February 5

The Roman Senate and people formally hailed Augustus as Pater Patriae, 'Father of the Country,' a title he recorded in his own Res Gestae.

Twenty-six Christians, among them the Jesuit Paul Miki, were executed on a hill above Nagasaki, later commemorated as the Martyrs of Japan.

James Quibell uncovered the near-intact tomb of Yuya and Thuya (KV46) in the Valley of the Kings on this day in 1905, one of the richest burials found before Tutankhamun's.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who taught the Transcendental Meditation technique to millions worldwide, died at Vlodrop in the Netherlands.

Hsing Yun, founder of Taiwan's Fo Guang Shan monastic order and its worldwide Buddha's Light lay association, died at age 95.

Apollo 14's lunar module touched down in the Fra Mauro highlands, where Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell gathered rock samples and set up experiments across two surface excursions.