Today in History
5 February
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| 1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons | ||
| 1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium | ||
| 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna | ||
| 1556 Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles | ||
| 1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out | ||
| 1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours | ||
| 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England | ||
| 1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II | ||
| 1663 Earthquake in Canada | ||
| 1679 The Treaty of Nijmegen was signed by Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and King Louis XIV of France. | ||
| 1679 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright, died; he was responsible for some of the greatest works of Dutch literature including "Noah," "Lucifer" and "Adam in Exile." | ||
| 1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina | ||
| 1782 Spain captured the island of Minorca from the British. | ||
| 1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 | ||
| 1783 Sweden recognizes US independence | ||
| 1818 Charles XIV proclaimed king of Sweden after the death of Charles III. | ||
| 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar | ||
| 1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 | ||
| 1855 British govt of Palmerston forms | ||
| 1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale | ||
| 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia | ||
| 1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi U.S.A. | ||
| 1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia | ||
| 1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow | ||
| 1881 Thomas Carlyle, English author and historian, died; Carlyle published "Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches" which revised contemporary attitudes to the protector. | ||
| 1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London | ||
| 1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy | ||
| 1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms | ||
| 1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel | ||
| 1900 British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal | ||
| 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends | ||
| 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam | ||
| 1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted | ||
| 1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson | ||
| 1918 Separation of church & state begins in USSR | ||
| 1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published | ||
| 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar | ||
| 1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy | ||
| 1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins | ||
| 1936 National Wildlife Federation forms | ||
| 1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released | ||
| 1940 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander | ||
| 1940 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander | ||
| 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands | ||
| 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt | ||
| 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission | ||
| 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin | ||
| 1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim | ||
| 1945 U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur entered Manila, Philippines. | ||
| 1946 British stage and film actor George Arliss died; he won an Oscar for the leading role in "Disraeli." | ||
| 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland | ||
| 1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC | ||
| 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic | ||
| 1961 the Sunday Telegraph became the first new national Sunday newspaper to be published in Britain for 40 years. | ||
| 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence | ||
| 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16ø | ||
| 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars | ||
| 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure | ||
| 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels | ||
| 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island | ||
| 1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua | ||
| 1971 A British soldier was shot dead during riots in Belfast, the first to be killed in action since troops went to Northern Ireland in 1969. | ||
| 1971 Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs | ||
| 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders | ||
| 1974 British mine strike | ||
| 1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure | ||
| 1975 The United States cut off military aid to Turkey as a result of delays in a peace settlement of the Cyprus dispute. | ||
| 1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel | ||
| 1982 Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname | ||
| 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people | ||
| 1982 Laker Airways collapse owing œ270M ($351M) | ||
| 1982 Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Netherland | ||
| 1983 Klaus Barbie, wanted Nazi war criminal, was imprisoned in Lyons, France, following extradition from Bolivia. | ||
| 1983 A bomb blast outside the PLO offices in Beirut killed 22 people. | ||
| 1984 NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days | ||
| 1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic | ||
| 1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches | ||
| 1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan | ||
| 1988 Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham | ||
| 1988 Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs | ||
| 1989 Rupert Murdoch launched his satellite station Sky Television in Britain. | ||
| 1990 Opposition candidate Rafael Calderon Fournier won Costa Rica's presidential election. | ||
| 1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160 | ||
| 1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA | ||
| 1994 A mortar bomb devastated a Sarajevo street market, killing 68. | ||
| 1996 The Bosnian government told NATO it had arrested a Serb general, a colonel and six other men for investigations into suspected war crimes. | ||
| 1997 Switzerland's three biggest banks, galvanized by international pressure, said they had created a 100 million Swiss franc Holocaust memorial fund as a gesture of good will toward their critics. | ||
| 1997 U.S. Ambassador to France Pamela Harriman, a millionaire socialite who became a political heavyweight close to President Bill Clinton, died in Paris. | ||