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, 28,978,560 minutes 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
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 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.
- 1900 –The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
- 1937 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1945 –World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1946 –The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
- 1958 –Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 2004 –Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- 2004 –Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
- 2019 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 5?
- 1650 –Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)
- 1919 –Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1929 –Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
- 1948 –Barbara Hershey, American actress
- 1951 –Russell Grant, British astrologer
- 1960 –Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
- 1963 –Steven Shainberg, American film director
- 1967 –Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician
- 1972 –Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian
- 1982 –Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player
Who died on February 5?
- 1578 –Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24)
- 1790 –William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
- 1892 –Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
- 1962 –Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
- 1970 –Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1995 –Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1998 –Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
- 2000 –Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
- 2005 –Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
- 2007 –Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995) (b. 1930)
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