What Day of the Week

February 5, 2019 was the 36^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 329 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1597

  A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
• 1778

  South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• 1818

  Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1900

  The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
• 1913

  Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1917

  The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
• 1924

  The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
• 1939

  Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th “Caudillo de España”, or Leader of Spain.
• 2000

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• 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.

• 976

  Emperor Sanjō, of Japan (d. 1017)
• 1848

  Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
• 1908

  Peg Entwistle, English actress (d. 1932)
• 1911

  Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
• 1923

  Claude King, American musician
• 1950

  Jonathan Freeman, American actor
• 1966

  Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
• 1977

  Adam Everett, American baseball player
• 1980

  Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
• 1989

  Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress

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