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Birthday February 05, 1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence |
Birthday February 05, 1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist |
Birthday February 05, 1778 Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories |
Birthday February 05, 1837 Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody |
Birthday February 05, 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire |
Birthday February 05, 1848 Belle Starr, of the wild west |
Birthday February 05, 1878 Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker |
Birthday February 05, 1878 The French Henry Ford born |
Birthday February 05, 1900 Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate |
Birthday February 05, 1906 John Carradine, Actor |
Birthday February 05, 1907 Norton Simon, business executive |
Birthday February 05, 1914 William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch) |
Birthday February 05, 1919 Red Buttons, comedian/Actor |
Birthday February 05, 1926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times) |
Birthday February 05, 1928 Andrew Greeley is born |
Birthday February 05, 1934 Hank Aaron is born |
Birthday February 05, 1934 Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's) |
Birthday February 05, 1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster |
Birthday February 05, 1946 Charlotte Rampling, in England |
Birthday February 05, 1948 Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia |
Birthday February 05, 1951 Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright |
History February 05, 1631 Roger Williams arrives in America |
History February 05, 1663 Earthquake in Canada |
History February 05, 1777 Georgia constitution abolishes primogeniture and entail |
History February 05, 1783 Earthquake devastates southern Italy |
History February 05, 1826 Millard Fillmore marries Abigail Powers |
History February 05, 1865 Battle of Dabney's Mill (Hatcher's Run) |
History February 05, 1883 Southern Pacific Railroad completes Sunset Route |
History February 05, 1887 Snow falls on SF |
History February 05, 1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted |
History February 05, 1917 Immigration act passed over Wilson's veto |
History February 05, 1917 Mexican constitution proclaimed |
History February 05, 1918 U.S. steamship Tuscania is torpedoed and sinks |
History February 05, 1919 United Artists created |
History February 05, 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium |
History February 05, 1937 Roosevelt announces court-packing plan |
History February 05, 1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing" |
History February 05, 1941 Hitler to Mussolini: Fight harder! |
History February 05, 1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released |
History February 05, 1957 The American Invasion begins, as Bill Haley and the Comets storm Britain |
History February 05, 1960 South Vietnam requests more support |
History February 05, 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars |
History February 05, 1971 US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro |
History February 05, 1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure |
History February 05, 1975 North Vietnamese begin preparations for offensive |
History February 05, 1979 According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million |
History February 05, 1988 Noriega indicted on U.S. drug charges |
History February 05, 1989 The last Soviet troops leave Kabul |
History February 05, 1994 Medger Evers' killer is convicted |
History February 05, 2012 Husband of missing Utah woman kills self and two young sons |