On This Day: 05 Feb

Births:

Basil Cooper (1924); Charles Edmund Brock (1970); George Parlett (1902); John Bernard Handelsman (JBH; 1922)

Character Births:

Daniel MacGregor Dare (1967)

Notable Events:

No End of Blame, a play about Victor Weisz's life, began at the Oxford Playhouse in 1982.
LWT filmed a sequence for Surprise! Surprise! in the Marvel UK offices in 1988, allowing 15 year-old Christopher McRoberts to meet some of the creators.
Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics exhibition began at House of Illustration, London, in 2016.
Sci-Feb superhero event began at Humber Royal Hotel, Grimsby, in 2017.