Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 5

This is a list of selected February 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Prince Alexander John Cuza of Romania
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  Leopold II
• Leopold II of Belgium
  Leopold II of Belgium
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  Jean Baptiste Bernadotte

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1782 – Running out of medical supplies to combat the disease scurvy, British troops surrendered to an allied Franco-Spanish force, ending the latter's invasion of the Island of Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea.	{{refimprove}}
1818 – Marshal of France Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascended to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.	Tagged {{nofootnotes}}
1862 – Domnitor Alexander John Cuza merged his two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia, to form the Danubian Principalities	Not bolded, tagged with {{POV}}. AJC tagged for citations
1885 – Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in Africa through his organization International African Association and his private army, the Force Publique.	{{refimprove}}
1924 – Hourly Greenwich Time Signals<!-Not bolded, tagged with {{Refimprove}}-> from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC.
1988 – The first Red Nose Day raised £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.	Multiple {{cn}} tags
2004 – Twenty-three cockle pickers drowned after being trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England, an event that led to the establishment of the British government's Gangmasters Licensing Authority.	Multiple {{cn}} tags, especially for a short-ish article
2004 – The Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured Gonaïves, Haiti, starting the 2004 Haitian rebellion against the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.	Tagged for cleanup

Eligible

February 5: Constitution Day in Mexico (1917); Kashmir Day in Pakistan

• 1783 – The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of Calabria in present-day southern Italy, killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months.

• 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico (seal pictured) was adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

• 1923 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford made 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class score.

• 1958 – A Mark 15 nuclear bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia, US after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.

• 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen established the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of European Union law.

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