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
- 1576 –Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- 1597 –A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- 1778 –South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1782 –Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
- 1783 –In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1818 –Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 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.
- 1917 –The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- 1924 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1924 –The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
- 1941 –World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
- 1945 –World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 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.
- 1972 –Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 1988 –Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1994 –Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 1997 –The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 2008 –A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
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