On This Day
5 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1916 Janki Ballabh Shastri, Hindi poet, writer and critic was born in Gaya, Bihar.
- 1922 Following the Chauri Chaura tragedy in which 22 police constables and one sub-inspector were burnt to death by a mob, Gandhiji decided to fast for five days and abandon plan of satyagraha movement.
- 1999 Indrani Rahman, Indian classical dancer of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali and Odissi, which she popularised in the west, died.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1917 Mexico adopted its present constitution.
- 1922 The Reader's Digest magazine is first published.
- 1952 New York adopts three-colored traffic lights.
- 1961 The Soviets launch Sputnik V, the heaviest satellite to date at 7.1 tons.
- 1962 A notable conjunction of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all within 16 degrees happened.
- 1964 France and Great Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel. It was completed in May 1994.
- 1974 NASA's Mariner 10 mission took first close-up photograph of Venus.
- 1985 Portuguese football (soccer) player Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the finest forwards of his generation, was born in Funchal, Portugal.
- 1997 Under international pressure, three of Switzerland's biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families.
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