February 5th Events |
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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, 2004 (February 05 2004) | Event | Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, Englandied in Twenty-one bodies are recovered. | |
| February 5th, 2004 (February 05 2004) | Event | Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaives, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. | |
| February 5th, 1997 (February 05 1997) | Event | The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. | |
| February 5th, 1994 (February 05 1994) | Event | Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. | |
| February 5th, 1994 (February 05 1994) | Event | During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. | |
| February 5th, 1988 (February 05 1988) | Event | Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. | |
| February 5th, 1974 (February 05 1974) | Event | John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. | |
| February 5th, 1972 (February 05 1972) | Event | Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. | |
| February 5th, 1971 (February 05 1971) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 14 MissionAlan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation. | |
| February 5th, 1968 (February 05 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins. | |
| February 5th, 1962 (February 05 1962) | Event | French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| 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, 1946 (February 05 1946) | Event | The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. | |
| February 5th, 1945 (February 05 1945) | Event | World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| February 5th, 1924 (February 05 1924) | Event | The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". | |
| February 5th, 1919 (February 05 1919) | Event | Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. | Charlie Chaplin Quotes |
| 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, 1917 (February 05 1917) | Event | The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. | |
| February 5th, 1917 (February 05 1917) | Event | The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson s veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States. | |
| February 5th, 1900 (February 05 1900) | Event | The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal | |
| February 5th, 1885 (February 05 1885) | Event | King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. | |
| February 5th, 1859 (February 05 1859) | Event | Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities. | |
| February 5th, 1818 (February 05 1818) | Event | Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. | |
| February 5th, 1782 (February 05 1782) | Event | Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. | |
| February 5th, 1778 (February 05 1778) | Event | South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. | |
| February 5th, 1631 (February 05 1631) | Event | Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. | Roger Williams Quotes |
| February 5th, 1597 (February 05 1597) | Event | A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. | |
| February 5th, 1576 (February 05 1576) | Event | Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. | |
