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Events

• 2 BC Caesar Augustus is granted the title pater patriae by the Roman Senate.
• 1852 (174 years ago) The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
• 1859 (167 years ago) Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
• 1869 (157 years ago) The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
• 1962 (64 years ago) French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
• 2020 (6 years ago) United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.

Births

• 1788 (238 years ago) Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1850)
• 1914 (112 years ago) William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1997)
• 1915 (111 years ago) Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Charlotte Rampling, English actress
• 1976 (50 years ago) Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
• 1984 (42 years ago) Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 (41 years ago) Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
• 1992 (34 years ago) Neymar, Brazilian footballer

Deaths

• 1881 (145 years ago) Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (born 1795)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (born 1861)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
• 1999 (27 years ago) Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Kirk Douglas, American actor (born 1916)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (born 1929)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani military officer and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (born 1943)

All 351 events, births and deaths of February 5