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What happened on 5 February?
8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.
1917
The Constitution of 1917
The constitution written at Querétaro goes further than any before it: land reform and national ownership of subsoil wealth, the eight-hour day and the right to strike, secular edu
1985
Born: Cristiano Ronaldo
Portuguese footballer; multiple Ballon d'Ors.
1967
Nyerere proclaims Tanzania's Arusha Declaration
Julius Nyerere announces ujamaa African socialism for newly-independent Tanzania.
2003
Powell makes the case at the UN
Holding up a model vial of anthrax before the Security Council, the most trusted man in the administration lays out the intelligence case that Iraq hides weapons of mass destructio
1597
The 26 martyrs of Nagasaki
Alarmed by a Spanish pilot's boast that missionaries went ahead of conquest, Hideyoshi has twenty-six Christians — Japanese converts, Franciscan friars, three teenage boys — marche
1936
Modern Times released
Chaplin satire on industrial labour; the Little Tramp on the assembly line.
1811
Britain's Regency era
George III's madness puts his son at the head of the state as Prince Regent: the age of Austen and Byron, Beau Brummell's dandies, Nash's London, Waterloo and Peterloo — glamour an
2017
Brady's comeback in Super Bowl LI
New England trail Atlanta 28-3 in the third quarter and win in overtime; the largest comeback in Super Bowl history.
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