Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg from his Harvard dorm room
MajorOriginally called 'TheFacebook' and limited to Harvard students, the social networking site would grow to become one of the most influential companies...
February 5 in History
Significant events that happened on this day.
Historical Events
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1974
Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
The 19-year-old granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley apartment in one of the most bizarre cases in American history...
1958
A United States Air Force B-47 bomber accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near Savannah, Georgia
During a training mission, the bomber collided with an F-86 fighter jet and jettisoned a 7,600-pound Mark 15 nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Is...
1943
The Disney animated film Bambi was banned in Nazi Germany
Nazi officials declared the movie 'political propaganda' because the deer was portrayed as innocent and sympathetic. This absurd ban came from a regim...
1934
Hank Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama
MajorThe future baseball legend would go on to break Babe Ruth's home run record with 755 career home runs. Despite facing intense racism during his pursui...
1919
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith founded United Artists studio
MajorFour of Hollywood's biggest stars created their own film distribution company to gain control over their work. This move revolutionized the film indus...
1918
The USS Cyclops departed Barbados and disappeared with 306 crew members aboard
The Navy cargo ship vanished without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle, becoming the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly invo...
1917
Mexico's new constitution was adopted, establishing progressive labor rights and land reform
The Constitution of 1917 was one of the world's first to guarantee social rights including an eight-hour workday, minimum wage, and the right to strik...
1897
The Indiana House of Representatives attempted to legislate the value of pi to exactly 3.2
A physician and amateur mathematician convinced a state representative to introduce a bill that would have legally fixed the value of pi to a simpler...
1885
King Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo Free State as his personal possession
MajorThe Belgian monarch claimed an area 76 times larger than Belgium as his private property. His brutal regime would lead to the deaths of millions of Co...
1818
Karl Marx was born in Trier, Prussia
MajorThe philosopher and economist would write Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, works that profoundly influenced world history. His ideas about cla...
1631
Roger Williams emigrated to Boston, later founding Rhode Island on principles of religious freedom
MajorThe English Puritan minister would be banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for his radical views on separation of church and state. He went on to es...