Once Upon A Time – Feb. 5 – 1835 – 12 American Congregationalist Missionaries First See Africa From Deck Of Ship

1576 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours

1597 A group of early Japanese Christians, known as the 26 Martyrs, are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society

1835 Twelve American Congregationalist missionaries first see Africa from the deck of a ship through a mist. Among them is Daniel Lindley who will win renown educating Africans and pleading with the Dutch-descended Boers to ease their inflexible racism.

1885 News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London

1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession

1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla

1969 United States population reaches 200 million

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1936 “Modern Times”, silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released

Today in Music
1887 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Otello” premieres at La Scala in Italy, Verdi’s first new opera for over 15 years

Today in Sport
1972 Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame

Do you know this fact about today?
1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.

Would you believe this fact about today?
1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane


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