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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 23, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,707,091,200 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 5 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 4,063 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 5 Historical Events
- 1631 –Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- 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.
- 1885 –King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1924 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1958 –Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 1988 –Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on February 5?
- 1907 –Pierre Pflimlin, French Politician (d. 2000)
- 1942 –Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)
- 1947 –Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
- 1952 –Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
- 1960 –Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
- 1968 –Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
- 1978 –Brian Russell, American football player
- 1980 –Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
- 1981 –Nora Zehetner, American actress
- 1988 –Johnathan Haggerty, American football player
Who died on February 5?
- 1520 –Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
- 1578 –Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24)
- 1941 –Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of “Walzing Matilda” (b. 1864)
- 1952 –Adela Verne, English pianist (b. 1877)
- 1957 –Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
- 1981 –Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
- 1992 –Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
- 2005 –Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
- 2010 –Brendan Burke, Gay rights activist, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke (b. 1988)
- 2010 –Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924)
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