What Day of the Week

February 5, 2020 was the 36^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 330 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 62

  Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
• 1576

  Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
• 1782

  Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
• 1810

  Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
• 1913

  Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1919

  Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1943

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• 1962

  French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
• 1988

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

• 1903

  Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)
• 1919

  Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1936

  K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Kannada Poet
• 1965

  Keith Moseley, American musician (The String Cheese Incident)
• 1969

  Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
• 1975

  Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
• 1976

  Brian Moorman, American football player
• 1978

  Brian Russell, American football player
• 1987

  Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989

  Jeremy Sumpter, American actor

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