Daily Calendar for February 5th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1630s

• 1631: Religious leader Roger Williams arrived in America (Boston)

1780s

• Born 1784: Nancy Hanks Lincoln (mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln)

1840s

• 1840: First annual meeting of the American Statistical Association

• 1846: The Oregon Spectator was the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast of the United States

1900s

• 1901: Edwin Prescott was granted a patent for a centrifugal railway (an early design of a looping roller coaster)

1910s

• Born 1914: William Burroughs (author)

• Born 1919: Red Buttons (actor)

1920s

• 1921: The Yankees bought 10 acres in the Bronx, New York, for a stadium100 Years Ago

1930s

• Born 1934: Hank Aaron (baseball player)

1940s

• Born 1942: Roger Staubach (football player)

• 1948: Richard Button won Olympic gold for figure skating

• Born 1948: Barbara Hershey (actress)

1950s

• 1952: The first "Don't Walk" automatic signs were installed in New York City

• 1953: Walt Disney's Peter Pan premiered

1960s

• Born 1964: Laura Linney (actress)

1970s

• Born 1971: Sara Evans (country music singer)

• Died 1972: Marianne Moore (poet)

1980s

• 1980: Canadian industrialist and William Stephenson invested as Companion of Order of Canada

2000s

• 2002: RHESSI (then called HESSI) launched to study solar flares. (RHESSI stands for Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.)

• Died 2004: Samuel M. Rubin, known as "Sam the Popcorn Man" (the first to pop corn in machines on a widespread basis in theaters)

• 2005: The National Zoo's first litter of cheetahs in 115 years went on display to the public

• Died 2006: Franklin Cover (actor)

2010s

• Died 2011: Brian Jacques (children's author)

2020s

• Died 2020: Kirk Douglas (actor)