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This day in history: 5 February

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351 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 5 February.
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2020: Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: 26 Martyrs of Japan (in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Anglican Church in Japan)

Christian feast day: Adelaide of Vilich

Christian feast day: Agatha of Sicily

Christian feast day: Avitus of Vienne

Christian feast day: Bertulf (Bertoul) of Renty

Christian feast day: February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Ingenuinus (Jenewein)

Christian feast day: Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church (United States))

Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan)

Runeberg Day (Finland)

Events

2020Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.

2020United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.

2019Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.

2016Cybercriminals initiate the Bangladesh Bank robbery, using the SWIFT network to fraudulently transfer $101 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account of Bangladesh Bank.

2016New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.

2008A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.

2004Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

2000Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.

1997The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

1994Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

1994Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.

1988Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.

1985Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.

1981Operation Soap: The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force raids four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, arresting just under 300, triggering mass protest and rallies.

1975Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.

1971Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.

1967Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.

1963The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of Europea

1962French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.

1958A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

1958Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

1945World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

1941World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.

1933Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.

1924The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.

1919Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.

1918SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

1918Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.

1917The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

1917The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

1913Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.

1913Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.

1907Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.

1905In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, initially with four basic specialties.

1901J. P. Morgan incorporates U.S. Steel in the state of New Jersey, although the company would not start doing business until February 25 and the assets of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company, Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company, and W

1885King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.

1869The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

1859Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth

1852The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.

1818Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

Born on this day

2016Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Bhutanese prince

2002Jisung, South Korean rapper

2002Taehyun, South Korean singer-songwriter

2001Kim Min-ju, South Korean actress

1997Patrick Roberts, English footballer

1996Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer

1995Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer

1993Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player

1993Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player

1992Neymar, Brazilian footballer

1992Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer

1991Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer

1991Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer

1990Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer

1990Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player

1990Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer

1989Jeremy Sumpter, American actor

1987Alex Brightman, American actor, singer, and voice actor

1986Kevin Gates, American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur

1986Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer

1985Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

1985Laurence Maroney, American football player

1985Lloyd Johansson, Australian rugby player

1984Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer

1983Anja Hammerseng-Edin, Norwegian handball player

1982Kevin Everett, American football player

1982Laura del Río, Spanish footballer

1982Rodrigo Palacio, Argentinian footballer

1982Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player

1981Loukas Vyntra, Czech-Greek footballer

1981Mia Hansen-Løve, French director and screenwriter

1980Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer, created LiveJournal

1980Jo Swinson, Scottish politician

1979Nate Holzapfel, American entrepreneur and television personality

1978Brian Russell, American football player

1978Samuel Sánchez, Spanish cyclist

1977Adam Dykes, Australian rugby league player

1977Adam Everett, American baseball player and coach

1977Ben Ainslie, English sailor

1976Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor

Died on this day

2025Irv Gotti, American record producer, co-founded Murder Inc Records (born 1970)

2024Toby Keith, American country singer (born 1961)

2023Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani military officer and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (born 1943)

2021Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (born 1929)

2021Örs Siklósi, Hungarian singer (born 1991)

2020Kirk Douglas, American actor (born 1916)

2016Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (born 1919)

2015Herman Rosenblat, Polish-American author (born 1929)

2015K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (born 1933)

2015Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress and singer (born 1931)

2015Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)

2014Robert Dahl, American political scientist and academic (born 1915)

2013Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer and conductor (born 1924)

2013Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (born 1934)

2013Tom McGuigan, New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (born 1921)

2012Al De Lory, American keyboard player, conductor, and producer (born 1930)

2012John Turner Sargent Sr., American publisher (born 1924)

2012Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (born 1922)

2012Sam Coppola, American actor (born 1932)

2011Brian Jacques, English author and radio host (born 1939)

2011Peggy Rea, American actress and casting director (born 1921)

2010Brendan Burke, Canadian ice hockey player and activist (born 1988)

2010Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, anti-apartheid leader, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (born 1924)

2008Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (born 1918)

2007Leo T. McCarthy, New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (born 1930)

2006Norma Candal, Puerto Rican-American actress (born 1927)

2005Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (born 1937)

2005Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (born 1921)

2004John Hench, American animator (born 1908)

2000Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (born 1901)

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

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