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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Mexico" title="Public holidays in Mexico">Constitution Day</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909" title="1909">1909</a> – Belgian chemist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Baekeland" title="Leo Baekeland">Leo Baekeland</a> announced his invention of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite" title="Bakelite">Bakelite</a></b>, the world's first synthetic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic" title="Plastic">plastic</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi" title="Claudio Monteverdi">Claudio Monteverdi</a>'s last opera, <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27incoronazione_di_Poppea" title="L'incoronazione di Poppea">L'incoronazione di Poppea</a></b></i>, was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958" title="1958">1958</a> – After <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision" title="1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision">a mid-air collision with a fighter plane</a></b> during a practice exercise off <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Island,_Georgia" title="Tybee Island, Georgia">Tybee Island, Georgia</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> bomber jettisoned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_15_nuclear_bomb" title="Mark 15 nuclear bomb">Mark 15 nuclear bomb</a>, which was presumed lost.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – The mayors of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_(municipality)" title="Carthage (municipality)">Carthage</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War" title="Third Punic War">Third Punic War</a></b>, 2,134 years after it began.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019" title="2019">2019</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a></b> became the first pope to celebrate a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Mass" title="Papal Mass">papal Mass</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Ward_Lyon_Jr." title="Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.">Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1875); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bostock" title="William Bostock">William Bostock</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1892); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff" title="Margaret Oakley Dayhoff">Margaret Oakley Dayhoff</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1983); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuvneshwar_Kumar" title="Bhuvneshwar Kumar">Bhuvneshwar Kumar</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1990)</p>