5th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1808
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Carl Spitzweg, German artist ."
• event
  • 1811
  • Great Britain
  • Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
  • 1919
  • United States
  • "Hollywood film studio United Artists was founded by actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith"
  • 1957
  • Great Britain
  • "Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England, 1957, in the Queen Elizabeth, for rock and roll tour."
  • 1958
  • United States
  • "The US Air Force lost a 3500 kg hydrogen bomb – the Tybee Bomb – off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. It has never been recovered."
  • 1983
  • Germany
  • Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was expelled from Bolivia and flew to France to be tried for crimes against humanity
  • 1988
  • Great Britain
  • Comic Relief held the first 'Red Nose Day'
  • 1989
  • Great Britain
  • Sky TV was launched in Britain
• Death
  • 1993
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Sidney Bernstein, British entrepreneur and film producer, founder of Granada Television."
  • 1999
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Wassily Leontief, Russian-born American economist and Nobel Prize winner, known as the father of input-output analysis"