On Feb. 5, 1937, President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.
On Feb. 5, 1900, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, the American politician and diplomat, was born. Following his death on July 14, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1881 | Phoenix, Ariz., was incorporated. |
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| 1917 | Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians. |
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| 1937 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. Critics charged that he was attempting to "pack" the court. |
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| 1958 | Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt. |
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| 1988 | The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office. |
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| 1988 | Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida. |
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| 1994 | White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison. |
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| 1997 | Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter. |
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| 2001 | Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. |
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| 2002 | A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. |
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| 2006 | The Pittsburgh Steelers won a record-tying fifth Super Bowl with a 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks. |
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| 2007 | Astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested after driving 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando, Fla., to mount a bizarre attack on a romantic rival. |
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Current Birthdays
Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron turns 77 years old today.
AP Photo/Mike Groll
Actress Laura Linney turns 47 years old today.
AP Photo/Reed Saxon
| 1928 | Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, Professor, author, turns 83 |
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| 1942 | Roger Staubach, Football Hall of Famer, turns 69 |
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| 1943 | Michael Mann, Director, turns 68 |
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| 1944 | Al Kooper, Rock musician, singer (Blood, Sweat and Tears), turns 67 |
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| 1946 | Charlotte Rampling, Actress, turns 65 |
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| 1948 | Christopher Guest, Actor, screenwriter ("This is Spinal Tap"), turns 63 |
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| 1948 | Barbara Hershey, Actress, turns 63 |
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| 1948 | Tom Wilkinson, Actor, turns 63 |
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| 1959 | Jennifer Granholm, Former governor of Michigan, turns 52 |
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| 1961 | Tim Meadows, Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 50 |
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| 1962 | Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress, turns 49 |
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| 1967 | Chris Parnell, Actor-comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 44 |
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| 1968 | Roberto Alomar, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 43 |
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| 1969 | Bobby Brown, R&B singer, turns 42 |
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| 1971 | Sara Evans, Country singer, turns 40 |
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Historic Birthdays
Adlai Ewing Stevenson2/5/1900 - 7/14/1965American politician/diplomat.Go to obituary »
| 70 | Marie Sevigne 2/5/1626 - 4/17/1696
French writer, mostly of letters to her daughter |
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| 41 | Belle Starr 2/5/1848 - 2/3/1889
American outlaw in Texas and Oklahoma territory |
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| 57 | Andre-Gustave Citroen 2/5/1878 - 7/3/1935
French engineer/industrialist |
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| 71 | Ralph E. McGill 2/5/1898 - 2/3/1969
American journalist |
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| 82 | John Carradine 2/5/1906 - 11/27/1988
American actor |
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| 83 | William S. Burroughs 2/5/1914 - 8/2/1997
American writer |
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| 75 | Robert Hofstadter 2/5/1915 - 11/17/1990
American physicist, winner of Nobel prize |
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| 77 | Andreas Papandreou 2/5/1919 - 6/23/1996
Greek prime minister |
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