FEB 5th THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Famous Quote Said On February 5  We are the ones we have been waiting for.  Barack Obama, 2008 Feb 5 Birthdays 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter 1969 - Michael Sheen 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh 1948 - Christopher Guest 1948 - Barbara Hershey 1942 - Roger Staubach 1940 - H.R. Giger 1935 - Alex Harvey 1934 - Henry Hank Aaron 1928 - Andrew Greeley 1919 - Red Buttons 1914 - William Burroughs 1900 - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Feb 5 In History 1958 - Tybee Hydrogen Bomb (undetonated) is lost off the coast of Georgia. 1924 - Royal Greenwich Observatory broadcasts first hourly Greenwich Mean Time signals. 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. 1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends 1852 - The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opens to the public. This Day in Business1919 - Film studio United Artists Corporation is formed - by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith This Day in Entertainment  1922 - The first Reader's Digest magazine is published by DeWitt and Lila Wallace. This Day in Geography  1881 - Phoenix, Arizona - one of the largest populated cities in America, is incorporated. This Day in Sports  1977 - The one and only Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in his 1st ever professional boxing match. Today's HolidayNational Weatherperson's Day - Recognizes those in the fields of meteorology, forecasting and broadcast meteorology.