February 5
1556Henry II of France and Philip of Spain sign the truce of Vaucelles.
1631A ship from Bristol, the Lyon, arrives with provisions for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1762Martinique, a major French base in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, surrenders to the British.
1783Sweden recognizes U.S. independence.
1846The first Pacific Coast newspaper, Oregon Spectator, is published.
1864 Federal forces occupy Jackson, Miss.
1865 The three-day Battle of Hatcher's Run, Va., begins.
1900The United States and Great Britain sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, giving the United States the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not to fortify it.
1917U.S. Congress nullifies President Woordrow Wilson's veto of the Immigration Act; literacy tests are required.
1918The Soviets proclaim separation of church and state.
1922The Reader's Digest begins publication in New York.
1922William Larned's steel-framed tennis racquet gets its first test.
1945 American and French troops destroy German forces in the Colmar Pocket in France.
1947The Soviet Union and Great Britain reject terms for an American trusteeship over Japanese Pacific Isles.
1952New York adopts three-colored traffic lights.
1961The Soviets launch Sputnik V, the heaviest satellite to date at 7.1 tons.
1968 U.S. troops divide Viet Cong at Hue while the Saigon government claims they will arm loyal citizens.
1971Two Apollo 14 astronauts walk on the moon.
1972 It is reported that the United States has agreed to sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel.
1974Patty Hearst is kidnapped at gunpoint.
1985U.S. halts a loan to Chile in protest over human rights abuses.




Born on February 5
1723John Witherspoon, Declaration of Independence signer.
1788Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister.
1837Dwight L. Moody, evangelist, founder of the Moody Bible Institute.
1848 Belle Starr, Western outlaw.
1872Lafayette Benedict Mendel, biochemist.
1898Ralph McGill, editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution.
1900Adlai E. Stevenson II, Illinois governor and presidential candidate.
1914Sir Alan Hodgin, English physiologist and biophysicist.
1926Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, longtime New York Times publisher.
1934Hank Aaron, American hall of fame baseball player.
1938John Guare, playwright (The House of Blue Leaves).

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