Today is Tuesday, February 5, the 36th day of 2013. There are 329 days left in the year.
1816 ― Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1850 ― Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, N.Y.
1897 ― Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
1916 ― Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company
1922 ― Reader's Digest magazine first published
1937 ― First Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," is released
1962 ― French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
1980 ― Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1983 ― Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1989 ― Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points