Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 5
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February 5: Constitution Day in Mexico; Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2010)
- 1782 – Running out of medical supplies to combat the disease scurvy, British troops surrendered to an allied Franco-Spanish force, ending the latter's invasion of the Island of Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1862 – Domnitor Alexander John Cuza merged his two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia, to form the Danubian Principalities.
- 1885 – Leopold II of Belgium (pictured) established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in Africa through his organization International African Association and his private army, the Force Publique.
- 1917 – The U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 with an overwhelming majority, overriding U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning, among others, immigration from nearly all of South and Southeast Asia.
- 1958 – A Mark 15 nuclear bomb now known as the Tybee Bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia, U.S. after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.