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February 5: Constitution Day in Mexico (1917)

A device for producing Bakelite

1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite (production device pictured), the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.
1958 – After a mid-air collision with a fighter plane during a practice exercise off Tybee Island, Georgia, a U.S. Air Force bomber jettisoned a Mark 15 nuclear bomb, which was presumed lost.
1985 – The mayors of Carthage and Rome signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began.
2019 – Pope Francis became the first pope to celebrate a papal Mass in the Arabian Peninsula.

Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. (b. 1875)
William Bostock (b. 1892)
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (d. 1983)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (b. 1990)

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