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| February 5th, 2008 (February 05 2008) | Event | A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88. | |
| February 5th, 2008 (February 05 2008) | Death | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (born in ca. 1917) | |
| February 5th, 1998 (February 05 1998) | Death | Tim Kelly, American musician (born in 1963) | |
| February 5th, 1988 (February 05 1988) | Event | Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. | |
| February 5th, 1978 (February 05 1978) | Birth | Shawn Reaves, American actor | |
| February 5th, 1978 (February 05 1978) | Birth | Brian Russell, American football player | |
| February 5th, 1968 (February 05 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins. | |
| February 5th, 1968 (February 05 1968) | Birth | Roberto Alomar, baseball player | |
| February 5th, 1968 (February 05 1968) | Birth | Ey?or Gu?jonsson, Icelandic actor | |
| February 5th, 1968 (February 05 1968) | Birth | Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor | |
| February 5th, 1958 (February 05 1958) | Event | Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. | |
| February 5th, 1958 (February 05 1958) | Event | A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. | |
| February 5th, 1948 (February 05 1948) | Birth | Sven-Goran Eriksson, Swedish football manager | |
| February 5th, 1948 (February 05 1948) | Birth | Christopher Guest, American actor | |
| February 5th, 1948 (February 05 1948) | Birth | Barbara Hershey, American actress | |
| February 5th, 1948 (February 05 1948) | Birth | Errol Morris, American film director | Errol Morris Quotes |
| February 5th, 1948 (February 05 1948) | Death | Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (born in 1883) | |
| February 5th, 1938 (February 05 1938) | Death | Hans Litten, German jurist (born in 1903) | |
| February 5th, 1928 (February 05 1928) | Birth | Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist | |
| February 5th, 1918 (February 05 1918) | Event | Stephen W. Thompson shot down a German airplane. It was the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. | |
| February 5th, 1908 (February 05 1908) | Birth | Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (died in 1969) | |
| February 5th, 1878 (February 05 1878) | Birth | Andre Citroen, French automobile pioneer (died in 1935) | |
| February 5th, 1848 (February 05 1848) | Birth | Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (died in 1907) | |
| February 5th, 1848 (February 05 1848) | Birth | Belle Starr, American outlaw (died in 1889) | |
| February 5th, 1848 (February 05 1848) | Birth | Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (died in 1882) | |
| February 5th, 1818 (February 05 1818) | Event | Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. | |
| February 5th, 1808 (February 05 1808) | Birth | Carl Spitzweg, German painter (died in 1885) | |
| February 5th, 1788 (February 05 1788) | Birth | Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1850) | |
| February 5th, 1778 (February 05 1778) | Event | South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. | |
| February 5th, 1608 (February 05 1608) | Birth | Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (died in 1666) | |
| February 5th, 1578 (February 05 1578) | Death | Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter | |
