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 36th 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.
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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.
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February 5 Historical Events
- 1576 –Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- 1778 –South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1782 –Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
- 1918 –Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1937 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 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.
- 1958 –Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 1962 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- 1988 –Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 2008 –A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
Who were born on February 5?
- 1848 –Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)
- 1923 –Fatmawati, Indonesian First Lady
- 1941 –David Selby, American actor
- 1943 –Michael Mann, American film director
- 1953 –Takashi Ishikawa, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler
- 1963 –Steven Shainberg, American film director
- 1975 –Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
- 1982 –Kevin Everett, American football player
- 1986 –Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian football player
- 1989 –Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
Who died on February 5?
- 1937 –Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
- 1938 –Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
- 1941 –Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of “Walzing Matilda” (b. 1864)
- 1948 –Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
- 1962 –Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
- 1972 –Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
- 1995 –Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1997 –Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
- 2007 –Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
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