Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 5

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  A device for producing Bakelite
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  Leopold II
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  Leopold II of Belgium
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  The "Welcome Stranger" gold nugget
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  Alexandru Ioan Cuza
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  Obelisk commemorating the discovery of the Welcome Stranger nugget
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  Bill Ponsford
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  A tulip from a 1637 Dutch catalog
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  John Edward Bouligny
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  Charles XIV John
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  USS Port Royal (CG-73) after having run aground on a coral reef

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Blurb	Reason
Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2018)	primary sources
Kashmir Solidarity Day in Pakistan	stub
1637 – Ninety-eight sales for rare tulip bulbs were recorded on the last day of tulip mania, a speculative bubble in the Dutch Republic.	citations needed
1782 – Running out of medical supplies to combat scurvy, British troops surrendered to an allied Franco-Spanish force, completing the latter's invasion of the island of Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea.	refimprove
1862 – Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza merged his two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia, to form the United Principalities, the core of the Romanian nation-state.	Cuza: refimprove; Principalities: lots of CN tags
1885 – Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in Africa through his organization International African Association and his private army, the Force Publique.	refimprove
1924 – Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC.	refimprove section
1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen established the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of European Union law.	refimprove
1988 – The first Red Nose Day raised Template:Nowrap in the United Kingdom for charity.	refimprove
1994 – The Army of Republika Srpska carried out the first of two bombardments against civilians in the marketplace in Sarajevo, which were the stated reason for NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces.	outdated

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• 1783 – The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of Calabria on the Italian Peninsula, killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months.
• 1818 – Charles XIV John (pictured) succeeded to the thrones of Sweden and Norway as the first monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
• 1869 – Prospectors in Moliagul, Australia, discovered the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the Welcome Stranger.
• 1889 – French forces shelled and dismantled an unsanctioned Russian settlement led by Nikolay Ivanovich Ashinov at Sagallo, in present-day Djibouti.
• 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite (production device pictured), the world's first synthetic plastic.
• 1913 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.
• 1917 – The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto to pass the Immigration Act of 1917, establishing new restrictions on immigrants, including the wholesale ban of people from much of Asia.
• 1923 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford made 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class score.
• 1958 – After a mid-air collision with a fighter plane during a practice exercise off Tybee Island, Georgia, a U.S. Air Force bomber jettisoned a Mark 15 nuclear bomb, which was presumed lost.
• 1985 – The mayors of Carthage and Rome signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began.
• 2004 – The National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti captured the city of Gonaïves, starting a coup d'état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government.
• 2008 – Eighty-seven tornadoes occurred over the course of the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak across multiple U.S. states, causing 56 deaths and over Template:Nowrap in damage.
• 2004 – At least 21 cockle-gatherers were drowned by an incoming tide in Morecambe Bay, England, prompting the establishment of the British government's Gangmasters Licensing Authority.
• 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal ran aground (pictured) on a coral reef off the island of Oahu.
• 2019 – Pope Francis became the first pope to celebrate a papal Mass in the Arabian Peninsula.
• Born/died: | Philipp Spener |d|1705| William Cullen |d|1790| Johan Ludvig Runeberg |b|1804| Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. |b|1875| William Bostock |b|1892| Francisco Varallo |b|1910| Colin Robert Chase |b|1935| Gheorghe Hagi |b|1965| Margaret Oakley Dayhoff |d|1983| Bhuvneshwar Kumar |b|1990| Neymar |b|1992

Notes

• 1169 Sicily earthquake appears on February 4, so Pompeii and Calabrian earthquakes should not appear in the same year
• Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) (same war) featured on February 6, so Novye Aldi massacre should not appear in the same year.

February 5: Constitution Day in Mexico (1917) Template:Main page image/OTD

• AD 62 – Pompeii was severely damaged by a strong earthquake, which may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the town 17 years later.
• 1597 – As part of enforcing Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christianity in Japan, twenty-six Catholics, a mix of European missionaries and Japanese converts, were executed (depicted) near Nagasaki by crucifixion and impalement.
• 1861 – In a speech before the U.S. Congress, Representative John Edward Bouligny refused to join his fellow Louisiana congressmen in heeding the state's secession convention and resigning.
• 1967 – Cultural Revolution: The January Storm revolt in Shanghai reached its apogee as Maoist rebels proclaimed the establishment of the Shanghai People's Commune, a move the previously supportive Mao Zedong criticized.
• 2000 – Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close, Russian forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in Grozny's Novye Aldi suburb.