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Events on the 5th of February in history

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05 Feb 2062 Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
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05 Feb 0756 An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty. He declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
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05 Feb 0816 Frankish Emperor Louis grants Archbishop Salzburg immunity
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05 Feb 1488 Roman Catholic German Emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
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05 Feb 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
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05 Feb 1556 Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
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05 Feb 1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out
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05 Feb 1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
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05 Feb 1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
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05 Feb 1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
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05 Feb 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
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05 Feb 1631 Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
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05 Feb 1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
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05 Feb 1649 Prince of Wales becomes King Charles II
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05 Feb 1663 Earthquake in Canada
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05 Feb 1679 German Emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
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05 Feb 1736 Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
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05 Feb 1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail and primogeniture
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05 Feb 1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
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05 Feb 1778 South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
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05 Feb 1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
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05 Feb 1782 Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
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05 Feb 1783 Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
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05 Feb 1783 Sweden recognizes US independence
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05 Feb 1783 In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
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05 Feb 1795 Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
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05 Feb 1810 Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
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05 Feb 1817 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
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05 Feb 1818 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
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05 Feb 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar
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05 Feb 1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
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05 Feb 1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
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05 Feb 1849 University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
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05 Feb 1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, New York
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05 Feb 1852 The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
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05 Feb 1855 British government of Palmerston forms
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05 Feb 1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
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05 Feb 1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
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05 Feb 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
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05 Feb 1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
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05 Feb 1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
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05 Feb 1869 The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
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05 Feb 1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
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05 Feb 1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
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05 Feb 1881 Phoenix, Az incorporates
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05 Feb 1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
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05 Feb 1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
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05 Feb 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco
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05 Feb 1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 seconds)
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05 Feb 1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
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05 Feb 1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
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05 Feb 1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
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05 Feb 1900 The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
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05 Feb 1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
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05 Feb 1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
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05 Feb 1904 American occupation of Cuba ends
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05 Feb 1909 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
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05 Feb 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
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05 Feb 1913 Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
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05 Feb 1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company
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05 Feb 1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St. NYC (demolished 1982)
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05 Feb 1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted
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05 Feb 1917 The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
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05 Feb 1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
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05 Feb 1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
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05 Feb 1918 Separation of church and state begins in the USSR
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05 Feb 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.
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05 Feb 1918 Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
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05 Feb 1919 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
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05 Feb 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
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05 Feb 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
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05 Feb 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
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05 Feb 1923 Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy
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05 Feb 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
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05 Feb 1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
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05 Feb 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
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05 Feb 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch / German boundary
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05 Feb 1936 National Wildlife Federation forms
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05 Feb 1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times, " released
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05 Feb 1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
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05 Feb 1937 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
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05 Feb 1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 seconds)
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05 Feb 1939 Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
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05 Feb 1940 Gen Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch Supreme Commander
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05 Feb 1940 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
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05 Feb 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to the Netherlands
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05 Feb 1941 World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
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05 Feb 1942 "Woman of the Year, " starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City
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05 Feb 1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore
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05 Feb 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt
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05 Feb 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
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05 Feb 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
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05 Feb 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 km/h (440 yd / 20.8 s)
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05 Feb 1945 British Premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
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05 Feb 1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
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05 Feb 1945 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
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05 Feb 1946 The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
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05 Feb 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland
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05 Feb 1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
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05 Feb 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
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05 Feb 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
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05 Feb 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
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05 Feb 1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City
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05 Feb 1953 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins
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05 Feb 1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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05 Feb 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
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05 Feb 1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
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05 Feb 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black Foreign Minister (Romania)
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05 Feb 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st President of United Arab Republic
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05 Feb 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
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05 Feb 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.
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05 Feb 1958 Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
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05 Feb 1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 455 performances
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05 Feb 1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide
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05 Feb 1962 Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed
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05 Feb 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
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05 Feb 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
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05 Feb 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure
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05 Feb 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.
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05 Feb 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
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05 Feb 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
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05 Feb 1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
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05 Feb 1967 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
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05 Feb 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
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05 Feb 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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05 Feb 1968 Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
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05 Feb 1969 "Turn-On, " debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
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05 Feb 1969 US population reaches 200 million
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05 Feb 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm and head coach of Redskins
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05 Feb 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting
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05 Feb 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours
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05 Feb 1971 Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
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05 Feb 1972 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
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05 Feb 1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
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05 Feb 1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage
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05 Feb 1972 Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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05 Feb 1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted
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05 Feb 1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
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05 Feb 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
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05 Feb 1974 British mine strike
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05 Feb 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
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05 Feb 1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 km/h
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05 Feb 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped
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05 Feb 1975 Riots break 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.
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05 Feb 1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
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05 Feb 1976 The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
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05 Feb 1977 "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67
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05 Feb 1977 "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56
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05 Feb 1977 "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40
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05 Feb 1977 "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98
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05 Feb 1977 "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91
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05 Feb 1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
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05 Feb 1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
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05 Feb 1977 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
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05 Feb 1977 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
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05 Feb 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
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05 Feb 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
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05 Feb 1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
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05 Feb 1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit
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05 Feb 1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
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05 Feb 1981 "Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances
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05 Feb 1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
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05 Feb 1981 Military jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
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05 Feb 1982 Chin A Sen ends term as President of Suriname
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05 Feb 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
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05 Feb 1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Neth
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05 Feb 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
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05 Feb 1984 New Zealand beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
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05 Feb 1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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05 Feb 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.
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05 Feb 1986 Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
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05 Feb 1987 Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for 1st time
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05 Feb 1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches
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05 Feb 1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
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05 Feb 1988 Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham
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05 Feb 1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs
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05 Feb 1988 Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
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05 Feb 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
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05 Feb 1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
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05 Feb 1991 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
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05 Feb 1991 All American Bowl ends after 14 years
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05 Feb 1991 Big East Football conference forms
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05 Feb 1991 Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
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05 Feb 1991 LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
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05 Feb 1992 Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case
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05 Feb 1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160
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05 Feb 1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th Director of CIA
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05 Feb 1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego, " debuts on Fox TV
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05 Feb 1994 Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
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05 Feb 1994 Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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05 Feb 1995 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13
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05 Feb 1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
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05 Feb 1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)
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05 Feb 1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
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05 Feb 1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
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05 Feb 1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
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05 Feb 1998 Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)
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05 Feb 2000 Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
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05 Feb 2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
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05 Feb 2008 A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
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