05 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 05 is the day number 36 in a given year. February 05 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1630	The seventh Sikh Guru Har Rai was born in Kiratpur, Punjab.
1736	Methodist John & Charles Wesley traveled to the city of Savannah, Georgia.
1777	Georgia became the first US state to eliminate both migration and birthright.
1782	The Spanish army defeated the British army and captured Minorca.
1783	30,000 people died in a severe earthquake in Calabria, Italy.
1783	The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of Calabria On the Italian Peninsula killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months.
1811	British Regency: George, Prince of Wales King George III of the United Kingdom became Prince Regent due to his father's insanity.
1855	Lord Palmerstone became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1869	Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the 'Welcome Stranger'.
1870	The movie was first screened at a theater in Philadelphia.
1870	The first movie to be shown to viewers in Philadelphia aired.
1884	Derby County Football Club was established in England.
1889	The first issue of the journal Glasgow University was published.
1900	The United Kingdom and the United States signed a treaty in Central America, Nicaragua, to construct a Central American shipping canal.
1909	Leo Backland announced the manufacture of Bakelite hard thermosetting plastics.
1909	Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced the creation ofBakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1916	Popular Hindi poet Janaki Vallabh Shastri was born.
1922	First copy of Reader's Digest magazine published.
1923	Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford made 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class score.
1923	The arrest of socialists and communists in Italy.
1924	The radio time indicator GMT was first broadcast from Royal Greenbeach.
1924	A radio time signal was first broadcast from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1931	Maxine Dunlap became the first glider pilot.
1941	Second World War-British and Free French forces began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea.
1947	Bolselva Berat became President of Poland.
1953	The premiere of Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan began.
1958	The Mark 15 molecular bomb, near Tybee Island from the US Air Force, was lost in the water.
1958	A Mark 15 nuclear bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia, after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.
1960	The CERN particle accelerator was inaugurated in Geneva, Switzerland.
1967	Anastasio Somoza was elected President of Nicaragua.
1971	The astronauts of the Apollo 14 mission landed on the moon.
1971	Apollo 14 was launched on the moon.
1972	American Airlines began inspecting passengers and luggage.
1976	Amitabh Bachchan's actor son Abhishek Bachchan was born.
1985	The mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a peace treaty to ceremonially end the Third Punic War, 2,131 years after the conflict has ended.
1992	The jury selection has been started in the Los Angeles and the cops beating Rodney King case.
1993	Belgium became a federal monarchy rather than a monopoly empire.
1994	Medgar Evers murdered Byron De La Beck. He has been sentenced to life, in Jackson for 30 years after the crime.
1994	The Army of Republika Srpska carried out the first of two bombardment against civilians in the marketplace in Sarajevo, which were the stated reason for NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces.
1997	Brook Lee from Hawaii has been crowned as 46th miss USA.
1998	The author tom Clancy confirmed that he has signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, which is an NFL franchise record.
2000	Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close, Russian forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in the city's Novye Aldi suburb.
2004	The Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capturedGonaïves, Haiti, starting a coup d'état against the government ofPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
2006	In the super bowl XL, the Steelers defeated the Seahawks by 21-10 runs.
2008	Eighty-seven tornadoes occurred over the course of the SuperTuesday tornado outbreak across multiple U.S. states, causing 56 deathsand over $1 billion in damage.
2009	The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal ran aground on a coral reef off the island of Oahu.
2010	The Danish special force stormed a ship which was captured by Somalia pirates and fearing 25 crew members on board.
2011	The Protesters continued their 12th day of nationwide protests in Cairo in Tahir square, calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
2012	Josefina Vazquez Mota is the first woman ever endorsed by a Major Mexican Party to run for President of Mexico.
2013	Michael Dell, the founder leads a consortium that announced plans to take Dell as private with a$24.4 billion which was the largest buyout seen since the recession.
2014	Mario Cuomo, the Governor of New York has planned to announce executive action to loosen Marijuana laws. It also allowed the use of the drugs for medical purposes.
62	Pompeii was severely damaged by a strong earthquake, which may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the town 17 years later.

Event Year	Incident/Event
2007	Indian-origin Sunita Williams became the most spent woman in space.
2008	Indian Amit Yogi Maharish Mahesh Yogi passed away.
2010	Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra won gold in the Netherlands International Shooting Championships by scoring 596 out of 600.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1919	Khurshed Alam Khan / Politician / India
1924	Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy / Cardinal / India
1936	K. S. Nissar Ahmed / Poet / India
1976	Abhishek Bacchan / Actor / India
1990	Bhuvneshwar Kumar / Cricketer / India

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