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, 482,976 hours 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
- 1631 –Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- 1810 –Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1852 –The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1869 –The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1919 –Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1924 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1971 –Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1976 –The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- 1994 –Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 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?
- 1848 –Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
- 1889 –Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
- 1921 –John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
- 1950 –Jonathan Freeman, American actor
- 1954 –Cliff Martinez, American musician
- 1956 –Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver
- 1965 –Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
- 1969 –Bobby Brown, American singer
- 1976 –Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
- 1985 –Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
Who died on February 5?
- 995 –William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
- 1578 –Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24)
- 1915 –Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
- 1917 –Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
- 1967 –Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
- 1967 –Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (b. 1917)
- 1995 –Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1998 –Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
- 2003 –Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (b. 1970)
- 2011 –Peggy Rea, American actress
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