Here are some of the notable events that took place on February 5th in history:
- 1831: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek is signed, marking the first removal treaty in the United States where the Choctaw Nation ceded land to the U.S. government.
- 1911: The trial of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s assassin, John Flammang Schrank, begins. Schrank was later found guilty but insane.
- 1932: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from his home in New Jersey.
- 1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes increasing the size of the U.S. Supreme Court, a move that was widely seen as an attempt to increase the number of justices who would support his New Deal policies.
- 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- 1991: The Gulf War begins as a U.S.-led coalition launches a massive air campaign against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
- 1993: The World Trade Center in New York is bombed, killing six people and injuring over a thousand others.
