarive.

• Robert James Atkins
• Jean-Marc Aubert
• John Callahan (cartoonist)
• Gaston Roelants

  Dutch field and track star, the winner of a Gold Medal at the Tokyo Olympics 1964 for the 3000 m. steeplechase.

• Stephen J Cannell
• Henri Gruel

  French director and specialist in sound effects, who died on 23 November 2007, aged 84, in Figanières, Var, France.

• Liliane Wouters

  Belgian writer, poet and playwright.

• Otto Edelmann
• Alexandre Najjar
• Jérémy Demay
• Pierre Pflimlin

  French politician, Prime Minister at the time of the collapse of the Fourth French Republic in 1958, and as the first Catholic mayor of...

• Quique Flores
• Rita G
• Michel Breistroff

  French hockey player who had graduated from Harvard in 1995.

• Shawn Reaves

  American actor.

• Tim Holt

  American noted family, an actor and the son of cowboy star Tim Holt, Sr.

• Samuel Sanchez
• Odette Trupin
• Al Kooper

  American musician, he is best known for having spontaneously added the vital organ sound to Bob Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone' (he showed up...

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Famous Deaths

• Dean Jagger

  US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about age 87 (born 1903).

• Thelma Ritter

  American actress (Born 1905).

• Gwili Andre

  Actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon).

• Dolores Moran

  Actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at 56.

• George Arliss

  British stage actor who became an international screen star at age 53.

• Franklin Cover

  American actor (Born 1928).

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (Born c. 1917).

• Joseph L Mankiewicz

  US writer/director/producer (All about Eve), dies at age 83 (born 1909).

• Claude Autant-Lara

  French director, active in cinema from age 16 designing sets and costumes.

• Gianandrea Gavazzeni

  Italian conductor, composer and artistic director of the Milano Scala, 1966-'68 as well as permanent guest conductor.

• Violeta Parra

  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (best knows as Violeta Parra) was a Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual...

• George Morrison

  Dies at 82.

• L C William Nolde

  Last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral.

• Roger Livesey

  Actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Col Blimp), dies at 69.

• Joe Raposa

  Composer / songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51.

• Laura Liddell

  Actress (Shakespeare Wallah), dies at 83.

• Doug Mcclure

  US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas - The Virginian), dies at age 59.

• Kimberley Leston

  Journalist, dies at 35.

• W R Lee

  Language teacher, dies at 84.

• Lou Andreas-Salome

  Russian-born writer (Born 1861).

• Miguel Rolando Covian

  Brazilian physiologist (Born 1913).

• Helge Boes

  American Central Intelligence Agency officer (Born 1970).

• Wim Gertenbach

  Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Germans.

• Robert E Park

  sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at age 79.

• Johann Blaskowitz

  German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at age 64.

• Savilly Tartakower

  Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at age 74.

• Henry M Tomlinson

  British writer (Under red ensign), dies at age 84.

• Anthony G de Rothschild

  British philanthropist, dies at age 73.

• Herman Teirlinck

  Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at age 87.

• Pedro Arrupe

  Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at age 83.

• Donald Zimmerman

  editor, dies.

• Frederick Craig Riddle

  violinist, dies at age 82.

• Judith Fluks

  Amsterdam's activist, dies.

• Courtenay E Benson

  broadcaster, dies at age 79.

• Antonio Ruiz Soler

  Spanish dancer, dies at age 74.

• Peter Pooley

  broadcaster, dies at age 84.

• Tim Kelly

  American musician (Born 1963).

• Hans Fallada

  German prominent novelist whose work faithfully reflected the zeitgeist of the great depression as it affected the German peasants.

• Pamela Harriman

  British noted family, the third daughter of Lord Digby and the wife of Randolph Churchill in 1939 (the son of Winston Churchill); they...

• Inayat Khan

  East Indian musician and poet, one of the spiritual giants of the twentieth Century and Muslim founder of the Sufi Order of the West.

• Rudy Pompilli

  American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (Born 1926).

• Hans Litten

  German jurist (Born 1903).

• Fred Ball

  American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (Born 1915).

• Rudy York

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1970).

• Oskar Klein

  Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1977).

• Marianne Moore

  American poet critic and translator (d. 1972).

• Alexis Hollander

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Brian Jacques

  English author, author of the Redwall series (Born 1939).

• William Collier

  Jr.

• Andre Gedalge

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Siegfried Ochs

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Vittorio Gnecchi

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Rudolf Nelson

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Irving Bacon

  Actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71.

• Luckey Roberts

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Slavoljub Eduard Penkala

  Croatian inventor (Born 1871).

• Leon Leonwood Bean

  American department store founder (Born 1872).

• Ella Grasso

  Governor of Connecticut (Born 1919).

• Ludwig Thuille composer

  dies at age 45.

• James William Tate composer

  dies at age 46.

• Paul Rubens composer

  dies at age 41.

• Vasili V Rozanov Russian philosopher/writer

  dies at age 62.

• Izaak Boleslavski

  Russian chess player, dies at age 67.

• Frans van Immerseel

  Belgian graphic artist, dies at age 68.

• Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor

  Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at age 83.

• Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens

  Flemish writer/Nazi, dies at age 84.

• Derk Roemers

  Dutch union leader/politician (Social Democrat), dies at age 67.

• Tip Tipping [Tim]

  American actor and stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at age 34 (born 1958).

• Kenneth "Buddy" Scott

  blues guitarist/Singer, dies at age 59.

• Ganzefles

  Dutch Nazi spy / Jews hunter, executed.

• Sami Ibrahim Haddad

  Lebanese surgeon (Born 1890).

• Rodolfo Guzman Huerta

  Mexican wrestler and film actor (Born 1917).

• Georges-Emile Lapalme

  French-Canadian politician (Born 1907).

• Sean Flanagan

  Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (Born 1922).

• Marcel Leger

  Quebec politician (Born 1930).

• Leo T McCarthy American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983

  1995) (Born 1930).

• Alfred Worm

  Austrian investigative journalist (Born 1945).

• Brendan Burke

  Gay rights activist, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke (Born 1988).

• Jacques Ibert

  French composer of operas, movie scores, orchestral and chamber music.

• Banjo Paterson

  Australian poet, author of ''Walzing Matilda'' (Born 1864).

• Norma Candal

  Puerto Rican actress and comedian (Born 1930).

• Josiah Thomas

  English-Australian miner and politician 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933).

• Ross Barnes

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1915).

• Harry Schwarz

  German-South African lawyer politician and diplomat 13th South African Ambassador to the United States (d. 2010).

• Fred de Bruyne

  Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at age 63.

• Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Hermann Abs

  German banker to Hitler and Adenauer, dies at 92.

• John Richard Patterson

  Businessman, dies at 51.

• Jaber II Al-Sabah

  Emir of Kuwait (Born 1860).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Migos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert - Bad And Boujee
• 2016 Justin Bieber - Sorry
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pitbull Featuring Ke$ha - Timber
• 2013 Macklemore - Thrift Shop
• 2012 Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
• 2011 Bruno Mars - Grenade
• 2010 Ke$ha - TiK ToK
• 2009 Lady GaGa - Just Dance
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Beyonce - Irreplaceable
• 2006 Beyonce - Check On It
• 2005 Mario - Let Me Love You
• 2004 OutKast - Hey Ya!
• 2003 B2K - Bump, Bump, Bump
• 2002 Usher - U Got It Bad
• 2001 Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
• 2000 Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
• 1999 Britney Spears - ..Baby One More Time
• 1998 Janet - Together Again
• 1997 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 TLC - Creep
• 1994 Bryan Adams - All For Love
• 1993 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
• 1992 George Michael - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
• 1991 Surface - The First Time
• 1990 Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
• 1989 Sheriff - When I'm With You
• 1988 Tiffany - Could've Been
• 1987 Billy Vera - At This Moment (Live)
• 1986 Dionne & Friends - That's What Friends Are For
• 1985 Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
• 1984 Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
• 1983 Toto - Africa
• 1982 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
• 1981 Blondie - The Tide Is High
• 1980 Michael Jackson - Rock With You
• 1979 Chic - Le Freak
• 1978 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
• 1977 Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers
• 1976 Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
• 1975 Neil Sedaka - Laughter In The Rain
• 1974 Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
• 1973 Elton John - Crocodile Rock
• 1972 Don McLean - American Pie (Parts 1 and 2)
• 1971 Dawn - Knock Three Times
• 1970 The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
• 1969 Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson And Clover
• 1968 The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
• 1967 The Monkees - I'm A Believer
• 1966 Petula Clark - My Love
• 1965 The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
• 1964 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
• 1963 The Rooftop Singers - Walk Right In
• 1962 Joey Dee & the Starliters - Peppermint Twist - Part 1
• 1961 The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
• 1960 Johnny Preston - Running Bear
• 1959 The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
• 1958 Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2018 Imagine Dragons - Thunder
• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Passenger - Let Her Go
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 The Black Keys - Tighten Up
• 2010 Three Days Grace - Break