What happened in history on February 5?

Answer 1

Three significant events in Australian history for February 5 include:

1803: The early Australian sea-explorer, George Bass, disappeared. No trace of him was ever found.

1869: The world's largest recorded gold nugget to that date was found in Victoria, Australia.

1947: Australia's first cloud-seeding experiment resulting in artificially produced rain was carried out at Bathurst, New South Wales.

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Answer 2

Some significant events in history that happened on February 5 include the Mexican-American War officially ending in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the first woman being elected to the United States Senate in 1932 (Hattie Caraway from Arkansas), and the birth of the modern Chinese naval force in 1949 with the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy.