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What Happened on February 5th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist.[17] Eleven police officers are arrested.
2020	United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
2019	Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
2008	A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2004	Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2000	Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
1997	The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
1994	Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994	Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1988	Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1985	Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1975	Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1971	Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1967	Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
1963	The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1962	French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1958	Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958	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.
1945	World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1941	World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1939	Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1933	Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
1924	The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1919	Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1918	Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918	SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1917	The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917	The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1913	Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1913	Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.
1907	Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1905	In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1901	J. P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, a $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business.
1885	King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1869	The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1862	Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
1859	Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1852	The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1818	Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1810	Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1783	In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1597	A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1576	Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
62	Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.

Famous People Born on February 5

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Year	Name
1944	Al Kooper, American singer-songwriter and producer
1519	René of Châlon, prince of Orange (d. 1544)
1935	Johannes Geldenhuys, South African military commander (d. 2018)
1723	John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794)
1987	Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
1917	Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
1975	Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer and manager
1969	Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1964	Laura Linney, American actress
1955	Mike Heath, American baseball player and manager

Famous People Deaths On February 5

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Date	Name
1015	Adelaide, German abbess and saint
1948	Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
1922	Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
2016	Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)
1790	William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807	Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
1705	Philipp Spener, German theologian and author (b. 1635)
1775	Eusebius Amort, German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
1992	Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
1946	George Arliss, English actor and playwright (b. 1868)