February 05

Thursday 05, 2004:

Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

Wednesday 05, 2003:

U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.

Monday 05, 2001:

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announce that they have separated.

Friday 05, 1999:

Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people.

Wednesday 05, 1997:

Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.

Saturday 05, 1994:

Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Tuesday 05, 1991:

A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.

Friday 05, 1988:

Comic Relief hold the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.

Sunday 05, 1978:

The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters ever to hit New England, forms.

Tuesday 05, 1974:

John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.

Saturday 05, 1972:

Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Friday 05, 1971:

Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.

Monday 05, 1968:

The Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War began.

Monday 05, 1962:

French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.

Sunday 05, 1961:

The Sunday Telegraph publishes its first issue.

Wednesday 05, 1958:

A hydrogen bomb known as Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

Thursday 05, 1953:

The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).

Monday 05, 1945:

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

Friday 05, 1937:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.

Tuesday 05, 1929:

"They'll Do It Every Time", a comic strip still in syndication as of 2005, debuts in a San Francisco newspaper.

Tuesday 05, 1924:

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".

Sunday 05, 1922:

DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest. (Some sources say February 7.)

Wednesday 05, 1919:

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

Monday 05, 1917:

The Congress of the United States passes a law banning most Asian immigration.

Thursday 05, 1885:

King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.

Saturday 05, 1881:

Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.

Saturday 05, 1859:

Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).

Thursday 05, 1846:

The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States.

Tuesday 05, 1782:

Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.

Thursday 05, 1778:

South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

Wednesday 05, 1631:

Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.

Thursday 05, 1576:

Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.

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