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05 February, 2004
Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
05 February, 2004
Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
05 February, 1997
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
05 February, 1994
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
05 February, 1994
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.
05 February, 1988
Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
05 February, 1988
Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.
05 February, 1974
John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
05 February, 1972
Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
05 February, 1971
Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.
05 February, 1968
Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
05 February, 1962
French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
05 February, 1958
Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
05 February, 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.
05 February, 1946
The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
05 February, 1945
World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
05 February, 1937
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
05 February, 1924
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
05 February, 1919
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
05 February, 1917
The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
05 February, 1917
The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilsons veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.
05 February, 1900
The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
05 February, 1885
King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
05 February, 1859
Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.
05 February, 1818
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
05 February, 1782
Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
05 February, 1778
South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
05 February, 1631
Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
05 February, 1597
A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
05 February, 1576
Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.

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