Its another brand new day in the month of February, the month of great Men.. Today in history brings to light some superb players in the football world, players like CR7, Tevez, Nemar, to mention but a few...Enjoy NTB's today in history...
February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar, is internationally the most widely
used civil calendar. It has been the unofficial global standard for decades, recognised by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year(330 in leap years).
146 : Punic Wars ended. The Third Punic War, the last of three between Rome and Carthage, came to an end this day in 146 BCE, culminating in the final destruction of Carthage,the enslavement of its people, and Roman hegemony over the Mediterranean.
1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II. Charles II, while living in exile at the Hague, was recently informed that his father was beheaded at Whitehall on Jan 30.
1663 - Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England
1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1783 - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence
1795 - Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud
1840 Feb 5, Hiram Stevens Maxim (d.1916), inventor of the automatic single-barrel rifle, was born in Sangerville, Maine. He invented the hair-curling iron, and patented such items as a mousetrap, a locomotive headlight, a method of manufacturing carbon filaments for lamps, and an automatic sprinkling system.
1900:The first of two Hay-Pauncefote treaties (named for U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Lord Pauncefote)
was signed between the United States and Great Britain over control of the proposed Panama Canal.
1901 - Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1917:Mexico adopted its present constitution.
1931 - Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S.
1962 Feb 5, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned within a 16 degree arc.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1969 - US population reaches 200 million
1969 - Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. Brown started his career as one of the frontmen of the pop
group New Edition, from its inception as The Bricks in 1978 until his forced exit from the group in 1986 following a period of misbehaviour on his part. Starting a solo career, he became a
hit success with his second album in 1988, Don't Be Cruel, which spawned a number of hit singles including the co-self penned " My Prerogative", which became his signature hit. Brown had a string of top ten hits on various Billboard charts between 1986 and 1992, and is a recipient of a Grammy Award. Brown is noted as a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip-hop and R&B. It was later discovered that he was the ex-husband of Pop singer, Whitney Houston.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1982 Feb 5, Laker Airways, founded in 1966 by Sir Freddie Laker, collapsed owing $351M.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laker_Airways)
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1984 – Nate Salley, American football player
1984 – Carlos Tévez, is an Argentinian footballer, the 29 years old, had played for big football clubs like West Ham United, Manchester United and Manchester City. He is currently in Juventus, and he is a fine forward player.
1985 – Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
1985 – Crystal Hunt, American actress
1985:Portuguese football (soccer) player Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the finest forwards of his generation, was born in Funchal, Portugal. He is the current FIFA World Best Player of the Year...
1992 - Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, was born in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. The 21 year old golden forward player is currently playing for FC Barcelona, but he hails from Brazil..
1994:Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963; Beckwith received a life sentence.
February 5, 1994 – Benedict “Ben” Chukadibia Enwonwu dies in Lagos, Nigeria. Enwonwu was a modernist sculptor and painter, who created a number of significant pieces in Nigerian Art history. An example is the sculptor of Queen Elizabeth II, which he created in 1957, in advance of the Queen’s visit to Nigeria. Enwonwu would become the first African to be commissioned to create a piece of art for a sitting British
monarch. The Enwonwu crater on Mercury was named in his honor.
1996 Feb 5, Actress Elizabeth Taylor filed for divorce from Larry Fortensky, her seventh husband.
1997 Feb 5, In Algeria rebels killed a family of 9 by hacking off their heads in Benchikao. The government in Algiers began banning parked cars in the city to thwart car bomb attacks.
1998 Feb 5, In India a tractor pulling a trolley full of children crashed into a truck and plunged into a river and killed at least 34 in Madhya Pradesh state.
1998 Feb 5, In the Ivory Coast Kevin Leveille (26), a Peace Corps worker from Ventura, Ca., was attacked and killed in Tanda. He had 2 months left in his assigned task of working on water and sanitation problem.
1999 Feb 5, It was reported that Bill and Melinda Gates (Microsoft Corp.) gave $3.3 billion to their foundations, 2.2 billion to the William H. Gates Foundation and 1.1 billion to the Gates Learning Foundation.
1999 - Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31, 1998. Tyson was also fined $5,000, had to serve 2 years of probation, and had to perform 200 hours of community service upon release.
2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced their separation.
2001 Feb 5, In Illinois William D. Baker (66), shot and killed 4 employees at the Navistar factory in Melrose Park and then shot and killed himself. He was about to begin serving a 5-month sentence for conspiring to steal engines and parts.
2003:U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the United Nations Security Council to present evidence that Iraq possessed proscribed
weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate danger.
2008 Feb 5, In Rwanda Theoneste Niyitegeka, a doctor and one-time possible presidential candidate, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide.
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February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar, is internationally the most widely
used civil calendar. It has been the unofficial global standard for decades, recognised by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year(330 in leap years).
146 : Punic Wars ended. The Third Punic War, the last of three between Rome and Carthage, came to an end this day in 146 BCE, culminating in the final destruction of Carthage,the enslavement of its people, and Roman hegemony over the Mediterranean.
1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II. Charles II, while living in exile at the Hague, was recently informed that his father was beheaded at Whitehall on Jan 30.
1663 - Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England
1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1783 - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence
1795 - Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud
1840 Feb 5, Hiram Stevens Maxim (d.1916), inventor of the automatic single-barrel rifle, was born in Sangerville, Maine. He invented the hair-curling iron, and patented such items as a mousetrap, a locomotive headlight, a method of manufacturing carbon filaments for lamps, and an automatic sprinkling system.
1900:The first of two Hay-Pauncefote treaties (named for U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Lord Pauncefote)
was signed between the United States and Great Britain over control of the proposed Panama Canal.
1901 - Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1917:Mexico adopted its present constitution.
1931 - Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S.
1962 Feb 5, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned within a 16 degree arc.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1969 - US population reaches 200 million
1969 - Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. Brown started his career as one of the frontmen of the pop
group New Edition, from its inception as The Bricks in 1978 until his forced exit from the group in 1986 following a period of misbehaviour on his part. Starting a solo career, he became a
hit success with his second album in 1988, Don't Be Cruel, which spawned a number of hit singles including the co-self penned " My Prerogative", which became his signature hit. Brown had a string of top ten hits on various Billboard charts between 1986 and 1992, and is a recipient of a Grammy Award. Brown is noted as a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip-hop and R&B. It was later discovered that he was the ex-husband of Pop singer, Whitney Houston.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1982 Feb 5, Laker Airways, founded in 1966 by Sir Freddie Laker, collapsed owing $351M.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laker_Airways)
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1984 – Nate Salley, American football player
1984 – Carlos Tévez, is an Argentinian footballer, the 29 years old, had played for big football clubs like West Ham United, Manchester United and Manchester City. He is currently in Juventus, and he is a fine forward player.
1985 – Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
1985 – Crystal Hunt, American actress
1985:Portuguese football (soccer) player Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the finest forwards of his generation, was born in Funchal, Portugal. He is the current FIFA World Best Player of the Year...
1992 - Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, was born in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. The 21 year old golden forward player is currently playing for FC Barcelona, but he hails from Brazil..
1994:Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963; Beckwith received a life sentence.
February 5, 1994 – Benedict “Ben” Chukadibia Enwonwu dies in Lagos, Nigeria. Enwonwu was a modernist sculptor and painter, who created a number of significant pieces in Nigerian Art history. An example is the sculptor of Queen Elizabeth II, which he created in 1957, in advance of the Queen’s visit to Nigeria. Enwonwu would become the first African to be commissioned to create a piece of art for a sitting British
monarch. The Enwonwu crater on Mercury was named in his honor.
1996 Feb 5, Actress Elizabeth Taylor filed for divorce from Larry Fortensky, her seventh husband.
1997 Feb 5, In Algeria rebels killed a family of 9 by hacking off their heads in Benchikao. The government in Algiers began banning parked cars in the city to thwart car bomb attacks.
1998 Feb 5, In India a tractor pulling a trolley full of children crashed into a truck and plunged into a river and killed at least 34 in Madhya Pradesh state.
1998 Feb 5, In the Ivory Coast Kevin Leveille (26), a Peace Corps worker from Ventura, Ca., was attacked and killed in Tanda. He had 2 months left in his assigned task of working on water and sanitation problem.
1999 Feb 5, It was reported that Bill and Melinda Gates (Microsoft Corp.) gave $3.3 billion to their foundations, 2.2 billion to the William H. Gates Foundation and 1.1 billion to the Gates Learning Foundation.
1999 - Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31, 1998. Tyson was also fined $5,000, had to serve 2 years of probation, and had to perform 200 hours of community service upon release.
2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced their separation.
2001 Feb 5, In Illinois William D. Baker (66), shot and killed 4 employees at the Navistar factory in Melrose Park and then shot and killed himself. He was about to begin serving a 5-month sentence for conspiring to steal engines and parts.
2003:U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the United Nations Security Council to present evidence that Iraq possessed proscribed
weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate danger.
2008 Feb 5, In Rwanda Theoneste Niyitegeka, a doctor and one-time possible presidential candidate, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide.
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