What happend on 5th February

04.02
06.02
1953

The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).

1946

The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.

1945

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

1937

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.

1929

"They'll Do It Every Time", a comic strip still in syndication as of 2005, debuts in a San Francisco newspaper.

1924

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".

1922

DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest. (Some sources say February 7.)

1919

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

1917

The Congress of the United States passes a law banning most Asian immigration.

1917

The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.