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Tal día como hoy 5 de febrero
Autor: Fran Arreaza Ortega. Articulista, comunicador, educador y cronista especializado en efemérides de ámbito general. Columnista @elnacionalweb CONTACTO: @franarreaza
TL;DR
- On February 5th in 62 AD, Pompeii was damaged by an earthquake.
- Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Otello' premiered in Milan in 1887.
- Martin Luther King was released from jail on February 5, 1965, after participating in the Selma march.
- US astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed on the Moon in 1971.
- President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate in 2020.
- Notable births include engineer André Citroën (1878) and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (1985).
- Notable deaths include singer Violeta Parra (1967) and actor Christopher Plummer (2021).
- Mexico celebrates the anniversary of its Constitution promulgation on this day.