SomeFacts | February 5

On this day - February 5

Caesar Augustus is granted the title pater patriae by the Roman ...

62 — An earthquake with an estimated intensity between IX or X on the ...

756 — An Lushan proclaims himself Emperor of China, founding the ...

1265 — Pope Clement IV is elected as the 183rd Bishop of Rome and ...

1576 — Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the ...

1597 — A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new ...

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 ...

1852 — The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of ...

1859 — Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as ...

1869 — The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the ...

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

1901 — J. P. Morgan incorporates U.S. Steel in the state of New ...

1905 — In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, ...

1907 — Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of ...

1913 — Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di ...

1913 — Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis ...

1917 — The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act ...

1917 — The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a ...

1918 — SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the ...

1918 — Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the ...

1919 — Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. ...

1924 — The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly ...

1933 — Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven ...

1941 — World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to ...

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

1958 — A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air ...

1958 — Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of ...

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

1963 — The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en ...

1967 — Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is ...

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

1975 — Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on ...

1981 — Operation Soap: The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force raids ...

1985 — Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the ...

1988 — Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money ...

1994 — Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 ...

1994 — Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil ...

1997 — The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the ...

2000 — Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye ...

2004 — Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front ...

2008 — A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States ...

2016 — New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber ...

2019 — Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and ...

2020 — Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha ...

2020 — United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the ...