In the present day is Wednesday, Feb. 5, the thirty sixth day of 2025. There are 329 days left within the yr.
In the present day in historical past:
On Feb. 5, 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell stepped onto the floor of the moon within the first of two lunar excursions.
Additionally on this date:
In 1917, the U.S. Congress handed the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, an act that severely curtailed Asian immigration and mandated immigrant literacy testing.
In 1918, greater than 200 folks had been killed throughout World Struggle I when the Cunard liner SS Tuscania, which was transporting over 2,000 American troops to Europe, was torpedoed by a German U-boat within the Irish Sea.
In 1973, providers had been held at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery for U.S. Military Col. William B. Nolde, the final official American fight casualty earlier than the Vietnam ceasefire took impact.
In 1993, President Invoice Clinton signed the Household and Medical Depart Act, granting staff as much as 12 weeks of unpaid go away for household emergencies.
In 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights chief Medgar Evers in 1963 and was sentenced to life in jail.
In 2017, Tom Brady led one of many biggest comebacks in NFL historical past, highlighted by a spectacular Julian Edelman catch that helped carry New England from a 25-point deficit in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons to the Patriots’ fifth Tremendous Bowl victory, 34-28; it was the primary Tremendous Bowl to finish in time beyond regulation.
In 2020, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump, bringing to a detailed the third presidential trial in American historical past. Although a majority of senators expressed unease with Trump’s stress marketing campaign on Ukraine that resulted within the two articles of impeachment, only one Republican, Mitt Romney of Utah, broke with the GOP and voted to convict.
In 2023, Beyoncé gained her thirty second Grammy to turn into probably the most adorned artist within the historical past of the award.
In the present day’s birthdays:
- Tony-winning playwright John Guare is 87.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Roger Staubach is 83.
- Movie director Michael Mann is 82.
- Actor Charlotte Rampling is 79.
- Racing Corridor of Famer Darrell Waltrip is 78.
- Actor Barbara Hershey is 77.
- Actor Christopher Visitor is 77.
- Actor-comedian Tim Meadows is 64.
- Actor Jennifer Jason Leigh is 63.
- Actor Laura Linney is 61.
- Rock musician Duff McKagan (Weapons N’ Roses) is 61.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Jose Maria Olazabal is 59.
- Actor-comedian Chris Parnell is 58.
- Singer Bobby Brown is 56.
- Actor Michael Sheen is 56.
- Nation singer Sara Evans is 54.
- Actor-singer Darren Criss is 38.
- Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is 40.
- Actor Henry Golding is 38.
- Soccer star Neymar is 33.