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: The United Kingdom Minister for Security, Ben Wallace, says he has reason to believe British photojournalist John Cantlie is still alive and is being held hostage by surviving Islamic State militants. (BBC)
• 2018 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: 2018 Ariel stabbing: An Israeli rabbi is stabbed to death by an Israeli Arab outside the Israeli-occupied West Bank settlement of Ariel. (Reuters)
• 2017 Heavy snow and avalanches kill dozens of people in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, while Kabul International Airport is closed due to snow and ice on the runway. (BBC), (FOX News)
• 2016 Syrian Civil War: The Syrian Army and its allies capture the town of Ataman, near the city of Daraa. (Reuters)Fifteen thousand Syrians mass at the border with Turkey as a result of the Syrian Government offensive in the Aleppo Governorate. (BBC)
• 2015 Syrian Civil War: The United Arab Emirates suspends air strikes against the Islamic State after a video of a Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive is published online. The suspension involves concerns over a lack of coalition search and rescue capabilities in Syria to recover downed pilots. (NBC News)State news agency SANA claims that insurgent group Jaysh al-Islam has conducted a rocket attack on Damascus with at least eight people injured. (Reuters Trust)
• 2014 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: A wave of bombings hits central Baghdad with at least 16 people dead. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
• 2013 Senkaku Islands dispute:: Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera states that the country has lodged a protest with China after a People's Liberation Army Navy frigate directed weapon-targeting radar at a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer near the disputed Senkaku Islands. (BBC)
• 2012 An explosion hits the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the North Sinai Governorate west of Arish. (AP via MSNBC)
• 2011 2011 Egyptian protests:
• 2010 At least 22 people are killed and more than 50 are injured in two separate bombings in Karachi. (The Hindu) (BBC) (euronews) (The Guardian)
• 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.
• 2008 (to February 6) A tornado outbreak, the deadliest in 23 years, kills 58 in the Southern United States.
• 2007 U.S. Presidential Election, 2008: Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) officially files for candidacy for President of the United States of America. (FOX)
• 2006 American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 21–10 in Super Bowl XL. (Sports Illustrated)
• 2005 NATO helicopters find the wreckage of a Kam Air Boeing 737, an Afghan passenger jet, in mountains east of Kabul; all 104 people that were on board are presumed dead. (ABC News)
• 2004 John Hench dies, at age 95. Hench worked at The Walt Disney Company for 64 years, the longest of any Disney employee. He worked on animation, and took part in the creation of all Disney parks.
• 2003 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the United Nations Security Council on Iraq, giving evidence of Iraq's efforts to conceal weapons of mass destruction from inspectors.
• 2002 Secretary of State Colin L. Powell says that the United States is willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow in May.nbsp– ''Background material: nuclear disarmament, nuclear warfare, nuclear proliferation.''
• 2001 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they had separated.
• 2000 Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
• 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 (later ABC, NBC)
• 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 (Romania)
• 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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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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• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 The Black Keys - Tighten Up
• 2010 Three Days Grace - Break