February 5<\/p>\n
1576 \u2013 Henry of Navarre rejects Catholicism at Tours, France and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.<\/p>\n
1597 \u2013 A group of Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.<\/p>\n
1849 \u2013 University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison’s first class meets at Madison Female Academy.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 The voivode of Moldavia and the warlords of ancient Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities with Alexandru Cuza as Domnitor.<\/p>\n
1907 \u2013 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 West Plains, Missouri native, Lt. Stephen W. Thompson, flying with a French squadron as a bombardier\/gunner, shoots down a German Albatros D.III over Saarbrucken, the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. 1919 \u2013 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.<\/p>\n 1924 \u2013 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 Off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, a US F-86 fighter collides mid-air with a US B-47 bomber carrying a Mark-15 thermonuclear bomb. While there are no fatalities or injuries, the crew of the bomber jettisons the bomb,\u00a0 which has never been recovered, into the water near Wassaw Sound<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Edgar D. Mitchell undock from the Command Module Kitty Hawk <\/em>piloted by Stuart Roosa and land the Lunar Module Antares<\/em> on the Frau Mauro highlands on the mission originally planned for Apollo 13.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the 3rd Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Panamanian military dictator Manuel Noriega is indicted by federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa on drug smuggling and money laundering charges, eventually leading, in large part, to the U.S. invasion of Panama in late 1989.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 A major tornado outbreak of 87 tornadoes across the southern U.S. and the lower Ohio Valley kills 57 people across four states and 18 counties, with hundreds of others injured.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 5 1576 \u2013 Henry of Navarre rejects Catholicism at Tours, France and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. 1597 \u2013 A group of Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1849 \u2013 University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison’s first class meets … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89803,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64530\/revisions\/89803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe British Anchor Line SS Tuscania<\/em> is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland, the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.<\/p>\n