5 February
Notable Births
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
b. 2016
Heir apparent to the Bhutanese throne (born 2016)
Jisung
b. 2002
South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter (born 2002)
Taehyun (singer)
b. 2002
South Korean singer (born 2002)
Kim Min-ju
b. 2001
South Korean actress (born 2001)
Patrick Roberts
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Stina Blackstenius
b. 1996
Swedish footballer (born 1996)
Adnan Januzaj
b. 1995
Belgian footballer (born 1995)
Leilani Latu
b. 1993
Tonga international rugby league player (born 1993)
Ty Rattie
b. 1993
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Stefan de Vrij
b. 1992
Dutch footballer (born 1992)
Neymar
b. 1992
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Nabil Bahoui
b. 1991
Swedish-born Moroccan professional footballer
Gerald Tusha
b. 1991
Albanian footballer
Dmitry Andreikin
b. 1990
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
b. 1990
Indian cricketer (born 1990)
Jordan Rhodes
b. 1990
English-Scottish footballer (born 1990)
Jeremy Sumpter
b. 1989
American actor (born 1989)
Alex Brightman
b. 1987
American actor (born 1987)
Vedran Ćorluka
b. 1986
Croatian footballer (born 1986)
Kevin Gates
b. 1986
American rapper (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
Irv Gotti
d. 2025
American record producer (1970–2025)
Toby Keith
d. 2024
American singer (1961–2024)
Pervez Musharraf
d. 2023
President of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008
AWS (band)
d. 2021
Hungarian post-hardcore band
Christopher Plummer
d. 2021
Canadian actor (1929–2021)
Kirk Douglas
d. 2020
American actor (1916–2020)
K. N. Choksy
d. 2015
Sri Lankan politician (1933–2015)
Marisa Del Frate
d. 2015
Italian singer and actress (1931–2015)
Val Logsdon Fitch
d. 2015
American nuclear physicist
Herman Rosenblat
d. 2015
Polish-born American author (1929–2015)
Robert Dahl
d. 2014
American political scientist (1915–2014)
Reinaldo Gargano
d. 2013
Uruguayan political figure (1934–2013)
Tom McGuigan
d. 2013
New Zealand politician (1921–2013)
Sam Coppola
d. 2012
American actor
Jo Zwaan
d. 2012
Dutch sprinter
Brian Jacques
d. 2011
English author (1939–2011)
Peggy Rea
d. 2011
American actress (1921–2011)
Brendan Burke
d. 2010
Ice hockey player (1988–2010)
Harry Schwarz
d. 2010
South African activist and politician (1924–2010)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
d. 2008
Indian guru (1911?-2008)
On This Day in History
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2020
United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
Donald Trump
2020
Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.
Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193
2019
Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
Pope Francis
2016
New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.
Steven Joyce
2008
A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak
2004
Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti
2000
Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
Novye Aldi massacre
1997
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
Banking in Switzerland
1994
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Byron De La Beckwith
1994
Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
Markale massacres
1988
Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
Manuel Noriega
1985
Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
Ugo Vetere
1981
Operation Soap: The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force raids four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, arresting just under 300, triggering mass protest and rallies.
Operation Soap
1975
Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
Lima
1971
Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
Apollo 14
1967
Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
Cultural Revolution
1963
The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
European Court of Justice
1962
French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
President of France
1958
Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1958
A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
Thermonuclear weapon