What events happened on February 5?

What events happened on February 5?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 World Nutella Day.
🌏 World Read Aloud Day.
🌏 Global School Games Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇸 USA – Girls and Women in Sports Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Weather Service Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Runeberg Day.
🇸🇲 San Marino – Freedom Day and St. Agatha’s Day.
🇧🇮 Burundi – Unity Day.
🇵🇰 Pakistan – Kashmir Solidarity Day.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Birthday of Queen Mary of Denmark.

👉 EVENTS:

– BC 2 – Octavian Augustus receives the title of “father of the country”.
– 62 – A powerful earthquake occurs in Pompeii.
– 1597 – 26 Catholics are crucified in Nagasaki by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
– 1783 – The longest earthquake in history occurs in Italy (32,000 to 50,000 deaths).
– 1810 – Battle of the Pyrenees: French troops begin the siege of Cadiz.
– 1852 – The New Hermitage opens to the public for the first time.
– 1901 – The Yeliseev Department Store opens in Moscow.
– 1909 – Leo Baekeland invents plastic.
– 1917 – The constitution of the United Mexican States is adopted.
– 1919 – The first passenger air service in Europe is launched.
– 1919 – Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and David Griffith found the film studio United Artists.
– 1924 – BBC begins transmitting accurate time signals every hour.
– 1926 – An armed attack on Soviet diplomats in Latvia.
– 1928 – Vitamin D was first produced artificially.
– 1952 – The first pedestrian traffic light was installed in New York.
– 1971 – Astronauts Alan Sheppard and Edgar Mitchell set foot on the Moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
– 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declared Iran an Islamic state.
– 1992 – UzTAG was transformed into the National News Agency of Uzbekistan (UzA).
– 1993 – The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted a resolution “On the selection of applicants for higher educational institutions of the Republic of Uzbekistan by the test method”.
– 1995 – A bicameral Supreme Council is elected in Kyrgyzstan.
– 2000 – Massacre in Chechnya.
– 2004 – Uprising against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti.
– 2023 – Price limits for Russian oil products come into effect in the European Union (transit period 55 days).