February 5
1631 - The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife, Mary, arrived in Boston from England.
1811 - After Britain's King George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.
1881 - The city of Phoenix, Arizona was incorporated.
1917 - Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.
1917 - Mexico adopted its present constitution.
1918 - During World War I, the Cunard liner SS Tuscania, which was transporting about 2,000 American troops to Europe, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Irish Sea with the loss of more than 200 people.
1922 - The first edition of Reader’s Digest was published.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt.
1971 - Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell stepped onto the surface of the moon in the first of two lunar excursions.
1988 - The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office.
1988 - Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida.
1993 - President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, granting workers up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for family emergencies.
1994 - Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime had occurred in Jackson, Mississippi.
1997 - Under international pressure, three of Switzerland's biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families.
1997 - Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.
2001 - Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2002 - A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.
2016 - President Barack Obama used a new jobs report to continue his victory lap on the economy, declaring the U.S. had “the strongest, most durable economy in the world.” (The president spoke shortly after the Labor Department announced that U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate to 4.9 percent from 5 percent.)
2020 - The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump, bring to a close the third presidential impeachment trial in the nation's history, though a majority of senators expressed unease with Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in one of the two articles of impeachment. Just one Republican, Mitt Romney of Utah, broke with the GOP and voted to convict.
2020 - With white sheets covering them, people infected with the new coronavirus were led off of a Japanese cruise ship in the port city of Yokohama, while the rest of the 3,700 people on board faced a two-week quarantine in their cabins.
2020 - Actor Kirk Douglas died at age 103.
Birthdays
29 - Nabilla Benattia (model)
32 - Jeremy Sumpter (actor)
34 - Henry Golding (actor)
34 - Alex Brightman (actor)
34 - Darren Criss (actor/singer)
36 - Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer player)
37 - Tyler Farr (country singer)
41 - Tiwa Savage (singer)
50 - Sara Evans (country singer)
51 - David Chisum (actor)
52 - Michael Sheen (actor)
52 - Bobby Brown (singer)
54 - Chris Parnell (actor/comedian)
55 - Jose Maria Olazabal (golfer)
57 - Laura Linney (actress)
59 - Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress)
60 - Tim Meadows (actor/comedian)
73 - Tom Wilkinson (actor)
73 - Christopher Guest (actor)
73 - Barbara Hershey (actress)
74 - Darrell Waltrip (race car driver)
75 - Charlotte Rampling (actress)
77 - Al Kooper (singer)
79 - Roger Staubach (football player)
80 - Barrett Strong (singer)
80 - David Selby (actor)
84 - Stuart Damon (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 5
1950 - Dick Irvin (Montreal Canadiens) became the first NHL coach to win 500 games. He ended his career with 690 wins.
1969 - Vince Lombardi is named part owner, vice president, general manager and head coach of the Washington Redskins.
1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1977 - Sugar Ray Leonard makes his professional boxing debut with a 6 round unanimous decision over Luis Vega in Baltimore.
1988 - A professional wrestling match aired on national primetime television for the first time in 30 years, with Hulk Hogan taking on Andre the Giant.
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the first NBA player to score 38,000 points.
1990 - NBC obtained the television broadcast rights to all of Notre Dame's home football games for the next five years as the school became the first to sell its broadcast rights to a major network.
1994 - Peter Bondra (Washington Capitals) became the 10th player in NHL history to score four goals in one period.
1997 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) became the seventh player to score 600 career goals.
1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed an agreement to purchase the Minnesota Vikings for an NFL franchise record $200 million.
2003 - Bob Knight (Texas Tech) coached his 800th victory.
2003 - Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) got his 600th career assist making him only the second American-born player to get 400 goals and 600 assists. Jeremy Roenick was the first American-born player to achieve the feat.
2006 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Detroit to win Super Bowl XL, their fifth Super Bowl title. Pittsburgh receiver Hines Ward is named MVP and running back Jerome Bettis announces his retirement following the game.
2011 - Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders led a class of seven voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame; joining them were Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Ed Sabol, Les Richter and Chris Hanburger.
2012 - The New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots 21-17 in Indianapolis to win Super Bowl XLVI; New York quarterback Eli Manning is named MVP.
2017 - The New England Patriots defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime Houston to win Super Bowl LI; New England quarterback Tom Brady is named MVP. To date, this is the only Super Bowl in history to go into overtime. The win was the fifth Super Bowl championship for the Patriots.
1631 - The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife, Mary, arrived in Boston from England.
1811 - After Britain's King George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.
1881 - The city of Phoenix, Arizona was incorporated.
1917 - Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.
1917 - Mexico adopted its present constitution.
1918 - During World War I, the Cunard liner SS Tuscania, which was transporting about 2,000 American troops to Europe, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Irish Sea with the loss of more than 200 people.
1922 - The first edition of Reader’s Digest was published.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt.
1971 - Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell stepped onto the surface of the moon in the first of two lunar excursions.
1988 - The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office.
1988 - Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida.
1993 - President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, granting workers up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for family emergencies.
1994 - Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime had occurred in Jackson, Mississippi.
1997 - Under international pressure, three of Switzerland's biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families.
1997 - Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.
2001 - Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2002 - A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.
2016 - President Barack Obama used a new jobs report to continue his victory lap on the economy, declaring the U.S. had “the strongest, most durable economy in the world.” (The president spoke shortly after the Labor Department announced that U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate to 4.9 percent from 5 percent.)
2020 - The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump, bring to a close the third presidential impeachment trial in the nation's history, though a majority of senators expressed unease with Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in one of the two articles of impeachment. Just one Republican, Mitt Romney of Utah, broke with the GOP and voted to convict.
2020 - With white sheets covering them, people infected with the new coronavirus were led off of a Japanese cruise ship in the port city of Yokohama, while the rest of the 3,700 people on board faced a two-week quarantine in their cabins.
2020 - Actor Kirk Douglas died at age 103.
Birthdays
29 - Nabilla Benattia (model)
32 - Jeremy Sumpter (actor)
34 - Henry Golding (actor)
34 - Alex Brightman (actor)
34 - Darren Criss (actor/singer)
36 - Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer player)
37 - Tyler Farr (country singer)
41 - Tiwa Savage (singer)
50 - Sara Evans (country singer)
51 - David Chisum (actor)
52 - Michael Sheen (actor)
52 - Bobby Brown (singer)
54 - Chris Parnell (actor/comedian)
55 - Jose Maria Olazabal (golfer)
57 - Laura Linney (actress)
59 - Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress)
60 - Tim Meadows (actor/comedian)
73 - Tom Wilkinson (actor)
73 - Christopher Guest (actor)
73 - Barbara Hershey (actress)
74 - Darrell Waltrip (race car driver)
75 - Charlotte Rampling (actress)
77 - Al Kooper (singer)
79 - Roger Staubach (football player)
80 - Barrett Strong (singer)
80 - David Selby (actor)
84 - Stuart Damon (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 5
1950 - Dick Irvin (Montreal Canadiens) became the first NHL coach to win 500 games. He ended his career with 690 wins.
1969 - Vince Lombardi is named part owner, vice president, general manager and head coach of the Washington Redskins.
1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1977 - Sugar Ray Leonard makes his professional boxing debut with a 6 round unanimous decision over Luis Vega in Baltimore.
1988 - A professional wrestling match aired on national primetime television for the first time in 30 years, with Hulk Hogan taking on Andre the Giant.
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the first NBA player to score 38,000 points.
1990 - NBC obtained the television broadcast rights to all of Notre Dame's home football games for the next five years as the school became the first to sell its broadcast rights to a major network.
1994 - Peter Bondra (Washington Capitals) became the 10th player in NHL history to score four goals in one period.
1997 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) became the seventh player to score 600 career goals.
1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed an agreement to purchase the Minnesota Vikings for an NFL franchise record $200 million.
2003 - Bob Knight (Texas Tech) coached his 800th victory.
2003 - Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) got his 600th career assist making him only the second American-born player to get 400 goals and 600 assists. Jeremy Roenick was the first American-born player to achieve the feat.
2006 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Detroit to win Super Bowl XL, their fifth Super Bowl title. Pittsburgh receiver Hines Ward is named MVP and running back Jerome Bettis announces his retirement following the game.
2011 - Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders led a class of seven voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame; joining them were Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Ed Sabol, Les Richter and Chris Hanburger.
2012 - The New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots 21-17 in Indianapolis to win Super Bowl XLVI; New York quarterback Eli Manning is named MVP.
2017 - The New England Patriots defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime Houston to win Super Bowl LI; New England quarterback Tom Brady is named MVP. To date, this is the only Super Bowl in history to go into overtime. The win was the fifth Super Bowl championship for the Patriots.