February 5

Today in History
• 1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
• 1631 - Founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
• 1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
• 1782 - The Spanish captured Minorca from the British
• 1783 - Sweden recognized the independence of the United States
• 1861 - Samuel Goodale patented the moving picture peep show machine
• 1917 - Mexico's constitution was adopted
• 1931 - Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot

Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Kashmir Solidarity Day
• Maghi Purnima
• National Pork Rind Day
• National Weatherman's Day
• Scout Sunday
• Tourism Day
• Western Monarch Day
• World Nutella Day

Birthdays
• 976 - Sanjo, 67th Emperor of Japan (1011-16)
• 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
• 1748 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer, and tutor of Beethoven
• 1784 - Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln
• 1788 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British Prime Minister
• 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
• 1852 - Terauchi Masatake, soldier and politician (Prime Minister of Japan)
• 1900 - Adlai E Stevenson, Gov-D-Ill, President candidate