What are the important events that happened on February 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 5: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 5 is the 36^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 23, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,738,713,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘triacontahexagon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac 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 377 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,429 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 5 Historical Events

• 1597 –
  A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
• 1885 –
  King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• 1900 –
  The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
• 1918 –
  SS Tuscania (1914) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
• 1963 –
  The European Court of Justice’s ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
• 1976 –
  The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
• 1981 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• 1988 –
  Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• 2000 –
  Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
• 2004 –
  Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

Who were born on February 5?

• 1725 –
  James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
• 1903 –
  Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)
• 1929 –
  Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
• 1934 –
  Hank Aaron. American baseball player
• 1942 –
  James B. Cobb, Jr., American guitarist (Classics IV)
• 1947 –
  Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
• 1967 –
  Chris Parnell, American actor
• 1968 –
  Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
• 1982 –
  Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1986 –
  Ashley Simmons, American professional wrestler

Who died on February 5?

• 1520 –
  Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
• 1705 –
  Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
• 1915 –
  Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
• 1922 –
  Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
• 1993 –
  Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
• 1997 –
  Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
• 1998 –
  Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
• 1999 –
  Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
• 2006 –
  Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
• 2007 –
  Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)