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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival" title="Lantern Festival">Lantern Festival</a></b> in China (2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_BiShvat" title="Tu BiShvat">Tu BiShvat</a></b> begins (Judaism, 2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1637" title="1637">1637</a> – Ninety-eight sales for rare <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip" title="Tulip">tulip</a> bulbs were recorded on the last day of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania" title="Tulip mania">tulip mania</a></b>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble" title="Economic bubble">speculative bubble</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1818" title="1818">1818</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John" title="Charles XIV John">Charles XIV John</a></b> succeeded to the thrones of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_between_Sweden_and_Norway" title="Union between Sweden and Norway">Sweden and Norway</a> as the first monarch of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bernadotte" title="House of Bernadotte">House of Bernadotte</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a> – In a speech before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a>, Representative <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Bouligny" title="John Edward Bouligny">John Edward Bouligny</a></b> refused to join his fellow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> congressmen in heeding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_secession" title="Louisiana secession">the state's secession convention</a> and resigning.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a> – At least 21 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cockle" title="Common cockle">cockle</a>-gatherers were <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster" title="Morecambe Bay cockling disaster">drowned by an incoming tide</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_Bay" title="Morecambe Bay">Morecambe Bay</a>, England, prompting the establishment of the British government's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangmasters_and_Labour_Abuse_Authority" title="Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority">Gangmasters Licensing Authority</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Spener" title="Philipp Spener">Philipp Spener</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1705); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cullen" title="William Cullen">William Cullen</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1790); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neymar" title="Neymar">Neymar</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1992)</p>
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