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Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on February 5.

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holidays & events
  •  Bartender's Cup
  •  Disaster Day
  •  Lailatul Quadr (Night of Power)
  •  National Chocolate Fondue Day
  •  Primrose Day
  •  Wyrd's Day (Celtic Goddess of Fortune Telling)

Christian holidays


anniversaries

  •  Weatherman's Day - honoring the birth of Boston physician John Jeffries  (1745), who kept a complete weather record until his death in 1819
  •  the Third Punic War, the longest war in history, officially ends after 2,131 years (1985) - begun in 146 B.C. involving Rome and Carthage
  •  Finland - J.L. Runeborg's Birthday 1804
  •  San Marino - Liberation Day 1945
  •  Constitution Day - Mexico
  •  CCm Day - Tanzania (1977)
  •  Constitution Day - Mexico
  •  San Felipe - Mexico
  •  Ratification of Human Rights Conventions 1952
  •  United Nations Women's Guild founded 1948

directories


February holidays & events by location

 
Africa

Africa

  •  Chama Cha Mapinduzi Day (a/k/a CCM Day) - in Tanzania
 
Asia & the Middle East

Asia

  •  Japanese Martyr Day

Middle East

 
Australia & Oceania

Australia and Oceania

 
Europe

Europe

  •  2006:  Homstrom - in Switzerland; features the burning of straw men on poles, symbolizing Old Man Winter departing
 
North & Central America

North America


Caribbean

  •  Bob Marley Day - in Jamaica

Central America

 
South America

South America

 
calendar & zodiac

Gregorian calendar

  •  Day 36, with 329 days remaining in the year
  •  2001 A. D.: Monday
  •  2002 A. D.:  Tuesday
  •  2003 A. D.:  Wednesday
  •  2004 A. D.:  Friday
  •  2005 A. D.:  Saturday
  •  2006 A. D.:  Sunday
  •  2007 A. D.:  Monday
  •  2008 A. D.:  Wednesday
  •  2009 A. D.:  Thursday
  •  2010 A. D.:  Friday
  •  2011 A. D.:  Saturday

other calendars


season

  •  Northern hemisphere:  Winter
  •  Southern hemisphere:  Summer

zodiac


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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008