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Events
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
1777 – Georgia abolished the practices of entail and primogeniture, becoming the first American State to do so. These practices dealt mainly with the issue of inheritance. They held that in any given family the largest portion of the father’s possessions was to go to the eldest son upon the father’s death. Additionally, they stated that only one male heir was allowed to receive all the lands involved the father’s estate.
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
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.
1865 – The Battle of Hatcher’s Run was fought near Petersburg, VA.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1870 – The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience in Philadelphia, PA.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal possession. His administration of the region became one of the greatest international scandals of the early 20th century.
1900: The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
1905 – in Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with 4 basic specialities.
1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
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.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1936 – The National Wildlife Federation is formed.
1937 – United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes his Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 in an attempt to reduce legal opposition to his New Deal.
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The 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 European Union law.
1963: Caltech astronomer Maarten Schmidt solved a puzzle about the quasi-stellar radio source 3C273 that changed the way we think about our universe.
1971 – Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1975 – Riots break 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.
1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1985 – Ugo 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.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in 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.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Agatha, Virgin and Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Agatha of Sicily
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church (USA))
Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
and Anglican Church in Japan)
Eastern Orthodox
February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Martyr Agatha of Catania in Sicily (251)
Martyr Theodoula of Anazarbus in Cilicia, and with her Martyrs Helladius,
Macarius, Boethos, and Evagrius (304)
Venerable Theodosius of Skopelos in Cilicia (c. 421)
Saint Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (970)
Venerable Sabbas the New of Sicily, Abbot (995)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Agricola, the eleventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium (420)
Saint Avitus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne, Gaul (520)
Saints Genuinus (Ingenuinus), Bishop of Sabiona, and Albinus (7th century)
Saint Bertulf of Renty (O.S.B.) (705)
Saint Indract of Glastonbury (c. 710)
Saint Modestus, Bishop of Carinthia and Apostle of Carantania (c. 722)
Saint Vodoaldus (Voel, Vodalus, Vodalis), born in Ireland, he went to France
and reposed as a hermit near Soissons (c. 725)
Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Willich (c. 1015)
Saint Agatha Hildegard of Carinthia, wife of the Count of Carinthia in Austria (1024)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Gregory Roşca (Grigorie Roşca), Metropolitan of Moldavia (1570)
Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696)
New Martyr Anthony of Athens, at Constantinople (1774)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyrs Matushka Agatha (Agafia) (1938), and with her Schemamonk
Eugene (1939) and Righteous Paramon (1941), of Belorussia
Virgin-martyr Alexandra, and martyr Michael (1942)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Eletsk-Chernigov" (1060)Traditional Western
Agatha, Virgin and Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Agatha of Sicily
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church (USA))
Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
and Anglican Church in Japan)
Eastern Orthodox
February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Martyr Agatha of Catania in Sicily (251)
Martyr Theodoula of Anazarbus in Cilicia, and with her Martyrs Helladius,
Macarius, Boethos, and Evagrius (304)
Venerable Theodosius of Skopelos in Cilicia (c. 421)
Saint Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (970)
Venerable Sabbas the New of Sicily, Abbot (995)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Agricola, the eleventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium (420)
Saint Avitus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne, Gaul (520)
Saints Genuinus (Ingenuinus), Bishop of Sabiona, and Albinus (7th century)
Saint Bertulf of Renty (O.S.B.) (705)
Saint Indract of Glastonbury (c. 710)
Saint Modestus, Bishop of Carinthia and Apostle of Carantania (c. 722)
Saint Vodoaldus (Voel, Vodalus, Vodalis), born in Ireland, he went to France
and reposed as a hermit near Soissons (c. 725)
Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Willich (c. 1015)
Saint Agatha Hildegard of Carinthia, wife of the Count of Carinthia in Austria (1024)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Gregory Roşca (Grigorie Roşca), Metropolitan of Moldavia (1570)
Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696)
New Martyr Anthony of Athens, at Constantinople (1774)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyrs Matushka Agatha (Agafia) (1938), and with her Schemamonk
Eugene (1939) and Righteous Paramon (1941), of Belorussia
Virgin-martyr Alexandra, and martyr Michael (1942)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Sicilian-Divnogorsky" (1092)
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Seeking of the Lost" (17th century)
Repose of Metropolitan Michael (Jovanovich) of Serbia (1897)
Repose of Valeriu Gafencu of Bessarabia, Romania (1952)
Repose of Abbess Agnia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1954)
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