On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 05:
1626 Madame Marie de Sévigné Paris, celebrated letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
1723 John Witherspoon clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1788 Sir Robert "Bobbie" Peel British PM (1834-46), founded Tories
1810 Ole Bull (Ole Bornemann) composer/violinist
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=1392
1833 John Watkinson founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess magazine)
1837 Dwight Lyman Moody US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
1840 John Boyd Dunlop Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
1891 Karl L Schmidt German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum)
1900 Adlai E Stevenson (Governor-D-IL), presidential candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
1906 John Carradine Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
1914 William S Burroughs St Louis, novelist/junkie (Naked Lunch)
1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari], Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1919 Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx New York NY, comedian/actor (Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure)
1923 Stephen J Cannell TV producer/writer(Rockford Files, A-Team)
1934 Hank Aaron baseball player (record 755 home runs, 1957 NL MVP)
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
1941 Rick Laird jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece)
1942 Roger Staubach NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1944 Al Kooper rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1964 Duff [Michael] "Rose" McKagan rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
1978 Kristina Cherina Miss Croatia-Universe (1997)
Deaths which occurred on February 05:
0045BC Cato Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide
http://www.geocities.com/~kashalinka/cato_bio.html 1721 James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope English General, dies at 47
1867 Salomon Munk published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies
1881 Thomas Carlyle historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
1946 George Arliss actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at 77
1947 Ganzefles Dutch Nazi spy/Jew hunter, executed
1961 Anthony G de Rothschild British philanthropist, dies at 73
1991 Dean Jagger US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about 87
1993 Joseph L Mankiewicz US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
1994 Hermann Abs German banker to Hitler & Adenauer, dies at 92
1995 Doug Mcclure US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at 59
1997 Pamela Harriman US Ambassador (to France), dies of stroke at 76
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
05-Feb-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Joshua L. Knowles Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
05-Feb-2005 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Travis M. Wichlacz Babil Province (northern part) Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
02/05/03 Boes, Helge CIA Operations Officer 32 US CIA Counterterrorism Unit Non-Hostile - Accident - ordinance Eastern part, Afghanistan
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out
1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah GA
1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from the English
1783 Sweden recognizes US independence
1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1817 1st US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
1825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar
1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz NY
1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
1864 Federals occupy Jackson MS
1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
1881 Phoenix AZ incorporates
1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
1887 Snow falls on San Francisco
1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1901 J Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company
1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted
1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
1918 Separation of church & state begins in USSR
1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed
1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times", is released
1940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta,
1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympics champion
1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st President of United Arab Republic
1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16º
1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
1967 Anastasio Somoza "elected" President of Nicaragua
1969 US population reaches 200 million
1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice president, general manager & head coach of Redskins
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro; Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours
1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuts
1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
1977 "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91
1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years-Andre the giant beats Hulk Hogan
1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs
1988 Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
1991 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
1992 Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case
1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego" debuts on Fox TV
1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson MS, 30 years after the crime
1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
1998 Democratic fundraiser Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie pleaded innocent in Washington to charges he'd raised illegal donations to buy influence in high places.
2001 Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The four were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole
2002 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted John Walker Lindh on 10 charges, alleging he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and then conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans
2004 Journalists at Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper left their offices after the Supreme Court upheld that it was a crime to work without a government license
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
World] International Clergy Appreciation Week (Day 5)
Finland : Runeberg Day (1804)
Japan : Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)
México : Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)
Roman calendar : Nonae Februarius
San Marino : Liberation Day
Tanzania : Birth of the Afro Shirazi Party
World : Boy Scouts Day (1910)
US : Muffin Mania Week (Day 6)
Blah Buster Month
Religious Observances
Baptist : Roger Williams Day
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Agatha, virgin/martyr
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Jeanne de Valois, French foundress
Anglican, Lutheran : Commemoration of 26 martyrs of Japan killed by Tagosama
old Roman Catholic : Feast of St Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
Religious History
1631 English clergyman Roger Williams first arrived in America. He soon began questioning Massachusetts' religious policies which fused church and state matters. Williams was banished to Rhode Island five years later, where at Providence he established the first Baptist church in America.
1736 The English Wesley brothers, John (32) and Charles (28) first arrived in America at Savannah, GA. They had been invited by Georgia governor James Oglethorpe as missionaries to the American Indians.
1812 American missionary Adoniram Judson, 23, married schoolteacher Ann Hasseltine, 22. Two weeks later the couple set sail for India under sponsorship of the American [Congregational] Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
1887 The Chicago Evangelization Society was organized by evangelist D. L. Moody, 50. Two years later, the Society established the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. Moody died in 1899, and in 1900 the school was renamed Moody Bible Institute.
1944 German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution... Things really are in a better hand than ours.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected."
Red Buttons
