Summary of the Day ✨ 5 February (05/02)
President Donald Trump was acquitted by the US Senate in his first impeachment trial while a tornado outbreak across the Southern United States claimed 57 lives. In other global events, Pope Francis made history as the first Pope to visit and perform mass in the Arabian Peninsula, a Pegasus Airlines flight crashed in Turkey killing three and injuring 179, and New Zealand politician Steven Joyce was struck by a rubber dildo during a Waitangi Day protest.
Historical Events 📜
- 2020: United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
- 2020: Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.
- 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.
- 2016: New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.
- 2008: A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
- 2004: Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- 2000: Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- 1997: The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 1994: Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 1994: Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
- 1988: Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971: Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
Famous Births 👶
- 2016: Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Bhutanese prince
- 2002: Jisung, South Korean rapper
- 2002: Taehyun, South Korean singer-songwriter
- 2001: Kim Min-ju, South Korean actress
- 1997: Patrick Roberts, English footballer
- 1996: Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer
- 1995: Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
- 1993: Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player
- 1993: Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992: Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
- 1992: Neymar, Brazilian footballer
- 1991: Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
- 1991: Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer
- 1990: Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
- 1990: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Irv Gotti, American record producer, co-founded Murder Inc Records (born 1970)
- 2024: Toby Keith, American country singer (born 1961)
- 2023: Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani military officer and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (born 1943)
- 2021: Örs Siklósi, Hungarian singer (born 1991)
- 2021: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (born 1929)
- 2020: Kirk Douglas, American actor (born 1916)
- 2016: Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (born 1919)
- 2015: K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (born 1933)
- 2015: Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress and singer (born 1931)
- 2015: Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
- 2015: Herman Rosenblat, Polish-American author (born 1929)
- 2014: Robert Dahl, American political scientist and academic (born 1915)
- 2013: Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (born 1934)
- 2013: Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer and conductor (born 1924)
- 2013: Tom McGuigan, New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (born 1921)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Adelaide of Vilich - Christian feast day:
Agatha of Sicily - Christian feast day:
Avitus of Vienne - Christian feast day:
Bertulf (Bertoul) of Renty - Christian feast day:
Ingenuinus (Jenewein) - Christian feast day:
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church (United States)) - Christian feast day:
26 Martyrs of Japan (in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Anglican Church in Japan) - Christian feast day:
February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan)
- Runeberg Day (Finland)