Febrauary 5

February 05, 2026

It's Febraury 5th

On this day in 1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.

In 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.

1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.

In 1985 - "Africa" by Toto hit's #1

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Birthdays:

Michael Sheen
as Arthur Honeyman in "Music Within"

Chris Parnell

Jon Spencer

Duff McKagen

Laura Linney

Stephen Shainberg

Jennifer Jason Leigh
as Tralala in "Last Exit to Brooklyn"

Tim Meadows

Vinnie Colaiuta

Cliff Martinez

Tom Wilkinson

Errol Morris
on Tubi
on Criterion Channel
"The Pianist and the Lobster"
Episode 54 of Weird Studies "Lobsters, Pianos and Hidden Gods."

Barbara Hershey
as Nella Mundine in "The Liberation of L. B. Jones"

Christopher Guest

Charlotte Rampling
as Christina Fisher in "Sardinia Kidnapped" aka "Island of Crime"
as the hitch-hiker in the UK Version of "Vanishing Point"

The UK theatrical release of the film differs slightly from the US release in plot and running time. In the UK release, Kowalski picks up a mysterious hitchhiker toward the end of the film. Kowalski accepts marijuana from her, despite refusing marijuana in several previous scenes. He stops the car when he starts feeling stoned. She says she has been "waiting for him, everywhere and since forever." When he awakens the next morning, she is gone without a trace. According to interviews with Barry Newman and commentary from the director, the hitchhiker was meant to be an allegorical figure representing death. This scene was removed from the final US version, reducing the film from 105 minutes to 98 minutes. Newman felt that the scene gave the film "an allegorical lift" but the studio was afraid that the audience would not understand.

Al Kooper

J. R. Cobb

Michael Mann

Barrett Strong

David Selby
as Quentin Collins and Charles Collins in "Night of Dark Shadows"

Stephen J. Cannell

H. R. Giger
"Penis Landscape"

"Bio-Mechanical Landscape"

Stuart Damon

Alex Harvey

Jörn Donner
"The Films of Ingmar Burgman"
"The Personal Vision of Ingmar Burgman"

Luc Ferarri

Hal Blaine

Tim Holt
as Lt. Partane in "The Yesterday Machine"

In the story, a newspaper reporter, a nightclub singer, and the singer's sister fall into the hands of a mad Nazi physicist who has developed a time travel machine with which he intends to snatch Adolf Hitler from the past, teleport him into the present, and forever bring the world under the brutal domination of the Third Reich. According to Albright, the film received "limited distribution" by Interstate Theaters, a Dallas-based chain of movie theatres. It "appears to have played Texas drive-ins as late as 1974" but was perhaps not shown outside that state.

Red Buttons
as Mickey Isador in "Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?" aka "Death of a Hooker"