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What happened on 5 February?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 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
  2. 1985 Born: Cristiano Ronaldo Portuguese footballer; multiple Ballon d'Ors.
  3. 1967 Nyerere proclaims Tanzania's Arusha Declaration Julius Nyerere announces ujamaa African socialism for newly-independent Tanzania.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 1936 Modern Times released Chaplin satire on industrial labour; the Little Tramp on the assembly line.
  7. 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
  8. 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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