Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 5
February 5: Constitution Day in Mexico; Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2008); Shrove Tuesday in Western Christianity and Mardi Gras (2008).
- 1862 – Domnitor Alexander John Cuza (pictured) merged his two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia, to form the United Principalities (now Romania).
- 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in Africa through his organization Association Internationale Africaine and his private army, the Force Publique.
- 1924 – Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC.
- 1958 – A hydrogen bomb now known as the Tybee Bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.
- 2004 – The Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured Gonaïves, Haiti, starting the 2004 Haitian rebellion against the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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