Today In History - 2/5/2012
  • 1736 - Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
  • 1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
  • 1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends
  • 1940 - Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
  • 1953 - "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
  • 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
  • 1967 - Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua
  • 1972 - Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
  • 1981 - Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
  • 1982 - Laker Airways collapse owing œ270M ($351M)
  • 1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minn Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
  • 1810 - Ole Bull, composer
  • 1867 - Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37)
  • 1881 - Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
  • 1889 - Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
  • 1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times)
  • 1937 - Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides)
  • 1944 - J R Cobb, Birmingham Ala, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV)
  • 1948 - Nigel Tufnel, rocker (Spinal Tap)
  • 1972 - Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri (1996)
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