On this day in History - Feb. 05

• 0995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine dies.
• 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger dies. Regent of Sweden .
• 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.
• 1600 - Dr. Johan Picardt, was born, doctor and author.
• 1608 - Caspar Schott, was born, scientist .
• 1626 - Marie Marquise de Sévigné, was born, author .
• 1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• 1644 - Partida de Lisboa da embaixada de Gonçalo de Siqueira ao Japão.
• 1685 - Died this day, Charles II, king of England (1660-85), Nell Gwynns lover, aged 54.
• 1768 - Criação em Lisboa da Real Mesa Censória, por iniciativa do futuro Marquês de Pombal. Retira-se à Inquisição os poderes de exame prévio, separando assim as matérias laica e religiosa.
• 1748 - Christian Gottlieb Neefe, was born, organist/composer .
• 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
• 1783 - Earthquakes ravaged Calabria, Italy, killing 30,000.
• 1783 - Sweden recognised US independence.
• 1788 - Born this day, Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary, romantic poet (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon, Tartars in Hungary-1819).
• 1788 - Robert Peel, was born, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850).
• 1795 - Zealand surrendered to French general Michaud.
• 1804 - Born this day, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, in Finland, poet.
• 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, was born, painter (d. 1885)
• 1810 - Ole Bull, was born, Norwegian violinist
• 1811 -After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.1818- King Charles XIII / Carl II of Sweden-Norway , dies (b. 1748) .
• 1837 - Dwight L. Moody, was born, evangelist (d. 1899) .
• 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, was born, Scottish inventor who was a pioneer of the pneumatic tyre. (d. 23 Oct 1921) .
• 1840 - Sir Hiram Maxim, was born (d. 24 Nov 1916). American-born prolific inventor best known for the Maxim machine gun .
• 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, was born, author (d. 1907) .
• 1848 - Belle Starr, [Myra Belle Shirley], was born, outlaw (d. 1889) .
• 1852 - Se inaugura el museo de L'Hermitage en San Petersburgo .
• 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
• 1862 - Nace Felipe Villanueva y Gutiérrez, compositor mexicano.
• 1865 - Nace Eusebio A. Morales, político panameño.
• 1867 - Sale de México el cuerpo expedicionario francés, abandonando a su suerte al emperador Maximiliano.
• 1874 - El general Laureano Sanz, gobernador de Puerto Rico, ordena la disolución de la Diputación Provincial.
• 1878 - André-Gustave Citroën, was born (d. 3 Jul 1935). French engineer and industrialist who introduced Henry Ford's methods of mass production to the European automobile industry.
• 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, dies, essayist and historian (b. 1795) .
• 1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• 1881 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.
• 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, was born, politician (d. 1965)
• 1904 - Walter Gross, was born, cabaretist (d. 1989) .
• 1906 - John Carradine, was born, actor (d. 1988)
• 1907 - Norton Simon was born, food industry executive, art collector .
• 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, was born, conjoined twins, actresses (d. 1969) .
• 1914 - Nace William Lee, escritor estadounidense.
• 1914- William S. Burroughs, was born in St Louis, Missouri, novelist (Naked Lunch). (d. 1997) .
• 1914 - Sir Alan Hodgkin, was born (d. 20 Dec 1998). English physiologist and biophysicist who shared (with his countryman Sir Andrew Huxley and Australian scientist Sir John Eccles) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963, for the discovery of the chemical processes involved in nerve conduction.
• 1915 - Pancho Villa asume el poder militar y civil en México.
• 1915 - Robert Hofstadter was born (d. 17 Nov 1990). American scientist who was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961 for his investigations in which he measured the size of the neutron and proton in the nuclei of atoms.
• 1915 - Ross Barnes, dies, baseball player (b. 1850) .
• 1917 - American Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto.
• 1917 - The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. "Constitución de Querétaro".
• 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1919 - Nace la actriz Melina Mercuri.
• 1919 - Red Buttons, was born, actor .
• 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, was born, Greek politician (d. 1996) .
• 1921 - John Pritchard, was born, English conductor (d. 1989)
• 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest. (Some sources say February 7.)
• 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, dies, Croat inventor (b. 1871).
• 1923 - O Governo de Mussolini ordena a detenção de centenas de militantes socialistas.
• 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
• 1928 - Andrew Greeley, was born, priest, novelist .
• 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, was born, politician .
• 1930 - John A. Gambling, was born, radio show host (d. 2004) .
• 1930 - El presidente mexicano, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, es herido en un atentado.
• 1933 - Nace Miguel D'Escoto, político nicaraguense.
• 1934 - Hank Aaron, was born, Baseball Hall of Famer .
• 1935 - Sandra Paretti, was born, author (d. 1994) .
• 1935 - Morre Torcuato Tasso e Nadal, escultor espanhol.
• 1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1940 - H.R. Giger, was born, artist .
• 1941 - Kaspar Villiger, was born, former member of the Swiss Federal Council .
• 1942 - Roger Staubach, was born, Football Hall of Famer .
• 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, was born, video game pioneer .
• 1943 - Craig Morton, was born, American football star .
• 1944 - Gilles Aubin, was born, physicist .
• 1944 - Al Kooper, was born, musician .
• 1944 - Michael Mann, was born, director, writer, producer .
• 1945 - Charlotte Rampling was born in Sturmer, England. Actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict).
• 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. .
• 1946 - George Arliss, dies, actor (b. 1868) .
• 1947 - Darrell Waltrip, was born, automobile racer .
• 1948 - Christopher Guest, was born, actor, writer, director, composer .
• 1948 - Barbara Hershey, was born, actress .
• 1953 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).
• 1955 - Pierre Mendes-France ended his term as premier of France.
• 1956 - Richard S. Stamos was born, New York writer, artist, nascent scientist, Cartesan Agnostic.
• 1956 - The 7th Winter Olympic games closed at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
• 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1958 - Se crea en Argentina el Fondo Nacional de las Artes, por gestión de Victoria Ocampo.
• 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser es nombrado primer presidente de la República Arabe Unida.
• 1960 - Se inaugura en Meyrin, cerca de Ginebra, el mayor acelerador de partículas mundial, un sincrotón de 25 GeV de potencia, construido por el CERN.
• 1960 - Cuba y la URSS restablecen sus relaciones y firman en La Habana un acuerdo comercial.
• 1961 - Muere Anthony G de Rothschild, filántropo británico.
• 1961 - The Sunday Telegraph publishes its first issue.
• 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
• 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh was born, actress .
• 1964 - Laura Linney, was born, actress .
• 1964 - Duff McKagen, was born, Guns N'Roses
• 1965 - Es liberado Martin Luther King, arrestado cuatro días antes en Selma (Alabama) con 500 manifestantes anti segregacionistas.
• 1966 - Ludwig Binswanger, dies, existential psychiatrist (b. 1881) .
• 1966 - Rok Petrovič, was born, Slovenian alpine skier (d. 1993).
• 1967 - Fallece Violeta Parra, cantante chilena.
• 1967 - Anastasio Somoza became president of Nicaragua.
• 1968 - The Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War began.
• 1970 - Rudy York, dies, Major League Baseball All-Star (b. 1913) .
• 1968 - Roberto Alomar, was born, baseball player .
• 1969 - Bobby Brown, was born, singer .
• 1971- Apollo 14 lands on the Moon and the cosmonauts Alan Shefard e Edgar Mitchell walk on the moon .
• 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• 1972 - Marianne Moore, dies, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), aged 84.
• 1972 - Mary E. Donaldson, was born, Crown Princess of Denmark .
• 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the United States Congress.
• 1975 - El Ejército peruano aborta una sublevación de la Guardia Civil.
• 1978 - El conservador Rodrigo Carazo es elegido presidente de Costa Rica.
• 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters ever to hit New England, formed.
• 1982 - Kalindi Dhal, was born, CEO, Bhardwaj, Inc.
• 1984 - Carlos Tevez, was born, Argentina football striker .
• 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, was born, Portuguese football player.
• 1987 - La URSS lanza la astronave "Soyuz TM-2", con dos cosmonautas a bordo, para poner en marcha una estación espacial permanente.
• 1988 - Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• 1988 - Comic Relief held the first "Red Nose Day", which raised a £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.
• 1989 - Se lanza el satélite de Sky Television.
• 1989 - Radio Moscow announced the last Soviet soldier had left Kabul, Afghanistan.
• 1990 - Rafael Calderón es elegido presidente de Costa Rica.
• 1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
• 1991 - Dean Jagger, dies, actor .
• 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, dies, writer, producer, director Oscar-winning (b. 1909) .
• 1994 - Morrem 69 civís e 197 pessoas ficam feridas em um ataque sérvio contra o mercado central de Saraievo.
• 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 1996 - El Papa Juan Pablo II visita Guatemala.
• 1997 - The so-called "Big Three" banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• 1997 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.
• 1999 - Wassily Leontief, dies, economist .
• 1998 - Helene Parmelin dies. French writer.
• 1999 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people.
• 2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they had separated.
• 2003 - Helge Boes, dies, CIA operations officer .
• 2003 - U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.
• 2003 - José Craveirinha, escritor moçambicano, morreu neste dia.
• 2004 - 23 Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. 21 bodies are recovered.
• 2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.