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 36^th 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.

February 5 Historical Events

• 1631 –
  Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• 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.
• 1913 –
  Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1937 –
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1962 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• 1971 –
  Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• 1994 –
  Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 1997 –
  The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• 2008 –
  A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

Who were born on February 5?

• 1840 –
  Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916)
• 1919 –
  Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1921 –
  John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
• 1934 –
  Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey commentator
• 1937 –
  Gaston Roelants, Belgian athlete
• 1968 –
  Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
• 1984 –
  Nate Salley, American football player
• 1986 –
  Billy Sharp, English footballer
• 1987 –
  Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 –
  Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress

Who died on February 5?

• 1790 –
  William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1807 –
  Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
• 1946 –
  George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
• 1967 –
  Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (b. 1917)
• 2003 –
  Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (b. 1970)
• 2004 –
  John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
• 2006 –
  Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
• 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)
• 2011 –
  Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (b. 1939)