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Today, February 5, 2026

February 5: National Fart Day: -- A comical holiday celebrated for humorous purposes. There are many similar holidays in the U.S., one on January 7 specifically known as National Pass Gas Day, and others on February 5, March 5, and July 31, including Fart Out Loud Day. Farting is generally considered inappropriate and a violation of the concept of etiquette, but did you know that farting has led to full-on fights and battles in history? For centuries, before etiquette was established, farting was considered normal. Cultures differ across countries, and every nation has its set of norms and traditions, but somehow, a globalized system of etiquette was created with which everyone is familiar. Farting, or the proper term 'flatulence,' is one such example. The Greek historian Herodotus revealed that one man's fart led to the downfall of King Apries of Egypt in 569 B.C. When a mutiny arose within his army, Apries sent General Amasis to quell it. Instead, the rebels crowned Amasis king, causing Apries to send his advisor, Patarbemis, next. Amasis' response was a fart which he told Patarbemis to deliver to Apries. More than a little offended upon receiving this news, Apries ordered Patarbemis' nose and ears to be chopped off, the final straw that pushed the masses to dethrone him in a mob, reinforcing Amasis' reign. Talking about farts leading to major conflicts, according to "The Jewish War" written by Josephus, during a Passover celebration in 44 B.C., a Roman soldier exposed his naked backside, farted, and spoke some inappropriate words to a group of Jews, who reacted by stoning all the soldiers in sight. The soldiers called back up, and before long, a riot had broken, leading to the death of 10,000 people, mostly Jews. Member of British Parliament Henry Ludlow farted during a debate in 1607, and this event has become part of folklore, inspiring poetry such as "The Censure of the Parliament Fart." In 1781, Benjamin Franklin wrote "Fart Proudly," an essay he only ever shared with his friends, including chemist Joseph Priestley, challenging them to invent a potion for good-smelling farts. A particularly hilarious excerpt reads: "_A few stems of asparagus eaten, shall give our urine a disagreeable odor; and a pill of turpentine no bigger than a pea, shall bestow on it the pleasing Smell of Violets. And why should it be thought more impossible, to find means of making a perfume of our wind than of our water?" In the late 1800s, when professional farter Joseph Pujol found out he could inhale air through his rectum and exhale it like a burp, he converted it into entertainment, touring the world to showcase his backside - blowing out candles, playing the flute, smoking cigarettes. Going by 'Le Petomane,' he even outsold Sarah Bernhardt, a famous actress of that time, and was the highest-paid entertainer at the Moulin Rouge. Farting could even have played a part in an event as historical as World War II! Medical reports reveal that Adolf Hitler suffered from uncontrollable farting and cramps caused by his long-term vegetarianism. In 1936, Berlin doctor Theodor Morell prescribed Dr. Koester's Anti-Gas pills, containing poisons Strychnine and Atropine in small amounts. These poisons could cause edginess, insomnia, and emotional dysfunction. By 1941, Hitler was reportedly taking about 150 pills a week. The adverse side effects of this drug weren't discovered until six months before his suicide in 1945. Meanwhile, Bernard Clemmens of London holds the Guinness World Record for the longest butt burp at two minutes, 42 seconds. We simply love fun and quirky holidays. National Fart Day has been observed on February 5 since 2008, as the day to stop suppressing accumulated gas and just relax. It is amazing how farting has so many different holidays dedicated to it. It must mean that the average human secretly craves the freedom to fart as they please despite the established social rules. It is actually unhealthy to hold back a fart because it leads to severe discomfort and pressure in the intestines that can trigger abdominal distension. So release that fart today! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/sandy-becker-1950s60s-new-york-city-old-time-kid-show-195060.html

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February 5: National Weatherperson's Day (Formerly National Weatherman's Day): -- National Weatherperson's Day, also known as National Weatherman's Day, is observed on February 5 primarily in the United States. It recognizes individuals in the fields of meteorology, weather forecasting and broadcast meteorology, as well as volunteer storm spotters and observers. It is observed on the birthday of John Jeffries, one of the United States' first weather observers who took daily measurements starting in 1774, born on February 5th, 1744. Jeffries made the first balloon flight over London in 1784 with the purpose of gathering data for a scientific study of the air at high altitudes. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/natural-disasters-dvd-earthquakes-floods-tornados-hurricanes.html

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February 5: International Clash Day: -- Observed on February 5 unless the date falls on a Saturday or Sunday. It is never celebrated on a weekend, and this year, it takes place on February 5. We owe music's evolution post-1977 to the punk-rock music band the Clash. The band had an extraordinary influence on reggae, pop, disco, punk, rock, rap, and even world music. International Clash Day is celebrated once a year, but messages conveyed through their music will live on forever. There was once a band called London SS that wasn't around for long, but out of the ashes of this largely unknown band came Mick Jones, Tony James of Generation X, Paul Simonon, and many others who would go on to form popular punk-rock bands. However, Jones and Simonon would join Joe Strummer, previously the frontman of the 101'ers, to form the Clash in 1976. Strummer had earlier been inspired by the Sex Pistols to enter the punk-rock genre. Keith Levene was also a founding member before his drug habits kicked in and forced him to leave. Terry Chimes was chosen as the drummer soon after until he dumped his music career to become a chiropractor and was replaced by former jazz drummer Nick Headon. Bernard Rhodes, part of the Sex Pistols' former management team, managed the band for most of their career. Strummer, Jones, Simonon, and Headon would go on to tour most of the world, produce five albums, and is widely regarded as the classic The Clash lineup. In 1982, Topper Headon left the band, leading to 'clashes' among the remaining members and Mick Jones being forced out in 1983. Younger guitarists were taken in and a new lineup of The Clash recorded "Cut the Crap," their last album. They went on a small-scale U.K. tour before disbanding in 1986. International Clash Day started as an organic movement on February 7, 2013, when John Richards, radio host of Washington-based radio station KEXP, played the Clash's songs all day. There is an extremely popular video available on the internet that describes how the movement started and rapidly became a global phenomenon. The holiday will be celebrated for the ninth consecutive year in 2021. Ever since its inception, it has been recognized through official proclamations by several cities including Vancouver, Seattle, and Austin. For 2021, KEXP's playlist of the day will be music by or inspired by the Clash. The day's programming will also feature in-depth conversations about the band's influences. Radio Jockeys from Latin radio partners in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, will delve into the group's ethos. As Joe Strummer, co-founder of the Clash once said, the band is "_anti-fascist, we're anti-violence, we're anti-racist, and we're pro-creative. We're against ignorance." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

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February 5: Adlai Stevenson Day: -- February 5, 1900: #BOTD: #HBD! Adlai Stevenson II, American lawyer, soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. July 14, 1965) is #born Adlai Ewing Stevenson II in Los Angeles, California, in a neighborhood that is now designated as the North University Park Historic District. Noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party, Stevenson served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Federal Alcohol Administration, United States Department of the Navy, and the United States Department of State. He also served on the committee that created the United Nations, and was a member of the initial US delegations to the United Nations. He was the 31st Governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953, and received the Democratic Party' nomination for president in the 1952 and 1956 elections. On October 25, 1962, Stevenson displayed photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles were installed in Cuba. His remarks from that meeting to the Soviet Ambassador to the UN have become emblematic of The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no - dont wait for the translation - yes or no"; when Zorin replied that Stevenson would get his answer "in due course", Steven riposted "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if thats your decision.". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/adlai-stevenson-the-man-from-libertyville-dvd.html

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February 5, 1576: The French-Habsburg Rivalry: The European Wars Of Religion: The French Wars Of Religion: -- King Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. Henry de Bourbon, who eventually became Henry IV (December 13, 1553 - May 14, 1610), was also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He was assassinated in 1610 by Francois Ravaillac, a fanatical Catholic, and was succeeded by his son Louis XIII. On June 9, 1572, upon the death of his Huguenot Protestant mother Queen Joan, the 19-year-old became King of Navarre. At Joan's death, it was arranged for Henry to marry the Catholic Margaret of Valois, daughter of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. The wedding took place in Paris on August 18, 1572 on the parvis of Notre Dame Cathedral. Six days later, on August 24 , the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre began in Paris. Several thousand Protestants who had come to Paris for Henry's wedding were killed, as well as thousands more throughout the country in the days that followed. Henry narrowly escaped death thanks to the help of his wife and his promise to convert to Catholicism. He was forced to live at the court of France, but he escaped in early 1576. On February 5, of that year, he formally abjured Catholicism at Tours and rejoined the Protestant forces in the military conflict. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html

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February 5, 1725: #BOTD: #HBD! James Otis Jr., Founding Father Of The United States, Boston lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer and legislator, early advocate of the Patriot views against British policy that led to the American Revolution, whose catchphrases "Taxation without representation is tyranny" and "a man's house is his castle" became the basic Patriot position (d. June 21, 1768) is #born in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Otis was a fervent opponent of the writs of assistance imposed by Great Britain on the American colonies in the early 1760s that allowed law enforcement officials to search property without cause. Otis was a mentor to Samuel Adams, and his oratorical style inspired a young John Adams. Due to his early influence in events leading up to the Revolution, Otis is recognized as a Founding Father; however, Otis was plagued by mental illness and alcoholism, and by the early 1770s, his erratic behavior had rendered him inconsequential and embarrassing to the cause; as a result, his role in the events leading up to the Revolution have largely been forgotten. One of the most important of these events occurred on June 21, 1768, when James Otis Jr. offended the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court in a characteristically fiery speech to his fellow legislators in Boston. He referred to the British House Of Commons as a gathering of "button-makers, horse jockey gamesters, pensioners, pimps, and whore-masters." The colony's royal governor denounced Otis's tirade as the most "insolent... treasonable declamation that perhaps was ever delivered." Otis's speech in June 1768 was one of many that attacked Parliament for its efforts to squeeze more revenue from the American colonies. He died a decade prior to the Declaration Of Independence when Otis, who is reported to have said to his sister Mercy Otis Warren "My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity that it will be by a flash of lightning", died when he was struck by lightning while watching a thunderstorm from the doorway of a friend's home on May 23, 1783, aged 58. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

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February 5, 1788: #BOTD: #HBD! Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS, English lieutenant, Conservative statesman, twice Home Secretary and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. July 2, 1850) is #born at Chamber Hall, Bury, Lancashire, to the industrialist and parliamentarian Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, one of the richest textile manufacturers of the early Industrial Revolution., and his wife Ellen Yates. Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party. The son of a wealthy textile-manufacturer and politician, Peel was the first prime minister from an industrial business background. He earned a double first in classics and mathematics from Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the House Of Commons in 1809, and became a rising star in the Tory Party. Peel entered the Cabinet as Home Secretary (1822-1827), where he reformed and liberalised the criminal law and created the modern police force, leading to a new type of officer known in tribute to him as "bobbies" and "peelers". After a brief period out of office he returned as Home Secretary under his political mentor the Duke of Wellington (1828-1830), also serving as Leader of the House Of Commons. Initially a supporter of continued legal discrimination against Catholics, Peel reversed himself and supported the repeal of the Test Act (1828) and the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, claiming that "though emancipation was a great danger, civil strife was a greater danger". After being in the Opposition 1830-34, he became Prime Minister in November 1834. Peel issued the Tamworth Manifesto (December 1834), laying down the principles upon which the modern British Conservative Party is based. His first ministry was a minority government, dependent on Whig support and with Peel serving as his own Chancellor of the Exchequer. After only four months, his government collapsed and he served as Leader of the Opposition during Melbourne's second government (1835-1841). Peel became Prime Minister again after the 1841 general election. His second government ruled for five years. He cut tariffs to stimulate trade, replacing the lost revenue with a 3% income tax. He played a central role in making free trade a reality and set up a modern banking system. His government's major legislation included the Mines and Collieries Act 1842, the Income Tax Act 1842, the Factories Act 1844 and the Railway Regulation Act 1844. Peel's government was weakened by anti-Catholic sentiment following the controversial increase in the Maynooth Grant of 1845. After the outbreak of the Great Irish Famine, his decision to join with Whigs and Radicals to repeal the Corn Laws led to his resignation as Prime Minister in 1846. Peel remained an influential MP and leader of the Peelite faction until his death in 1850. Peel often started from a traditional Tory position in opposition to a measure, then reversed his stance and became the leader in supporting liberal legislation. This happened with the Test Act, Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Act, income tax and, most notably, the repeal of the Corn Laws. Historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote: "Peel was in the first rank of 19th century statesmen. He carried Catholic Emancipation; he repealed the Corn Laws; he created the modern Conservative Party on the ruins of the old Toryism." Peel was the first serving British Prime Minister to have his photograph taken. Peel was thrown from his horse while riding on Constitution Hill in London on June 29, 1850. The horse stumbled on top of him, and he died three days later at the age of 62 due to a broken collarbone rupturing his subclavian vessels. His body is buried in the churchyard of St Peter Church, Drayton Bassett, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. Inside the church is a memorial tablet which reads "In Memory of / The Rt Hon Sir Robert Peel, Bart. / to whome the People / have raised Monuments /in many places. / His Children / erect this in the place / where his body / has been buried". His Peelite followers, led by Lord Aberdeen and William Gladstone, went on to fuse with the Whigs as the Liberal Party. Sir Robert Peel is featured on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

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Today, February 5, 2026

February 5, 1848: #BOTD: Belle Starr, American horse thief and outlaw associated with the James-Younger Gang and other outlaws, who gained national notoriety after her violent death (d. February 3, 1889) is #born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri. She married to Jim Reed (1845-1874), a member of the notorious Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War, along with the James brothers (Jesse and Frank James) and the Youngers (Jim, John, Bob and Cole). Reed was involved with several criminal gangs including the James-Younger Gang. In April 1874 despite lack of evidence a warrant was issued for her arrest for a stagecoach robbery by her husband and others. Reed was killed in August of that year in Paris, Texas, where he had settled down with his family. Belle was allegedly briefly married for three weeks to Charles Younger, uncle of Cole Younger in 1878, but this is not substantiated by any evidence. There are numerous claims that Belle's daughter Pearl Reed was actually Pearl Younger, but in Cole Younger's autobiography (quoted in Glen Shirley's "Belle Starr and her times"), he discounted that. In 1880, she married a Cherokee man named Sam Starr (whose last name "Starr" is the inspiration for Richard Starkey's stage name "Ringo Starr") and settled with the Starr family in the Indian Territory. There, she learned ways of organizing, planning and fencing for the rustlers, horse thieves and bootleggers, as well as harboring them from the law. Belle's illegal enterprises proved lucrative enough for her to employ bribery to free her colleagues from the law whenever they were caught. In 1883, Belle and Sam were arrested by Bass Reeves, charged with horse theft and tried before "The Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker in Fort Smith, Arkansas; the prosecutor was United States Attorney W.H.H. Clayton. She was found guilty and served nine months at the Detroit House of Corrections in Detroit, Michigan. Belle proved to be a model prisoner and, during her time in jail, she won the respect of the prison matron. In contrast, Sam was incorrigible and assigned to hard labor. In a contradictory account after her arrest by the Marshall, "Belle proved to be a loud and unruly prisoner." In 1886, she eluded conviction on another theft charge, but, on December 17, Sam Starr was involved in a gunfight with his cousin Law Officer Frank West. Both men were killed, and Belle's life as an outlaw queen-and what had been the happiest relationship of her life-abruptly ended with her husband's death. By her marriage to Sam Starr, she was an aunt to Henry Starr, an American criminal of the wild west and an American actor of the silent film era. For the last 2+ years of her life, gossips and scandal sheets linked her to a series of men with colorful names, including Jack Spaniard, Jim French and Blue Duck, after which, she married a relative of Sam Starr, Jim July, who later became Jim July Starr, who was some 15 years younger than she was. Her story was popularized by Richard K. Fox-editor and publisher of the National Police Gazette-and she later became a popular character in television and movies. Belle Starr was fatally shot in a case that is still officially unsolved. Two days before her 41st birthday, Belle was killed. According to one story, she was riding home from a neighbor's house when she was ambushed. After she fell off her horse, she was shot again to make sure she was dead. Her death resulted from shotgun wounds to the back and neck and in the shoulder and face. Legend says she was shot with her own double-barrel shotgun. According to another story told by Pistol Pete (Frank Eaton), her death was due to different circumstances. She had been attending a dance. Frank Eaton had been the last person to dance with Belle Starr when Edgar J. Watson, one of her sharecroppers and clearly intoxicated, had asked to dance with her. When Belle Starr declined, he later followed her. When she stopped to give her horse a drink at a creek on the way home, he shot and killed her. According to Frank Eaton, Watson was tried, convicted, and executed by hanging for the murder. According to still another story, there were no witnesses and that no one ever was convicted of the murder. Suspects with apparent motive included her new husband and both of her children as well as Edgar Watson, because he was afraid she was going to turn him in to the authorities as an escaped murderer from Florida with a price on his head. Watson, who was killed in 1910, was tried for her murder, but was acquitted, and the ambush has entered Western lore as "unsolved". And according to still another story, one source suggests her son, whom she had allegedly beaten for mistreating her beloved horse, may have been her killer. She is buried at the Belle Star Burial Site in Porum, Oklahoma. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jesse-james-amp-the-jamesyounger-gang-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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February 5, 1852: Grand Openings: -- The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. Now known as The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaz), it is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the second largest art museum in the world by gallery space. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on December 7, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852. The Western European Art collection includes European paintings, sculpture, and applied art from the 13th to the 20th centuries. It is displayed, in about 120 rooms, on the first and second floor of the four main buildings. Drawings and prints are displayed in temporary exhibitions. Since 1940, the Egyptian collection, dating back to 1852 and including the former Castiglione Collection, has occupied a large hall on the ground floor in the eastern part of the Winter Palace. The collection of classical antiquities occupies most of the ground floor of the Old and New Hermitage buildings. On the ground floor in the western wing of the Winter Palace the collections of prehistoric artifacts and the culture and art of the Caucasus are located. Four small rooms on the ground floor, enclosed in the middle of the New Hermitage between the room displaying Classical Antiquities, comprise the first treasure gallery, featuring western jewellery from the 4th millennium BC to the early 20th century AD. The Italian Renaissance galleries continues in the eastern wing of the New Hermitage with paintings, sculpture, majolica and tapestry from Italy of the 15th-16th centuries, including Conestabile Madonna and Madonna with Beardless St. Joseph by Raphael. They feature works of Italian Renaissance artists, including Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, as well as Benois Madonna and Madonna Litta attributed to Leonardo da Vinci or his school. The first floor of New Hermitage contains three large interior spaces in the center of the museum complex that feature Italian and Spanish canvases of the 16th-18th centuries, including Veronese, Giambattista Pittoni, Tintoretto, Velazquez and Murillo. The Knights' Hall, a large room in the eastern part of the New Hermitage originally designed in the Greek revival style for the display of coins, now hosts a collection of Western European arms and armour from the 15th-17th centuries, part of the Hermitage Arsenal collection. The rooms and galleries along the southern facade and in the western wing of the New Hermitage are now entirely devoted to Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting of the 17th century, including the large collections of Van Dyck, Rubens and Rembrandt. They also contain several paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder (Velvet period), Frans Snyders (for example, The Fish Market), Gerard ter Borch, Paulus Potter, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van Goyen, Ferdinand Bol and Gerard van Honthorst. The first floor rooms on the southern facade of the Winter Palace are occupied by the collections of German fine art of the 16th century and French fine art of the 15th-18th centuries, including paintings by Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau. The collections of French decorative and applied art from the 17th-18th centuries and British applied and fine art from the 16th-19th century, including Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, are on display in nearby rooms facing the courtyard. This area also holds paintings by German artists, including Hans Wertinger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Barthel Bruyn the Elder, Caspar David Friedrich (Moonrise by the Sea), Anton Mengs, Hans Thoma, Anselm Feuerbach, Franz Stuck (Two Men Fighting Over a Woman) and Heinrich Campendonk as well as paintings by Swiss painters Angelica Kauffman, Alexandre Calame, Arnold Bocklin and Ferdinand Hodler. The richly decorated interiors of the first floor of the Winter Palace on its eastern, northern and western sides are part of the Russian culture collection and host the exhibitions of Russian art from the 11th-19th centuries. Temporary exhibitions are usually held in the Nicholas Hall. French Neoclassical, Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, including works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin, are displayed on the fourth floor of the Eastern Wing of the General Staff Building. Also displayed are paintings by Camille Pissarro (Boulevard Montmartre, Paris), Paul Cezanne (Mount Sainte-Victoire), Alfred Sisley, Henri Morel, and Degas. Modern art is displayed in the General Staff Building (Saint Petersburg). It features Matisse, Derain and other fauvists, Picasso, Malevich, Petrocelli, Kandinsky, Giacomo Manzu, Giorgio Morandi and Rockwell Kent. A large room is devoted to the German Romantic art of the 19th century, including several paintings by Caspar David Friedrich. The second floor of the Western wing features collections of the Oriental art (from China, India, Mongolia, Tibet, Central Asia, Byzantium and Near East). The Art Newspaper ranked the museum 6th in their list of the most visited art museums, with 1,649,443 visitors in 2021. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one-third of them). The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since July 1992, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky. Of the six buildings in the main museum complex, five - the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage, and Hermitage Theatre - are all open to the public. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. However, entrance is free of charge the third Thursday of every month for all visitors, and free daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. 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February 5, 1913: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: The History Of Naval Aviation: -- Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history when, a few days after the Greek naval victory at Lemnos, First Lieutenant Moutoussis and Ensign Moraitinis were ordered to spot the position of the retreated Ottoman fleet in the Dardanelles with their seaplane, a converted Maurice Farman MF.7. When they reached the Nara naval base they noted down the Turkish ships and installations. Additionally, before they left the area they dropped four bombs, but without inflicting any serious damage or casualties. During the return flight an engine failure forced them down in the Aegean Sea and they were finally collected by the crew of the nearby Greek destroyer Velos. Being the first naval-air operation in military history, this operation was widely commented upon in the press, both Greek and international. Moutoussis also participated in the Macedonian front of World War I as well as in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), where he was positioned in Proussa Air Field (in modern Bursa). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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February 5, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and visual artist (d. August 2, 1997) is #born William Seward Burroughs II into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the inventor and founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs I, and nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. William S. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. Burroughs created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual art works, including his celebrated 'Gunshot Paintings'. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence, but did not begin publicizing his writing until his thirties. He left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studied English, and anthropology as a postgraduate, and later attended medical school in Vienna. In 1942 Burroughs enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve during World War II, but was turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and Navy, after which he picked up the drug addiction that affected him for the rest of his life, while working a variety of jobs. In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and out of their mutual influence grew the foundation of the Beat Generation, which was later a defining influence on the 1960s counterculture. Much of Burroughs' work is semiautobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris and Tangier in Morocco, as well as from his travels in the South American Amazon. His work also features frequent mystical, occult or otherwise magical themes - a constant preoccupation for Burroughs, both in fiction and in real life. Burroughs accidentally killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City with a pistol during a drunken "William Tell" game; he was consequently convicted of manslaughter. Burroughs found success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), but he is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959), a highly controversial work that was the subject of a court case after it was challenged as being in violation of the U.S. sodomy laws. With Brion Gysin, he also popularized the literary cut-up technique in works such as The Nova Trilogy (1961-1964). In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Jack Kerouac called Burroughs the "greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift", a reputation he owes to his "lifelong subversion" of the moral, political, and economic systems of modern American society, articulated in often darkly humorous sardonicism. J. G. Ballard considered Burroughs to be "the most important writer to emerge since the Second World War", while Norman Mailer declared him "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius". Burroughs created visual art throughout his lifetime, but never exhibited it until 1987, after the death of his friend and collaborator Brion Gysin. For the next and last 10 years of his life, he presented his paintings and drawings at museums and galleries worldwide. Burroughs had one child, William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947-1981), with his second wife Joan Vollmer. William Burroughs died on August 2, 1997 at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, after suffering a heart attack. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/kerouac-the-movie-dvd-1985-jack-kerouac-documentary-1985.html

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February 5, 1917: 20th Century Revolutions: The Mexican Revolution: The Constitution Of Mexico (The Political Constitution Of The United Mexican States): -- The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The Constitution of Mexico was drafted in Santiago de Queretaro, in the State of Queretaro, by a constitutional convention, during the Mexican Revolution. It was approved by the Constitutional Congress on 5 February 1917. It is the successor to the Constitution of 1857, and earlier Mexican constitutions. The current Constitution of 1917 is the first such document in the world to set out social rights, serving as a model for the Weimar Constitution of 1919 and the Russian Constitution of 1918. Some of the most important provisions are Articles 3, 27, and 123; these display profound changes in Mexican political philosophy that helped frame the political and social backdrop for Mexico in the twentieth century. Aimed at restricting the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, Article 3 established the basis for a free, mandatory, and secular education; Article 27 laid the foundation for land reforms; and Article 123 was designed to empower the labor sector, which had emerged in the late nineteenth century and which supported the winning faction of the Mexican Revolution. Constitution Day is one of Mexico's annual Fiestas Patrias (public holidays), commemorating the promulgation of the Constitution. Although the official anniversary is on 5 February, the holiday takes place on the first Monday of February regardless of the date. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ragged-revolution-mexican-revolt-191019101920.html

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February 5, 1918 (Old Style: January 26, 1918): #BOTD: Nicolae Ceausescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and hence the second and last Communist leader of Romania, Romania's head of state from 1967, President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently 1st President of Romania until his overthrow and execution during the Romanian Revolution (d. December 25, 1989) is #born in the small village of Scornicesti, Olt County, Romania. Upon his rise to power, he eased press censorship and openly condemned the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in his speech on 21 August 1968, which resulted in a surge in popularity. The resulting period of stability was very brief, however; his government very soon became severely repressive and authoritarian, and was considered the most Stalinist in Eastern Europe. His secret police, the Securitate, was responsible for mass surveillance as well as severe repression and human rights abuses within the country, and he suppressed and controlled the media and press, implementing methods that were among the harshest, most restrictive and brutal in the world. Economic mismanagement due to failed oil ventures during the 1970s led to skyrocketing foreign debts for Romania; in 1982, he exported much of the country's agricultural and industrial production in an effort to repay them. The shortages that followed drastically lowered living standards, leading to heavy rationing of food, water, oil, heat, electricity, medicine, and other necessities. His cult of personality experienced unprecedented elevation, followed by extensive nepotism and the intense deterioration of foreign relations, even with the Soviet Union. As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timi?oara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceausescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country. The demonstrations, which reached Bucharest, became known as the Romanian Revolution - the only violent upheaval of a communist government in the turn of the Revolutions of 1989. Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, fled the capital in a helicopter, but were captured by the armed forces after the armed forces changed sides. On 25 December, after being tried and convicted of economic sabotage and genocide,they were immediately executed by firing squad, and Ceausescu was succeeded as President by Ion Iliescu, who had played a major part in the revolution. Capital punishment was abolished shortly thereafter. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-ceausescu-dvd.html

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February 5, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Cornelia Fort, United States aviator who became famous for being part of three aviation-related events (d. March 21, 1943) is #born Cornelia Clark Fort to a wealthy and prominent Nashville, Tennessee, family; her father, Rufus Elijah Fort, was a founder of National Life and Accident Insurance Company. The first occurred while conducting a civilian training flight at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 when she was the first United States pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. She and her student narrowly escaped a mid-air collision with the Japanese aircraft and a strafing attack after making an emergency landing. The second occurred the following year, when Fort became the second member of what was to become the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASP. Cornelia was working as a WASP ferry pilot on 21 March 1943 when she became the first female pilot in American history to die on active duty. The third was her becoming the first female pilot to in die on active duty when she crashes while ferrying a Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft with a group of male pilots when one of the pilots, while showing off, flew too close to Fort's plane and his landing gear collided with the wing of her plane, breaking part of it off. The plane went into a nose-dive and crashed ten miles south of Merkel, Texas in Mulberry Canyon, Texas, killing her. She is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Cornelia Fort was portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! by actress Jeff Donnell. The Cornelia Fort Airpark in East Nashville is named after her. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women-of-courage-the-wasp-aviators-of-wwii-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv5.html

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February 5, 1919: Film (Motion Pictures): The History Of The Film Industry (The History Of The Motion Picture Industry): Film Studios (Movie Studios, Studios): United Artists: -- In reaction to the established Hollywood producers and distributors who were tightening their control over actor salaries and creative decisions (a process that ultimately evolved into the studio system), United Artists, a motion picture production joint venture company, is founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith to giving each of them complete control over their own films. In 1918 Charlie Chaplin could not get his parent company First National Pictures to increase his production budget in 1918 despite being one of their top producers. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks had their own contracts, with First National and Famous Players-Lasky respectively, but these were due to run out with no clear offers forthcoming. Sydney Chaplin, brother and business manager for Charlie, deduced something was going wrong, and contacted Pickford and Fairbanks. The trio hired a private detective to find out. The detective discovered a plan to merge all production companies and to lock in "exhibition companies" into a series of five year contracts. Pickford, Chaplin, Fairbanks, and Griffith incorporated United Artists as a joint venture company on February 5, 1919. Each held a 25 percent stake in the preferred shares and a 20 percent stake in the common shares of the joint venture, with the remaining 20 percent of common shares held by lawyer and advisor William Gibbs McAdoo. The idea for the venture originated with Fairbanks, Chaplin, Pickford and cowboy star William S. Hart a year earlier. Already Hollywood veterans, the four stars talked of forming their own company to better control their own work. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

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February 5, 1919: #BOTD: Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, founder of the political party PASOK which he led from 1974 to 1996, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (d. June 23, 1996) is #born Andreas Georgiou Papandreou in Chios, Greece, he served three terms as the 3rd and 8th prime minister of Greece. Papandreou's party win in the 1981 election was a milestone in the political history of Greece, since it was the first time that the elected government had a predominantly socialist political program. The achievements of his first two governments include the official recognition of the leftist and communist resistance groups of the Greek Resistance (EAM/ELAS) against the Axis occupation, the establishment of the National Health System and the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP), the passage of Law 1264/1982 which secured the right to strike and greatly improved the rights of workers, the constitutional amendment of 1985-1986 which strengthened parliamentarism and reduced the powers of the indirectly-elected president, the conduct of an assertive and independent Greek foreign policy, the expansion in the power of local governments, many progressive reforms in Greek law and the granting of permission to the refugees of the Greek Civil War, of Greek ethnicity, to return home in Greece. The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which he founded and led, was the first non-communist political party in Greek history with a mass-based organization, introducing an unprecedented level of political and social participation in Greek society. In a poll conducted by Kathimerini in 2007, 48% of those polled called Papandreou the "most important Greek Prime Minister". In the same poll, the first four years of Papandreou's government after Metapolitefsi were voted as the best government Greece ever had. His father, Georgios Papandreou, and his son, George Papandreou have both also served as Prime Ministers of Greece. Andreas Papandreou died in Athens, Greece, aged 77. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/greek-fire-ancient-greece-in-the-modern-era-tv-documentary-series.html

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February 5, 1924: The History Of Broadcasting: International Broadcasting: The History Of Radio Broadcasting: International Radio Broadcasting: Time Signal Radio Stations: Greenwich Time Signal (GTS, The Pips): -- The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal (GTS)., popularly known as "The Pips", a series of six short tones (or "pips") broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations. The pips were introduced in 1924 and have been generated by the BBC since 1990 to mark the precise start of each hour. Their utility in calibration is diminishing as digital broadcasting entails time lags. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/bbc-engineering-society-the-early-days-of-broadcasting-mp3-c3.html

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February 5, 1939: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Spanish Civil War: 1938-1939 In The Spanish Civil War: -- Generalisimo Francisco Franco, after his successful military overthrow of the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War, becomes the 68th "Caudillo de Espana" (Spanish: Leader of Spain), in parallel to the German and Italian equivalents of the same period: Fuhrer and Duce. A caudillo (From Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalist leader wielding military and political power. There is no precise definition of caudillo, which is often used interchangeably with "dictator" and "strongman." The term is historically associated with Spain, and with Spanish America after virtually all of that region won independence in the early nineteenth century. The roots of caudillismo may be tied to the framework of rule in medieval and early modern Spain during the Reconquest from the Moors. Spanish conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro exhibit characteristics of the caudillo, being successful military leaders, having mutual reliance of the leader and their supporters, and rewarding them for their loyalty. During the colonial era, the Spanish crown asserted its power and established a plethora of bureaucratic institutions that prevented such personalist rule. Historian John Lynch argues that the rise of caudillos in Spanish America is rooted not in the distant Spanish past but in the immediate context of the Spanish American wars of independence. Those wars threw off colonial rule and left a power vacuum in the early nineteenth century. Caudillos were very influential in the history of Spanish America and have a legacy that has influenced political movements in the modern era. The term is often used pejoratively by critics of a regime; however, Spain's Francisco Franco proudly took the title as his own. Spanish censors during his rule attacked publishers who applied the term to Hispanic American strongmen. Caudillos' exercise of power is a form considered authoritarian. Most societies have had personalist leaders at times, but Hispanic America has had many more, the majority of whom were not self-described caudillos. However, scholars have applied the term to a variety of Hispanic American leaders. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/francisco-franco-dvd-general-caudillo-spanish-civil-war.html

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February 5, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Barrett Strong, African American singer and songwriter (d. January 29, 2023) is #born Barrett Strong Jr. in West Point, Mississippi. Strong was the first artist to record a hit for Motown, "Money (That's What I Want)". Strong was among the first artists signed to Berry Gordy's fledgling label, Tamla Records, originally releasing "Money" on Tamla, but then leased to Motown's Anna label as it was getting airplay, and it was on the Anna label that it was a hit. "Money" reached No. 2 US R & B in 1960, which sold over one million copies, was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA, and was later recorded by a number of acts, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Kingsmen, Richard Wylie and His Band, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Searchers, the Flying Lizards, the Sonics and Buddy Guy, among others. He was noted for his work as a songwriter, particularly in association with producer Norman Whitfield, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by both Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips; "War" by Edwin Starr; "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" by Paul Young; "Smiling Faces Sometimes" by the Undisputed Truth; and the long line of "psychedelic soul" records by the Temptations, including "Cloud Nine", "I Can't Get Next to You", "Psychedelic Shack", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", amongst others. Strong received a Grammy Award for Best R & B Song in 1973 for "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone". Strong and Whitfield also co-wrote the ballad "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)", a 1971 Billboard No. 1 that also marked the last Temptations single to feature original members Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams. After Motown moved its operations base from Detroit, Michigan, to Los Angeles, California, Strong left the label and resumed his singing career. He signed with Epic in 1972. Strong left the label for Capitol Records, where he recorded two albums in the 1970s. In the 1980s, Strong recorded "Rock It Easy" on an independent label, and wrote "You Can Depend on Me", which appeared on their The Second Time album (1988). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004. Strong has re-released his latest album, Stronghold II, which he wrote and composed in collaboration with rocker/songwriter Eliza Neals in 2008, in digital format only. In 2010, Strong appeared in "Misery", his first music video in his fifty years of recording music, co-produced by Eliza Neals and Martin "Tino" Gross with Strong at the helm. Barrett Strong died in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 81. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan (Motown, appropriately). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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February 5, 1958: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Aviation Incidents And Accidents: Nuclear Weapons Incidents And Accidents: The 1958 Tybee Island Mid-Air Collision: -- A 7,600-pound Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, known as the Tybee Bomb, is lost in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia when, during a practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the bomb. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island. It was never recovered. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/nuclear-war-films-1-dvd-atomic-weapons-orientation-film1.html

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February 5, 1962: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Decolonisation Of Africa: The Algerian War (The Algerian Revolution, The Algerian War Of Independence): -- French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. Upon becoming president in 1959, de Gaulle was faced with the urgent task of finding a way to bring to an end the bloody and divisive war in Algeria. His intentions were obscure. He had immediately visited Algeria and declared "I have understood you", and each competing interest over the issue of Algerian independence had wished to believe it was them that he had understood. The settlers, known as the "Pied-Noir", or "Black-Foot", assumed he supported them, and would be stunned when he did not. In Paris, the left wanted independence for Algeria. de Gaulle A pied-noir revolt in 1960 failed, while another attempted coup failed in April 1961. French voters approved his course in a 1961 referendum on Algerian self-determination. De Gaulle arranged a cease-fire in Algeria with the March 1962 Evian Accords, legitimated by another referendum a month later. It gave victory by the FLN, which came to power and declared independence. The long crisis was over. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/de-gaulle-and-france-3-part-tv-documentary-series-2-disc-dvd-s32.html

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February 5, 1994: Assassinations Of Human Rights Activists: Assassinations Of American Civil Rights Activists: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: The Assassination Of Medgar Evers: -- Byron De La Beckwith, at long last, and after three trials, convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Byron De La Beckwith, Sr. (November 9, 1920 - January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman from Greenwood, Mississippi, who assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on June 12, 1963. Two trials in 1964 on this charge resulted in hung juries. In 1994 he was tried by the state in a new trial based on new evidence; he was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. Seven years after being convicted of killing Evers, De La Beckwith died in prison in 2001 at the age of 80. Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, to end segregation of public facilities, and to expand opportunities for African Americans, including enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated by a white supremacist and Klansman. A World War II veteran and college graduate, Evers became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers challenged the segregation of the state-supported public University of Mississippi, applying to law school there. He also worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society. Evers was murdered in 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council. This group was formed in 1954 to resist the integration of schools and civil rights activism. As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests; his life and these events inspired numerous works of art, music, and film. All-white juries failed to reach verdicts in the first two trials of Beckwith in the 1960s. He was convicted in 1994 in a new state trial based on new evidence. Medgar's widow Myrlie Evers became a noted activist in her own right, serving as national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers was the first African American mayor elected in Mississippi in the post-Reconstruction era when he won in 1969 in Fayette. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/open-mind-race-relations-in-crisis-dvd-june-12-1963-mal121963.html

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February 5, 1924: The History Of Broadcasting: International Broadcasting: The History Of Radio Broadcasting: International Radio Broadcasting: Time Signal Radio Stations: Greenwich Time Signal (GTS, The Pips): -- The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal (GTS)., popularly known as "The Pips", a series of six short tones (or "pips") broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations. The pips were introduced in 1924 and have been generated by the BBC since 1990 to mark the precise start of each hour. Their utility in calibration is diminishing as digital broadcasting entails time lags. https://store.earthstation1.com/bbc-engineering-society-the-early-days-of-broadcasting-mp3-c3.html

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February 5: National Shower With A Friend Day: -- Tired of the polar vortex? Heat things up on National Shower With A Friend Day. Note - this day started innocently enough -when a Colorado company called New Wave Enviro encouraged people to take showers with a "friend," meaning its all-new shower filter. Their reasoning? According to the company: "Your body absorbs more chlorine through the skin and lungs while showering than while drinking tap water." And who are we to disagree? National Shower With A Friend Day is a tongue-in-cheek way of educating people about the benefits of filtered, chlorine-free water, and today you are free to celebrate however you (and a friend) would like. Winter is the coldest and loneliest season of the year. With dwindling daylight and Valentine's Day at its heart, February can often leave people feeling dejected and somber. The day injects a bit of humor into the season while also serving to educate people on the benefits of showering in fresh, filtered water, and the effects of chlorine. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-best-of-the-sctv-network-19881988.html

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February 5: Disaster Day: -- A day to raise awareness about the different types of disasters that can and have occurred and the implications they have on the world and its beings. Disaster Day also highlights the importance of disaster management and the training that is necessary to tackle it. A disaster is a major event that occurs over a short or long period and results in widespread human, material, an economic, or environmental loss that exceeds the affected community's or society's ability to deal with using its own resources. Disasters, regardless of the environment in which they occur, tend to cause changes in government and public life. It is impossible to determine a date of origin for disasters, but it is safe to say that disasters have existed in some shape or form since the beginning of time. Disasters are commonly divided into two broad categories - natural disasters and man-made disasters. A natural disaster is a natural process or occurrence that can result in death, injury, or other health consequences, as well as property destruction, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, and environmental harm. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, tsunamis, cyclones, wildfires, and pandemics kill thousands of people each year and destroy billions of dollars in habitat and property. Unfortunately, disasters have become more frequent and severe as a result of the rapid world population growth and growing concentration in dangerous settings. Non-engineered constructions make disaster-prone places more vulnerable due to the tropical temperature, unstable landforms, and deforestation. Man-made disasters are the result of technical or human-caused risks. War, civil unrest, stampedes, fires, transportation accidents, industrial accidents, conflicts, oil spills, terrorist attacks, and nuclear explosions/radiation are just a few examples. Some argue that to an extent, all disasters are man-made as they are caused by humans' failure to implement effective emergency management systems. For instance, while drought, flood, fire, or illness could cause famine locally, in modern times there is enough food available globally. The chronic localized shortages are usually the result of government mismanagement, violent conflict, or an economic system that fails to deliver food where it is needed. Similarly, earthquakes are mostly dangerous because of human-made buildings and dams; and avoiding tsunamis and landslides caused by earthquakes therefore largely depends on location. Each disaster has its causes, consequences, and preventative methods. They also call for different sets of responses to them. Disaster Day, observed every year on February 5, shines a light on these disasters and encourages increased awareness and preparedness for the same. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-the-documentaries-dvd-2-disc2.html

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February 5: Kashmir Day: -- Observed by the people in Pakistan and Kashmir who have been fighting for their freedom for more than 70 years. This day is also celebrated in honor of the Kashmiris who have lost their lives in the fight for freedom. The valley of Kashmir is known as 'heaven on earth.' Kashmir is one of the most popular tourist spots in Pakistan - it possesses exceptional beauty and is a place that must be visited at least once in your lifetime. Unfortunately, it has been riddled with territorial conflict since 1947. From the partition of the subcontinent, the freedom of Kashmir has been an issue of conflict between India and Pakistan. The conflict between the two countries increases with every passing year. Kashmir Solidarity Day is observed across Pakistan to portray solidarity with the Kashmiri people. Many freedom fighters have lost their loved ones in their struggle for a separate identity on the world's map and Pakistan supports Kashmir in its primary right to self-determination. Kashmir Solidarity Day was established by the opposition leader of Pakistan at the time, Nawaz Sharif, in 1990. Sharif called for a strike throughout Pakistan as a protest against the Indian army, which held some parts of Kashmir. He appealed to the nation to pray for Kashmir's freedom. The Kashmir issue has been raised by Pakistan on a global level, but international leaders and the United Nations have not been successful in solving the problem. However, the people of Pakistan continue to support the people of Kashmir in their fight towards their goal by celebrating Kashmir Solidarity Day in February every year. https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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February 5: The Feast Of St. Agatha (International): -- National Primrose Day (United Kingdom): -- A floral holiday that is loved and celebrated by many people in the U.K. The holiday is also dedicated to a virgin martyr named St. Agatha. The Primrose has several names. It can be called 'English Primrose', 'Common Primrose', or 'Primula vulgaris'. It is a flowering herb that grows low on the ground. It is usually found in Southern and Western Europe which includes Britain. The primrose gets its name from the Latin words 'prima rosa' which means 'first rose.' The flower belongs to the primula family. There are about 1,000 varieties. The primrose flower that can be seen beautifying banks, hedgerows, and gardens, is called the 'Common Primrose'. The plant has pretty soft yellow flowers. The flowers rise on hairy stems that have tough leathery leaves. Primroses have been known to bloom as early as December in some countries. In southern and southwestern counties, the plant can continue to flower until late May. The flower serves as an important source of nectar for spring butterflies. Primroses mark the transition from winter to spring. Primroses have significance in folklore. They are symbols of eternal love in the Irish tradition. They are also supposed to prevent fairies from entering when they are festooning a doorway. Primroses are significant in English folklore as well. They are usually used as a burial garland for young women who have died during the spring. The primrose's pale colors denote purity. The British conservation charity 'Plantlife' led a nationwide campaign to identify and designate a native wildflower for each county in the year 2002. Devon county chose the primrose flower as its official county flower. This makes National Primrose Day a bit more special for the lovely people of Devon county. There is a bronze statue of Lord Beaconsfield in Parliament Square that was decorated with primroses on the anniversary of his death every year. https://store.earthstation1.com/disraeli-portait-of-a-romantic-tv-series-dvd-set-4-disc4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy With Michael Wood World History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1590: #DOTD: #RIP: Bernardino de Sahagun, Spanish-born Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer whose extraordinary work documenting indigenous worldview and culture has earned him the title as "the first anthropologist", compiler of the Historia General De Las Cosas De La Nueva Espana (Spanish: General History Of The Things Of New Spain) whose most famous extant manuscript is The Florentine Codex, a history of the Aztecs in Mexico, consisting of 2,400 pages organized into twelve books, with approximately 2,500 illustrations drawn by native artists using both native and European techniques, a work declared a World Heritage by UNESCO in 2015 (b. c. 1499) #dies aged 90-91 in Tlatelolco, New Spain (today's Mexico City, Mexico). He is buried at the Templo Y Ex-Convento De San Francisco (Temple And Former Convent Of San Francisco) in Centro, Cuauhtemoc Borough, Mexico. Bernardino de Sahagun OFM was born born Bernardino de Rivera (Ribera, Ribeira) in Sahagun, Spain. He participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain (now Mexico). He journeyed to New Spain in 1529, where he learned Nahuatl and spent more than 50 years in the study of Aztec beliefs, culture and history. Though he was primarily devoted to his missionary task, he also contributed to the description of Nahuatl, the imperial language of the Aztec Empire. He translated the Psalms, the Gospels, and a catechism into Nahuatl. The alphabetic text of The Florentine Codex is bilingual in Spanish and Nahuatl on opposing folios, and the pictorials should be considered due to their content a third kind of text. It documents the culture, religious cosmology (worldview), ritual practices, society, economics, and history of the Aztec people, and in Book 12 gives an account of the conquest of the Aztec Empire from the Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco point of view. In the process of putting together the Historia general, Sahagun pioneered new methods for gathering ethnographic information and validating its accuracy. The Historia General has been called "one of the most remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed." https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Douglas MacArthur Radio Broadcasts & Speeches MP3 CD, Download, USB
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1945: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Philippines Campaign (1944-1945) (The Philippines Campaign, The Battle Of The Philippines, The Second Philippines Campaign, The Liberation Of The Philippines [Operation Musketeer I, Operation Musketeer II, Operation Musketeer III): The Battle Of Manila (1945) (The Battle Of Manila): -- General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. On October 20, 1944, MacArthur fulfilled his promise "I shall return" to the Philippines when he commanded an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War. The Battle Of Manila (Filipino: Labanan Sa Maynila; Japanese: Manira No Tatakai; February 3 - March 3, 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944-45, during the Second World War. It was fought by forces from both the United States and the Philippines against Japanese troops in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. The month-long battle, which resulted in the death of over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city, was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater. Japanese forces committed mass murder against Filipino civilians during the battle. Along with massive loss of life, the battle also destroyed architectural and cultural heritage dating back to the city's founding, and Manila became one of the most devastated capital cities during the entire war, alongside Berlin and Warsaw. The battle ended the almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines (1942-1945). The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest. It is the last of the many battles fought within Manila's history. https://store.earthstation1.com/general-douglas-macarthur-mp3-cd-speeches-and-broadcast3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of Power: Gamal Abdel Nasser DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1958: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Arab Nationalism: The United Arab Republic (UAR): -- President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. Nasser's popularity in Egypt and the Arab world skyrocketed after his nationalization of the Suez Canal and his political victory in the subsequent Suez Crisis. Calls for pan-Arab unity under his leadership increased, culminating with the formation of the United Arab Republic with Syria (1958-1961), a Middle East sovereign state from 1958 to 1971. It was initially a political union between Egypt (including the occupied Gaza Strip) and Syria from 1958 until Syria seceded from the union after the 1961 Syrian coup d'Etat, leaving a rump state. Egypt continued to be known officially as the United Arab Republic until 1971. The republic was led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The UAR was a member of the United Arab States, a loose confederation with the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, which was dissolved in 1961. https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-power-gamal-abdel-nasser-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer Space Films 5: Apollo Moon Exploration Films DVD, Download, USB
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1971: Lunar Landings: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Missions To The Moon: Project Apollo: Apollo 14: -- Astronaut Edgar Mitchell pilots Apollo 14's Lunar Lander Antares under the command of Astronaut Alan Shepard to a landing on the surface of the Moon at The Fra Mauro Formation (also known as The Fra Mauro Highlands) at 09:18:11 UTC. On January 31, Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lifted off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions," targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or Moonwalks. Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell launched on their nine-day mission on January 31, 1971 at 4:04:02 p.m. local time after a 40-minute, 2 second delay due to launch site weather restrictions, the first such delay in the Apollo program. Shepard and Mitchell made their lunar landing on February 5 in the Fra Mauro formation - originally the target of the aborted Apollo 13 mission. During the two lunar EVAs, 42.80 kilograms (94.35 lb) of Moon rocks were collected, and several scientific experiments were performed. Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface with a makeshift club he had brought with him. Shepard and Mitchell spent 33 1/2 hours on the Moon, with almost 9 1/2 hours of EVA. In the aftermath of Apollo 13, several modifications had been made to the Service Module electrical power system to prevent a repeat of that accident, including a redesign of the oxygen tanks and the addition of a third tank. While Shepard and Mitchell were on the surface, Roosa remained in lunar orbit aboard the Command/Service Module Kitty Hawk, performing scientific experiments and photographing the Moon, including the landing site of the future Apollo 16 mission. He took several hundred seeds on the mission, many of which were germinated on return, resulting in the so-called Moon trees. Shepard, Roosa, and Mitchell splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on February 9. https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-5-apollo-moon-exploration-dv5.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock & Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Al Kooper, prolific American songwriter, record producer and studio musician throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s including playing organ on the Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn and piano on the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and lead guitar on Rita Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale", organizier of Blood, Sweat & Tears though he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity, author and podcaster, is #born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt into the Jewish family of Sam and Natalie Kuperschmidt in Brooklyn, New York City. Kooper produced a number of one-off collaboration albums, such as the Super Session album that saw him work separately with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. In the 1970s Kooper was a successful manager and producer, recording Lynyrd Skynyrd's first three albums. He has had a successful solo career, writing music for film soundtracks, and has lectured in musical composition. Kooper was selected for induction for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. Kooper's first professional work was as a 14-year-old guitarist in the Royal Teens, best known for their 1958 ABC Records novelty song "Short Shorts" (although Kooper did not play on that recording). In 1960, he teamed up with songwriters Bob Brass and Irwin Levine to write and record demos for Sea-Lark Music Publishing. The trio's biggest hits were "This Diamond Ring", recorded by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, and "I Must Be Seeing Things", recorded by Gene Pitney (both 1965). When he was 21, Kooper moved to Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He first performed with Bob Dylan playing the Hammond organ riffs on "Like a Rolling Stone". He had been invited to watch the recording by producer Tom Wilson. It was in those recording sessions that Kooper met and befriended Mike Bloomfield, whose guitar playing he admired. He worked with Bloomfield for several years. In 1965, Kooper played with Dylan in concert, and played Hammond organ with Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, as well as in the recording studio in 1965 and 1966. He played organ once again with Dylan during his 1981 world tour. Kooper joined the Blues Project as their keyboardist in 1965. He left the band shortly before their gig at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, although he did play a solo set, as evidenced by The Criterion Collection Blu-ray extended edition of the event. He formed Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1967, leaving due to creative differences in 1968, after the release of the group's first album, Child Is Father to the Man. He recorded Super Session with Bloomfield and Stephen Stills in 1968, and in 1969 he collaborated with 15-year-old guitarist Shuggie Otis on the album Kooper Session. In 1972, he rejoined The Blues Project at a charity concert promoted by Bruce Blakeman at Valley Stream Central High School. Kooper has played on hundreds of records, including ones by the Rolling Stones, B.B. King, the Who, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Alice Cooper, and Cream. On occasion he overdubbed his own efforts, as on The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper and other albums, under the pseudonym "Roosevelt Gook". In 1969, Kooper produced, arranged, and conducted the album Appaloosa, a "folk-baroque" style of music that combined rock and classical. Among other artists who were all arranging folk-oriented material with classical-influenced orchestration were Judy Collins, Donovan, Tim Hardin and Tom Rush. Kooper was joined by Boston musicians John Parker Compton, singer and acoustic guitarist, Robin Batteau on violin, Eugene Rosov on cello, and David Reiser on electric bass. Contributing to the album was saxophonist Fred Lipsius and Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby. After moving to Atlanta in 1972, he discovered the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and produced and performed on their first three albums, including the singles "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird". In 1975 he produced the debut album of the Tubes. Kooper wrote the scores for the TV series Crime Story and the film The Landlord, as well as several made-for-television movies. He was the musical force behind many pop tunes, including "You're the Lovin' End", for the children's television program The Banana Splits. During the late 1980s, Kooper had his own dedicated keyboard studio room in the historic Sound Emporium recording studio in Nashville, next to Studio B. Kooper's status as a published author enabled him to join (and act as musical director of) the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of writers including Dave Barry, Stephen King, Amy Tan, and Matt Groening. Kooper wrote a column called "New Music For Old People" for online publication The Morton Report from April 2014 to April 2015. This later led to a radio show by the same name, which began in October 2018, for Martha's Vineyard community radio station WVVY-LP. The first 11 editions of this can be found online. Kooper profiled Steve Martin for Crawdaddy Magazine in 1977. Kooper has his own podcast called "Kooperkast" which started in late 2020. Hosted by webmaster Jon Sachs, Kooper discusses his various experiences in his more than 60 years in the music industry, including his solo albums, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd. He answers questions which can be submitted on the Kooperkast page on his website. In May 2001, Kooper was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He taught songwriting and recording production there. He plays weekend concerts with his bands the ReKooperators and the Funky Faculty. In 2008, he participated in the production of the album Psalngs, the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre. Kooper was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, in Nashville, in 2008. In 2005, Martin Scorsese produced a documentary titled No Direction Home: Bob Dylan for the PBS American Masters Series, in which Kooper's contributions are recognized. In 2023, Kooper was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Award for Musical Excellence category. Kooper published a memoir, Backstage Passes: Rock 'n' Roll Life in the Sixties (1977), which was revised and published as Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'n' Roll Survivor (1998). The revised edition includes indictments of "manipulators" in the music industry, including his one-time business manager, Stan Polley. An updated edition, including supplementary material, was published by Backbeat Books in 2008. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! J. R. Cobb, American guitarist and songwriter, most notable for co-writing "Spooky", "Stormy" and "Traces", among others, as a member of the Classics IV (d. May 4, 2019) is #born James Barney Cobb Jr.. in Birmingham, Alabama. The Classics IV is an American band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1965. The band is often credited for establishing the "soft southern rock" sound. He also wrote "Champagne Jam" and "Do It Or Die", among others, as a member of the Atlanta Rhythm Section. "Stormy" is a hit song by the Classics IV released on their LP Mamas and Papas/Soul Train in 1968. It entered Billboard Magazine October 26, 1968, peaking at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #26 Easy Listening. This single release along with the prior release of "Spooky", and soon afterward the release of "Traces", released 1967 to 1969 and which have become cover standards, made great success for the band, and part of the well-known songs from the ensemble. Cobb died of a heart attack at Piedmont Newton Hospital in Covington, Georgia, aged 75. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Cory Wells, American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band Three Dog Night of Three Dog Night (d. October 20, 2015) is #born Emil Lewandowsk in Buffalo, New York. Wells came from a musical family and began playing in Buffalo-area bands in his teens. Having survived childhood in a low-income, blue-collar neighborhood and an even more brutal home environment fueled by an abusive stepfather, this according to manager Joel Cohen's band biography, Three Dog Night And Me, Wells joined the United States Air Force directly out of high school. While in the Air Force, he formed a band of interracial musical performers, inspired by his boyhood love of a similar popular band called The Del-Vikings, who had a national hit with the doo-wop song, "Come Go with Me". Following his military tour of duty, Wells returned to Buffalo and was asked to join a band named the Vibratos. Gene Jacobs, the brother-in-law of the Vibratos guitar player, Mike Lustan, suggested to him that the Vibratos travel to California if they were serious about making it in music. They took his advice and changed the name of the band to "The Enemys." They soon began working the clubs in Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas and Sacramento, and they became the house band at the Whisky a Go Go. They were also featured in the television shows The Beverly Hillbillies, Burke's Law, Riot on Sunset Strip, and the film Harper, with Paul Newman. While at the Whisky a Go Go, Cher asked the band to tour with Sonny & Cher. It was on this tour that Wells met Danny Hutton, a former songwriter/performer for Hanna-Barbera Productions who became his future partner in the rock band Three Dog Night. The Enemys had minor hits with recordings of "Hey Joe" and "Sinner Man". Wells moved to Phoenix in 1967 where he formed The Cory Wells Blues Band, whose bass player was future Three Dog Night bass player, Joe Schermetzler (stage name Joe Schermie). In 1968, Wells returned to Hollywood where he "couch-surfed" while Danny Hutton worked to convince him of the feasibility of forming a group with three lead singers and a back-up band. Hutton and Wells formed Three Dog Night in 1968. They found a third lead singer in Chuck Negron, whom Hutton had met at a Hollywood party. Hutton, Wells, and Negron met The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, and they recorded demos under the name "Redwood" with Wilson as producer. The sessions produced a potential single, "Time to Get Alone," but Beach Boy member Mike Love wanted to save the song for the next Beach Boys album. Having perfected their three-part harmony sound, Wells, Hutton and Negron added a four-piece backing group consisting of guitarist Michael Allsup, organist Jimmy Greenspoon, bassist Joe Schermie, and drummer Floyd Sneed. The group began performing as Three Dog Night in 1968, and became one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Wells sang the lead vocal on Three Dog Night's Billboard No. 1 hit song "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)". He said that Randy Newman, who wrote the song, later called him on the phone and said: "I just want to thank you for putting my kids through college." Unlike many other rock musicians of the day, Wells managed to abstain from alcohol and other drugs. Also, he didn't squander his earnings on the lavish lifestyles of many other successful rock stars; rather, he chose to live a somewhat more moderate existence. After Three Dog Night broke up in 1976, Wells tried a solo career, recording the album Touch Me for A & M Records in 1978. Wells helped re-launch Three Dog Night in the mid-1980s, recording an EP called "It's a Jungle". A falling out with Negron left Hutton and Wells with the name "Three Dog Night" as an entity, and the pair (along with original member Mike Allsup) toured regularly each year. Original member Jimmy Greenspoon also toured with Three Dog Night until Greenspoon's diagnosis of metastatic melanoma in late 2014, which led to his death in March 2015. Cory Wells died in his sleep at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk, New York at the age of 74. His family later confirmed he was fighting multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood (1989) Comedy TV Special DVD, MP4, USB
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1948: #BOTD: #HBD! Christopher Guest, American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship, is #born. Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, usually simply known as Christopher Guest, is widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style. Many scenes and character backgrounds in Guest's films are written and directed, although actors have no rehearsal time and the ensemble improvise scenes while filming them. The series of films began with This Is Spinal Tap (directed by Rob Reiner), and continued with Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots. He is perhaps most popularly known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live. Guest holds a hereditary British peerage as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically elected chamber. Though he was initially active in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the right of most hereditary peers to a seat in the parliament. When using his title, he is normally styled as Lord Haden-Guest. Guest is married to the actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis. https://store.earthstation1.com/i-martin-short-goes-hollywood-19891989.html

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Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1943: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: American Film Premieres: -- Kid Dynamite, directed by Wallace Fox and starring the East Side Kids, is released to theaters. It was based on the 1942 short story The Old Gang by Paul Ernst and features additional dialogue by comedian Morey Amsterdam. It was released on February 5, 1943. The working title of this film was Little Mobsters. The first set of credits lists Pamela Blake, Mike Riley's Orchestra and Marion Miller. The comprehensive cast list, however, omits the Orchestra and Miller. In such a case, the IMDb cast ordering uses the first set of credits first, followed by the rest from the second set. In a previous East Side Kids film, "Glimpy" was a family name, but here it's Huntz Hall's character's first name or nickname. Ava Gardner was scheduled to play Ivy, but she was replaced by Pamela Blake because of illness. https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

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Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. February 11, 1909) #dies of a heart attack, six days before his 84th birthday. He is interred in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard cemetery in Bedford, New York. Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born Joseph Leo Mankiewicz in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Franz Mankiewicz and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish emigrants from Germany and the Courland region of western Latvia, respectively. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scene. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a writer and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at 20th Century Fox. Over six years, he made 11 films for Fox. During his over 40-year career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote 48 screenplays. He also produced more than 20 films, including The Philadelphia Story (1940) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Woman of the Year (1942), for which he introduced Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy. https://store.earthstation1.com/katharine-hepburn-all-about-me-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The War In Korea 2 Part TV Series w/ Kirk Douglas DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Kirk Douglas, American sailor, actor, singer, film producer, film director, writer, television host and philanthropist (b. December 9, 11916) #dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California, surrounded by family, at age 103. His cause of death was kept private. Douglas's funeral was held at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery on February 7, 2020, two days after his death. He was buried in the same plot as his son Eric. He was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York to the Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Region, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) of Bryna "Bertha" (nee Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch. The family spoke Yiddish at home. After an impoverished childhood with six sisters, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films. Douglas was known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in Town Without Pity (1961). Douglas became an international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day, Ace in the Hole opposite Jan Sterling (1951), and Detective Story (1951), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama. He received his second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), which also landed him a second Golden Globe nomination. In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). In those two films, he collaborated with the then-relatively unknown director Stanley Kubrick, taking lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. He produced and starred in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), considered a classic, and Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received three Academy Award nominations, an Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, the highest-ranked living person on the list until his death. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. He lived with his second wife (of 66 years), Anne Buydens, a producer, until his death on February 5, 2020, aged 103. A centenarian, he was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. Douglas joined the United States Navy in 1941, shortly after the United States entered World War II, where he served as a communications officer in anti-submarine warfare aboard USS PC-1139. He was medically discharged in 1944 for injuries sustained from the premature explosion of a depth charge. After the war, Douglas returned to New York City and found work in radio, theater and commercials. In his radio work, he acted in network soap operas, and saw those experiences as being especially valuable, as skill in using one's voice is important for aspiring actors; he regretted that the same avenues were no longer available. His stage break occurred when he took over the role played by Richard Widmark in Kiss and Tell (1943), which then led to other offers. Douglas had planned to remain a stage actor, until his friend, Lauren Bacall, helped him get his first film role by recommending him to producer Hal B. Wallis, who was looking for a new male talent. Wallis's film, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), with Barbara Stanwyck, became Douglas's debut screen appearance. He played a young, insecure man, stung with jealousy, whose life was dominated by his ruthless wife, and he hid his feelings with alcohol. It would be the last time that Douglas portrayed a weakling in a film role. Reviewers of the film noted that Douglas already projected qualities of a "natural film actor", with the similarity of this role with later ones explained by biographer Tony Thomas: "His style and his personality came across on the screen, something that does not always happen, even with the finest actors. Douglas had, and has, a distinctly individual manner. He radiates a certain inexplicable quality, and it is this, as much as talent, that accounts for his success in films." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-war-in-korea-dvd-2-part-tv-series-2-dis22.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Franz Kafka Biography / The Trial / The Metamorphosis MP4 Download DVD
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor and producer (b. December 13, 1929) #dies at his home in Weston, Connecticut at the age of 91. According to his wife of fifty years Elaine Taylor, he died two and a half weeks after a fall that resulted in a blow to the head. A statement released by the family announced that Plummer had died peacefully with his Taylor by his side. Christopher Plummer was born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer in Toronto, Ontario. Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC's career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. He received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award nomination?making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting" to also acquire a Grammy nomination. He made his Broadway debut in 1954 and continued to act in leading roles on stage, playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974), Iago in Othello, as well as playing the titular roles in Hamlet at Elsinore (1964), Macbeth, King Lear, and Barrymore. Plummer performed in stage productions, including J.B., No Man's Land, and Inherit the Wind. Christopher Plummer grew up in Senneville, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. After appearing on stage, he made his film debut in Stage Struck (1958), landed his first starring role that same year in Wind Across the Everglades, and won widespread acclaim for his performance as Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie Andrews. Plummer played numerous major historical figures, including Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017). His film credits also include Malcolm X (1992), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The New World (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Knives Out (2019), and The Last Full Measure (2019). Plummer received various awards for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian to accomplish this feat. In 2011, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences (a distinction he held until being supplanted by 83-year-old Anthony Hopkins in 2021), and he also received an Oscar nomination at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest person to be nominated in any acting category at the Academy Awards. https://store.earthstation1.com/franz-kafka39s-the-trial-dvd-1987-docum391987.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Marianne Moore: In Her Own Image DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Marianne Moore, American poet, author, critic, editor and translator (b. November 15, 1887) #dies a series of strokes in her last years in New York City, aged 84. Her ashes are interred with those of her mother at the family's burial plot at the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. By the time of her death, she had received many honorary degrees and virtually every honor available to an American poet. The New York Times printed a full-page obituary. In 1996, she was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She was born Marianne Craig Moore in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor near St. Loui. Her modernist poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. She was widely recognized for her tricorn hat and black cape. Her poems often reflect her preoccupation with the relationships between the common and the uncommon, advocate discipline in both art and life, and espouse restraint, modesty, and humor. She frequently used animals as a central image to emphasize themes of independence, honesty, and the integration of art and nature. Moore's work is frequently grouped with poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and, later, Elizabeth Bishop, to whom she was a friend and mentor. In his introduction to her Selected Poems (1935), Eliot wrote: "Living, the poet is carrying on that struggle for the maintenance of a living language, for the maintenance of its strength, its subtlety, for the preservation of quality of feeling, which must be kept up in every generation _ Miss Moore is, I believe, one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime." Moore grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She earned a BA in biology and histology from Bryn Mawr College; early poems such as "A Jelly-Fish" were first published in the college's literary magazines. After graduation, Moore studied at Carlisle Commercial College and taught at the Carlisle Indian School. Moore and her mother, who were devoted to each other, moved to New York City in 1918 and Moore began working at the New York Public Library in 1921. Her first volume Poems (1921) was selected and arranged by H.D., who gathered work that had appeared in journals such as Others, the Egoist, and Poetry magazine. Moore's second collection Observations (1924) included poems chosen by Moore to represent the full range of her poetry's forms and themes. The volume contained classic Moore poems such as "Marriage," a long free-verse poem featuring collage-like assemblages of quotations and fragments, and "An Octopus," a detailed exploration of Mount Rainier. Named for the shape of the glacier surrounding the mountain, the poem is regarded as one of Moore's finest. Moore was the editor of the influential literary magazine Dial from 1925 to 1929, when the magazine shut down. Moore's work on the Dial expanded her circle of literary acquaintances and introduced her work to a more international audience. Moore published Selected Poems in 1935. The volume included poems from Observations as well as pieces that had been published between 1932 and 1934. The '30s and '40s were productive years for Moore: she published The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936), What Are Years (1941), and Nevertheless (1944). The last volume included Moore's anti-war poem "In Distrust of Merits," which was judged by W.H. Auden one of the best poems to come out of World War II. Moore, however, described the poem as "just a protest-disjointed, exclamatory." Moore's comments on poetry were notoriously ambiguous-her poem "Poetry" begins, "I too dislike it"-and she once described herself as a "happy hack." Moore's Collected Poems (1951) won both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the National Book Award, and in 1953 she was awarded the Bollingen Prize. Her later works include a translation of The Fables of La Fontaine (1954); Like a Bulwark (1956); O, to Be a Dragon (1959); Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics (1966); and The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967), which was reissued in 1981 with revisions to early poems and additional poems written later in life. In addition to poetry, Moore wrote a significant number of prose pieces, including reviews and essays. Her prose works cover a broad range of subjects: painting, sculpture, literature, music, fashion, herbal medicine, and sports-she was an avid baseball fan and wrote the liner notes for Muhammed Ali's record, I Am the Greatest! Moore's prose works include A Marianne Moore Reader (1961), Predilections (1955), and The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore (1987). Moore was highly regarded as a poet during her lifetime and even became somewhat of a celebrity, featured in magazines such as Life, the New York Times, and The New Yorker. Ford Motor Company asked her to come up with names for a new series of cars, though they rejected her suggestions. Moore's honors and awards included the Poetry Society of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Development, the National Medal for Literature, and an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She died in 1972 in New York City. https://store.earthstation1.com/marianne-moore-in-her-own-image-dvd-poetry-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Churchills 3 Part 1996 TV Miniseries MP4 Video Download 2 DVD Set
Today, February 5, 2026
February 5, 1997: #DOTD: #RIP: Pamela Harriman, widely described in a complimentary fashion as the greatest courtesan of the twentieth century, also known as Pamela Beryl Harriman and Pamela Churchill Harriman, English-born American political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, socialite and beauty (b. March 20, 1920) #dies.at the American Hospital, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine department, Paris, France after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while swimming at the Paris Ritz hotel one day earlier, aged 76. The morning after her death, President Jacques Chirac of France awarded her the Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, the first female foreign diplomat to receive this honor, and personally placed it on her flag-draped coffin. United States President Bill Clinton, in further recognition of her contributions and significance, dispatched Air Force One to return her body to the US and spoke at her funeral at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., mentioning her public service in glowing terms. Harriman was buried February 14, 1997, at Arden, the historic former Harriman estate outside Harriman, New York that was owned by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and his wife, Mary Averell Harriman; since 2011, it has been owned by the nonprofit Research Center on Natural Conservation, which operates Arden House as a conference center with 97 guest rooms. Pamela Harriman was born Pamela Digby in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, and his wife, Constance Pamela Alice, the daughter of Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare. She was educated by governesses in the ancestral home at Minterne Magna in Dorset, along with her three younger siblings, and later attended Downham School. Her great-great aunt was the nineteenth-century adventurer and courtesan Jane Digby (1807-1881), notorious for her exotic travels and scandalous personal life' Pamela was to follow in her aunt's footsteps. Raised amid acres of Dorset farmland and woods, from an early age Pamela was a very good horsewoman. She competed at shows at the International Olympia, Royal Bath and West Show, and local shows at Dorchester and Melplash. She show-jumped a tiny pony called Stardust that did a clear round at Olympia when every fence was above the animal's withers. At the age of seventeen, she was sent to a Munich boarding school for six months. While there she was introduced to Adolf Hitler by Unity Mitford. She subsequently went to Paris, taking some classes at the Sorbonne. Although in her Who's Who biography she identified these classes as "post-graduate" work, she actually never completed a college degree.[3] By 1937, she had returned to Britain. She was a descendant of the Earls of Leicester and Ilchester and the Dukes of Atholl. She was a first cousin of Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk. She was also a third cousin, once removed, of Angus Ogilvy, husband of Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Alexandra of Kent. She was also a fourth cousin, once removed, of Sarah, Duchess of York. She married three times: her first husband was Randolph Churchill, the son of prime minister Winston Churchill; her third husband was W. Averell Harriman, an American diplomat who also served as Governor of New York. Her only child, Winston Churchill, was named after his famous grandfather. She served as US ambassador to France from 1993 until her death in 1997. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-churchills-3-part-1996-tv-miniseries-mp4-video-download-2-3199642.html