What Day of the Week

February 5, 2018 was the 36^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 329 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1810

  Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
• 1818

  Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1852

  The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
• 1919

  Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1982

  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.
• 1988

  Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• 1994

  Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 2004

  Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
• 2008

  A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
• 2019

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Pig in Chinese astrology.

• 1804

  Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
• 1911

  Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
• 1919

  Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1929

  Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
• 1944

  Al Kooper, American musician
• 1956

  Betty Ong, Flight attendant of American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001 (d. 2001)
• 1975

  Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
• 1982

  Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1982

  Wheesung, Korean R&B singer
• 1985

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

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