House of Commons Approves Same-Sex Marriage

On February 5, 2013

The House of Commons voted in favor of same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom.

Same-sex marriages in England and Wales began at midnight on March 29, 2014.

This Day in History - February 5

1922

The general interest family magazine Reader's Digest was first published.

1924

Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison after two years into his six-year sentence.

1870

The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.

1988

The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).

1597

The government executed a group of Japanese Catholic Christians (known as the 26 Martyrs) as they were deemed too dangerous to Japan's way of life.

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