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
- 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.
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1818 –Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1852 –The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 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.
- 1869 –The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 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.
- 1918 –Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1919 –Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1939 –Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th “Caudillo de España”, or Leader of Spain.
- 1946 –The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
- 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.
- 1962 –French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- 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.
- 1997 –The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 2000 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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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