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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 5
- 100th: 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips."
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Don Cherry in Ontario, Canada; sports commentator (Hockey Night in Canada).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron Junior in Mobile, Alabama, USA; baseball player (record 755 home runs, 1957 National League Most Valuable Player).
- 80th: 1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin, Germany.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Al Kooper; rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat and Tears - "When I Die").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of J R Cobb in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV).
- 80th: 1944 - Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at age 79.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Duff [Michael] "Rose" McKagan; rocker (Velvet Revolver, Guns and Roses - "Sweet Child of Mine").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Laura Linney; actress (John Adams, Frasier, Tales of the City).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Adrienne Johnson; WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers).
- 50th: 1974 - Mats Wermelin, of Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win.
- 50th: 1974 - Maximum speed on German Autobahn reduced to 100 kph.
- 50th: 1974 - U.S. Mariner 10 returns the first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure.
- 40th: 1984 - New Zealand beats England (82 and 93) by an innings in three days.
- 40th: 1984 - Patty Sheehan win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
- 30th: 1994 - Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego debuts on Fox TV.
- 30th: 1994 - Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at age 63.
- 30th: 1994 - Hermann J. Abs, German banker to Hitler and Adenauer, dies at age 92 in Bad Soden, Germany.
- 30th: 1994 - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life in prison, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906).
- 20th: 2004 - John Hench dies, at age 95. Hench worked at The Walt Disney Company for 64 years, the longest of any Disney employee. He worked on animation, and took part in the creation of all Disney parks.
- 15th: 2009 - The Bank of England reduces interest rates to a record low of 1 percent.
- 15th: 2009 - Undefeated world super-middleweight and light-heavyweight boxing champion Joe Calzaghe of the United Kingdom announces his retirement, with a record of 46 wins from 46 fights.
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