Editing February 5 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[J. P. Morgan]] incorporates [[U.S. Steel]] in the state of [[New Jersey]],<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Poor's Manual of Industrials|location=New York|publisher=Poor's Manual Company|date=1916|oclc=1776201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LzxJAQAAMAAJ|page=1247}}</ref> although the company would not start doing business until February 25<ref>{{cite news|title=Giant Steel Trust Launched at Last|work=The New York Times|date=February 26, 1901|page=3|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/02/26/102624117.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and the assets of [[Andrew Carnegie]]'s [[Carnegie Steel Company]], [[Elbert H. Gary]]'s [[Federal Steel Company]], and [[William Henry "Judge" Moore|William Henry Moore]]'s National Steel Company were not acquired until April 1.<ref>{{cite news|title=Steel Trust's Capital to Be $1,100,000,000|work=The New York Times|date=April 2, 1901|page=2|postscript=;}} {{cite book|last=Warren|first=Kenneth|title=Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001|location=Pittsburgh|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|date=2001|isbn=9780822970590|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixYEjoykrhYC|page=21}}</ref>
*[[1905]] &ndash; In Mexico, the [[General Hospital of Mexico]] is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
*[[1907]] &ndash; Belgian chemist [[Leo Baekeland]] announces the creation of [[Bakelite]], the world's first synthetic [[plastic]].
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Hellenic Air Force|Greek military aviators]] [[Michael Moutoussis]] and [[Aristeidis Moraitinis (aviator)|Aristeidis Moraitinis]] perform the first [[naval aviation|naval air]] mission in history, with a [[Farman MF.7]] hydroplane.
*  1913   &ndash; [[Claudio Monteverdi]]'s last opera ''[[L'incoronazione di Poppea]]'' was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.<ref>{{cite book|author-link= Mark Ringer|last= Ringer|first= Mark|title= Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYMu68t63zwC&pg=PA132 |publisher= Amadeus Press|location= Newark N.J.|year= 2006|isbn= 1-57467-110-3 |page=132}}</ref>
*[[1917]] &ndash; The [[Constitution of Mexico|current constitution]] of Mexico is adopted, establishing a [[federal republic]] with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
*  1917   &ndash; The [[United States Congress|Congress of the United States]] passes the [[Immigration Act of 1917]] over President [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s veto. 
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Stephen W. Thompson]] shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
*  1918   &ndash; {{SS|Tuscania|1914|6}} is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Mary Pickford]], [[Douglas Fairbanks]], and [[D. W. Griffith]] launch [[United Artists]].
*[[1924]] &ndash; The [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich|Royal Greenwich Observatory]] begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the [[Greenwich Time Signal]].
*[[1933]] &ndash; Mutiny on [[Royal Netherlands Navy]] warship [[HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909)|HNLMS ''De Zeven Provinciën'']] off the coast of [[Sumatra]], [[Dutch East Indies]].
*[[1939]] &ndash; Generalísimo [[Francisco Franco]] becomes the 68th "''Caudillo de España''", or Leader of Spain.
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces begin the [[Battle of Keren]] to capture [[Keren, Eritrea]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: General [[Douglas MacArthur]] returns to [[Manila]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] is nominated to be the first president of the [[United Arab Republic]].
*  1958   &ndash; A [[Thermonuclear weapon|hydrogen bomb]] known as the Tybee Bomb is [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision|lost]] by the US Air Force off the coast of [[Savannah, Georgia]], never to be recovered.
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[President of France|French President]] [[Charles de Gaulle]] calls for [[Algeria]] to be granted independence.
*[[1963]] &ndash; The [[European Court of Justice]]'s ruling in ''[[Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen]]'' establishes the principle of [[Direct effect of European Union law|direct effect]], one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of [[European Union law]].
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Cultural Revolution]]: The [[Shanghai People's Commune]] is formally proclaimed, with [[Yao Wenyuan]] and [[Zhang Chunqiao]] being appointed as its leaders.<ref>{{cite book|last=Meisner|first=Maurice|author-link=Maurice Meisner|title=Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic|year=1986|location=[[New York City|New York]]|publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]|isbn=9780029208700|oclc=13270932|edition=3rd|url=https://libcom.org/library/maos-china-after-history-peoples-republic-maurice-meisner|pages=329–330}}</ref>
*[[1971]] &ndash; Astronauts land on the Moon in the [[Apollo 14]] mission.
*[[1975]] &ndash; Riots break out in [[Lima|Lima, Peru]] after the police forces go on strike [[February 4|the day before]]. The uprising (locally known as the ''[[Limazo]]'') is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Operation Soap]]: The [[Toronto Police Service|Metropolitan Toronto Police Force]] raids four gay bathhouses in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada, arresting just under 300, triggering mass protest and rallies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toronto bathhouse raids: How the arrests galvanized the gay community |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bathhouse-raids-toronto-police-gay-community-arrests-apology-1.3645926}}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Ugo Vetere]], then the mayor of Rome, and [[Chedli Klibi]], then the mayor of [[Carthage]], meet in [[Tunis]] to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the [[Third Punic War]] which lasted 2,131 years.
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Manuel Noriega]] is indicted on [[Illegal drug trade|drug smuggling]] and [[money laundering]] charges.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Byron De La Beckwith]] is convicted of the 1963 murder of [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] leader [[Medgar Evers]].
*  1994   &ndash; [[Markale massacres]], more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in [[Sarajevo]].
*[[1997]] &ndash; The so-called [[Banking in Switzerland#Major banks|Big Three banks]] in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71&nbsp;million fund to aid [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] survivors and their families.
*[[2000]] &ndash; Russian forces [[Novye Aldi massacre|massacre]] at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of [[Grozny]], Chechnya.
*[[2004]] &ndash; Rebels from the [[National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti|Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front]] capture the city of [[Gonaïves]], starting the [[2004 Haitian coup d'état|2004 Haiti rebellion]].
*[[2008]] &ndash; A [[2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak|major tornado outbreak]] across the [[Southern United States]] kills 57.
*[[2016]] &ndash; New Zealand politician [[Steven Joyce]] is [[Waitangi dildo incident|hit by a flung rubber dildo]] in a [[Waitangi Day]] protest.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35499554|title=NZ minister hit by sex toy in protest|date=5 February 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=6 February 2020|language=en-GB}}</ref> 
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Pope Francis]] becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform [[Papal Mass|papal mass]] in the [[Arabian Peninsula]] during his visit to [[Abu Dhabi]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pope Francis holds first Papal Mass in Abu Dhabi|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/pope-francis-holds-papal-mass-abu-dhabi-190205065039040.html|access-date=2020-08-25|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; United States President [[Donald Trump]] is acquitted by the [[United States Senate]] in his [[First impeachment trial of Donald Trump|first impeachment trial]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Trump impeachment vote live updates: Sharply divided Senate acquits Trump on both articles|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-poised-acquit-trump-historic-impeachment-trial/story?id=68774104|author1=Turner, Trish|author2=Libby Cathey|website=ABCNews.go.com|date=February 5, 2020|access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref>
*2020   &ndash; [[Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193]] overshoots the runway at [[Sabiha Gökçen International Airport]] and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.<ref name="AP 2020.02.05">{{cite news |date=5 February 2020 |title=Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured |url=https://apnews.com/f7a089322c96a26dfde4bb5c0ac30b1f |access-date=5 February 2020 |work=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; Police riot in [[Mexico City]] as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 February 2021 |title=Policías causan riña en manifestación de ciclistas en CDMX |trans-title=Police cause a brawl during a cyclist demonstration in Mexico City |url=https://posta.com.mx/estados/cdmx/policias-causan-rina-en-manifestacion-con-ciclistas-de-cdmx/ |access-date=March 11, 2021 |work=POSTA |language=es-MX}}</ref> Eleven police officers are arrested.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bravo |first1=Elba Mónica |date=6 February 2021 |title=Separan de su cargo a once elementos de la SSC tras riña con ciclistas |trans-title=Eleven SSC members removed from their posts after fight with cyclists |url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/02/06/capital/separan-de-su-cargo-a-elementos-de-la-ssc-tras-rina-con-ciclistas/ |access-date=March 11, 2021 |work=La Jornada |language=es}}</ref>