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Events on February 5

• 1637 At an auction in Alkmaar, the great tulip mania in the Netherlands reaches its peak. Not long afterward, the first “stock market crash” in history occurs. Trading stops completely, and prices fall by more than 95%.
• 1887 The opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, is premiered with triumphant success at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Only Verdi himself is dissatisfied with the performance.
• 1916 Authors Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings open the Zurich Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dadaism.
• 1936 Charlie Chaplin's satirical silent film Modern Times premieres in New York. The film, which presents a satire on Taylorism in the workplace, becomes one of Chaplin's most successful works.
• 1956 Süddeutscher Rundfunk puts the Stuttgart TV Tower into operation, the first reinforced concrete tower of its kind.
• 1967 Vicco von Bülow presents the first episode of the ARD television series Cartoon, in which he also contributes drawings as Loriot.
• 1971 The Apollo 14 lunar module, with astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard, is the third module in the Apollo program to land safely on the Moon, in the Fra Mauro crater.
• 1982 German Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) wins the confidence vote he called in 1982 over differences with coalition partner FDP concerning the federal budget, with 269 votes to 224.
• 1989 As a joint venture between the EBU and Sky Television, Eurosport begins its television broadcasting, specializing primarily in sports events.
• 1995 In an attack with pipe bombs and booby traps, four Roma are killed in Oberwart, Burgenland, Austria. Years later, Franz Fuchs is identified as the right-wing extremist lone perpetrator.
• 2004 In Berlin, the feature film Cold Mountain by Anthony Minghella, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger, opens the Berlin International Film Festival.
• 2024 In Frankfurt am Main, Mathias Beck is elected president of Eintracht Frankfurt as successor to Peter Fischer.

Born on February 5

• 1878 André Citroën, French automobile engineer
• 1900 Adlai Ewing Stevenson jr., American politician
• 1902 Hilde Benjamin, German jurist, Minister of Justice of the GDR, presiding judge in show trials
• 1921 Ken Adam, German-British production designer
• 1940 HR Giger, Swiss visual artist and painter, Oscar winner
• 1941 Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councillor
• 1961 Dietmar Bär, German actor
• 1962 Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• 1971 Terézia Mora, Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator
• 1980 Meike Droste, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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