February 5

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 5. From 1900 until now. February 5 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Cristiano Ronaldo (1985), Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) and Anti-Christ (1962). Several movies were released around February 5 over the years, such as Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears in 1980 directed by Vladimir Menshov and Shutter Island in 2010 directed by Martin Scorsese.
But much more happened on February 5 over the years: find out below

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

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Daniel Balavoine: French singer and songwriter (d. 1986).
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Jennifer Jason Leigh: American actress.
Charlotte Rampling: British actress, a provocative lead of...
Neymar : Brazilian footballer who plays as a...
Abhishek Bachchan: Indian actor.
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Mary Crown Princess of Denmark
William Burroughs: American writer, bisexual and heroin...
Jorge Ferreira
Julie Zenatti: French singer born in an Algerian jewish...
Cesare Maldini: Italian football coach (soccer) of the...
Nicolae Ceausescu: Romanian politician, an indestructible...
Martine Barbault: French astrologer and member of a noted...
Olivia Adriaco
Darren Criss: American actor, singer.
Jeremy Sumpter: American actor.
Barbara Hershey: American actress with a hippie image...
Laura Linney: American actress.
Michael Sheen: Movie Actor.
Tony Jaa: Movie Actor.
H R Giger
Duff McKagan: American musician (Guns N' Roses).
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Tatiana Silva: Belgian model, born to a father coming...
Azouz Begag: French writer, politician and researcher...
Hank Aaron: American baseball player, a great...
Russell Grant: British actor in more than 30 musicals...
Sara Evans: American singer.
Dominique Besnehard: French actor, film producer, casting...
Nora Zehetner: American actress.
José-Maria Olazabal
Carlos Tevez: Argentinine footballer.
Marcus Grönholm: Finnish race car driver.
Andreas Papandreou: Greek politician who served as Prime...
Laurent Broomhead: French TV journalist, a weather...
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Alex Harvey: Scottish musician, a singer, songwriter,...
Eugen Weidmann: German kidnapper and homicide who killed...
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Jussi Björling: Swedish tenor (d. 1960).
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Michael Mann: American filmmaker, the author of...
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Roberto Alomar: Puerto Rican baseball player, a 2nd...
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Sven-Goran Eriksson: Swedish football manager.
Luc Ferrari: French composer (Born 1929).
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Luc Ferrari: French composer (Born 1929).
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Hans Bender: German psychologist, parapsychologist...
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Mathieu Delarive: French actor and noted famiy member, he...
Ken Adam: German-English production designer and...
Tim Meadows: TV Actor.
Jean-Marc Aubert
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David Selby: American actor, tall and muscular,...
David Ladd: American actor, filmmaker and noted...
Adlai Stevenson: American politician and statesman.
Adlai Stevenson: American politician and statesman.
Gaston Roelants: Dutch field and track star, the winner...
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Henri Gruel: French director and specialist in sound...
Liliane Wouters: Belgian writer, poet and playwright.
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Red Buttons: American actor and singer (d. 2006).
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Shawn Reaves: American actor.
Tim Holt: American noted family, an actor and the...
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Al Kooper: American musician, he is best known for...
Paul Grisoni: French parachutist, 16 times champion of...
Andrew Greeley: American ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic...
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Sara Foster: American actress.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Indian guru, founder of Transcendental...
Joseph L Mankiewicz: US writer/director/producer (All about...
Claude Autant-Lara: French director, active in cinema from...
Dean Jagger: US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar),...
Thelma Ritter: American actress (Born 1905).
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Violeta Parra: Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (best...
Kimberley Leston: Journalist, dies at 35.
Jaber II Al-Sabah: Emir of Kuwait (Born 1860).
Lou Andreas-Salome: Russian-born writer (Born 1861).
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Paul Rubens composer: dies at age 41.
Wim Gertenbach: Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot...
Henry M Tomlinson: British writer (Under red ensign), dies...
Anthony G de Rothschild: British philanthropist, dies at age 73.
Herman Teirlinck: Belgian writer (Jokaste against God),...
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...
Derk Roemers: Dutch union leader/politician (Social...
Pedro Arrupe: Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at age 83.
Donald Zimmerman: editor, dies.
Tip Tipping [Tim]: American actor and stuntman, dies in...
Frederick Craig Riddle: violinist, dies at age 82.
Judith Fluks: Amsterdam's activist, dies.
Courtenay E Benson: broadcaster, dies at age 79.
Tim Kelly: American musician (Born 1963).
Sami Ibrahim Haddad: Lebanese surgeon (Born 1890).
Rodolfo Guzman Huerta: Mexican wrestler and film actor (Born...
Georges-Emile Lapalme: French-Canadian politician (Born 1907).
Sean Flanagan: Irish Gaelic footballer and politician...
Marcel Leger: Quebec politician (Born 1930).
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Ross Barnes: American baseball player and manager (d....
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Hans Litten: German jurist (Born 1903).
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Franklin Cover: American actor (Born 1928).
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Luckey Roberts: Composer, dies at 80.
George Morrison: Dies at 82.
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Joe Raposa: Composer / songwriter (Sesame Street),...
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W R Lee: Language teacher, dies at 84.
John Richard Patterson: Businessman, dies at 51.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala: Croatian inventor (Born 1871).
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Ella Grasso: Governor of Connecticut (Born 1919).
Miguel Rolando Covian: Brazilian physiologist (Born 1913).
Ludwig Thuille composer: dies at age 45.
Vasili V Rozanov Russian philosopher/writer: dies at age 62.
James William Tate composer: dies at age 46.
Robert E Park: sociologist (human ecology, marginal...
Johann Blaskowitz: German General (surrendered at...
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Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens: Flemish writer/Nazi, dies at age 84.
Kenneth "Buddy" Scott: blues guitarist/Singer, dies at age 59.
Fred de Bruyne: Flemish cyclist/gang leader...
Antonio Ruiz Soler: Spanish dancer, dies at age 74.
Peter Pooley: broadcaster, dies at age 84.
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