On This Day:
Wednesday February 5, 2014 This is the 36th day of the year, with 329 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: alloys An alloy is a metallic substance composed of two or more elements, as either a compound or a solution. The components of alloys are usually metals, though carbon, a nonmetal, is a main constituent of steel. Alloys are usually produced by melting the mixture of ingredients. The value of alloys was discovered in very ancient times; brass (copper and zinc) and bronze (copper and tin) were especially important. Copper and tin are weak and pliable, but when mixed together to form bronze they make a strong alloy. Brass is a tough alloy that resists corrosion. Most metal objects are made of steel or other alloys because alloys are often stronger or easier to process than pure metals. Alloys of aluminum are light and strong and are used to make aircraft.
Holidays Feast day of St. Agatha, Saints Indractus and Dominica, St. Adelaide of Bellich, St. Bertulph or Bertoul of Renty, St. Avitus of Vienne, and St. Vodalus or Voel.
China: Kitchen God Celebration.
Finland: Runeberg's Day.
Mexico: Constitution Day.
Events 1556 - Henry II of France and Philip of Spain signed the truce of Vaucelles.
1631 - The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife arrived in Boston from England. Williams edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.
1916 - Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
1917 - Mexico's constitution was adopted.
1917 - Congress nullified President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the Immigration Act. The law severely curtailed the immigration of Asians and required literacy tests.
1922 - "Reader's Digest" began publication in New York.
1937 - President Franklin Roosevelt announced a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court in his favor. The Senate struck it down by a vote of 70-22. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942 all but two of the justices were his appointees.
1952 - New York adopted three-colored traffic lights.
1953 - The Walt Disney film, "Peter Pan," opened in New York City.
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.
1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Douglas coached and owned the New York Renaissance, an all-black team which won 88 consecutive games in 1933.
1981 - Marine Private First Class Robert Garwood was convicted of collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
2003 - Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council with U.S. plans to invade Iraq.
Births 1744 - John Jeffries, American, known as America's first weatherman.
1878 - Andre-Gustave Citroën, French engineer and industrialist.
1900 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, American politician and diplomat.
1914 - William Burroughs, American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter, and spoken word performer.
1919 - Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt), American comedian, actor.
1934 - Henry (Hank) Aaron, Baseball Hall-of-Famer, baseball executive.
Deaths 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, English author and historian.
1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American sporting-goods store founder.
1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat.
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