February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL SHOWER WITH A FRIEND DAY
1631 – Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams, arrives in Boston from England.
1883 – The Southern Pacific Railroad completes its transcontinental "Sunset Route" from New Orleans to California, consolidating its dominance over rail traffic to the Pacific.
NATIONAL SHOWER WITH A FRIEND DAY
1631 – Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams, arrives in Boston from England.
1846 – "Oregon Spectator" is the first newspaper to be published on the West Coast.
1883 – The Southern Pacific Railroad completes its transcontinental "Sunset Route" from New Orleans to California, consolidating its dominance over rail traffic to the Pacific.
1885 – News of the fall of Khartoum, and the death of British General Charles George "Chinese" Gordon at the hands of the Madhis led by Muhammed Ahmad, reaches London.
1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign the Hays-Pauncefote Treaty for the Panama Canal.
1917 – Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration.
1937 – On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.
1941 – On this day in 1941, Adolf Hitler scolds his Axis partner, Benito Mussolini, for his troops' retreat in the face of British advances in Libya, demanding that El Duce command his forces to resist.
1957 – American rock and rollers Bill Haley and the Comets invade Britain.
1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated as the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1970 – The population of the United States reaches 200 million, up 11.5% from the 1960 census figure of 179.3 million.
1974 – U.S. Mariner 10 space probe returns the first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure.
1989 – In an important move signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam."
1997 – O.J. Simpson is found civilly liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in a civil court action.
2013 – The U.S. Postal Service announces the cessation of Saturday first-class mail delivery from August 2013.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1900 – Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965)
1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author and painter (d. 1997)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1947 – Mary L. Cleave, American engineer and astronaut
It's interesting to note that once you get past about 1950, 90% of Wikipedia's birth listings are comprised of artists and athletes.
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
1901 – Pierpont Morgan, through buy-outs and mergers (Carnegie Steel), forms the United States Steel Corporation.
1917 – Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration.
1917 – After seven years of revolution and civil upheaval, Mexican President Venustiano Carranza proclaims the modern Mexican constitution.
1917 – The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1937 – On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.
1941 – On this day in 1941, Adolf Hitler scolds his Axis partner, Benito Mussolini, for his troops' retreat in the face of British advances in Libya, demanding that El Duce command his forces to resist.
1957 – American rock and rollers Bill Haley and the Comets invade Britain.
1970 – The population of the United States reaches 200 million, up 11.5% from the 1960 census figure of 179.3 million.
1972 – United State airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage. Nice!
1988 – On February 5, 1988, two federal grand juries in Florida announce indictments of Panama military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1989 – In an important move signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam."
1997 – O.J. Simpson is found civilly liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in a civil court action.
2013 – The U.S. Postal Service announces the cessation of Saturday first-class mail delivery from August 2013.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1900 – Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965)
1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author and painter (d. 1997)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1947 – Mary L. Cleave, American engineer and astronaut
It's interesting to note that once you get past about 1950, 90% of Wikipedia's birth listings are comprised of artists and athletes.
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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