Today is Wednesday, February 5, the 36th day of 2014. There are 329 days left in the year.
1816 ― Rossini’s Opera “Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome
1861 ― Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia, Pa.
1901 ― Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
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
1958 ― Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic
1974 ― Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
1983 ― Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1991 ― A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides