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 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, 1,738,713,600 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 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.

February 5 Historical Events

• 1631 –
  Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• 1818 –
  Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1917 –
  The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
• 1917 –
  The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• 1919 –
  Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1937 –
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1994 –
  Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 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.
• 1997 –
  The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• 2019 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.

Who were born on February 5?

• 1505 –
  Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
• 1650 –
  Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)
• 1848 –
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
• 1911 –
  Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
• 1941 –
  Stephen J. Cannell. American television producer and writer (d. 2010)
• 1949 –
  Yvon Vallières, French-Canadian politician
• 1966 –
  Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
• 1977 –
  Adam Everett, American baseball player
• 1985 –
  Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
• 1986 –
  Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer

Who died on February 5?

• 1766 –
  Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1882 –
  Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1946 –
  George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
• 1948 –
  Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
• 1977 –
  Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
• 1981 –
  Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1987 –
  William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
• 1998 –
  Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
• 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)