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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

This was 36th day of the year and 329 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 25 Shevat 5773
Chinese calendar — the 25th day of the 12th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

February 5 Birthdays

Adlai Stevenson
1900–1965, American Statesman.

Sir Robert Peel
statesman (1788)

Dwight L. Moody
evangelist (1837)

Belle Starr
outlaw (1848?)

Norton Simon
food industry executive, art collector (1907)

Hank Aaron
baseball player (1934)

Jennifer Jason Leigh
actress (1962)

Jeremy Sumpter
actor (1989)

February 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28

February 5 in History

1811

After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.

1917

Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto.

1917

Mexico adopted its present constitution.

1937

FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court.

1994

Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime 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.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.