Hisdates•Com
HomePage 10: Historical Events In February - 27
Thursday, 05 February 2026
1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr 
1993 Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway.
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed.
1994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84
1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1995 Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67
1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India.
1996 Francois Chaumette, actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72
1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1997 Divorces become legal in Ireland.
1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer.
1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati.
1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges.
1999 Democratic rule returns to Nigeria as its citizens elect Olusegun Obasanjo as president
2007 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing: A Taliban suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney is visiting results in the deaths of 23, but he is not injured.
2007 The Chinese Correction: world stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
2010 An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing 497. The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.
2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor.
2012 Arab Spring: As a result of ongoing protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is succeeded by Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi.
2013 20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India
2014 Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government
2018 Jared Kushner , son-in-law of President Trump, has his top-secret security clearance at the White House downgraded.
2018 Barbra Streisand reveals she has cloned her dog twice
2019 "Captain Marvel" film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson premieres
2019 Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam
2019 Actor Luke Perry (52) suffers a stroke in Los Angeles
2019 Ramses Station rail disaster: A train smashes into a barrier inside Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt, causing an explosion and a fire, killing 25 people and injuring 40 others
2019 The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.
2020 Dow Jones Index suffers its biggest points fall in history closing down 1190.95 in New York amid concerns about coronavirus Learn More
2020 2020 stock market crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges by 1190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25766.64, its largest one-day point decline at the time. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading COVID-19.
2023 New post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland announced by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen [1].
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »
