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February 5th, 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	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	Event	Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaives, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
February 5th, 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	Event	Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
February 5th, 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	Event	Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
February 5th, 1974	Event	John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
February 5th, 1972	Event	Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
February 5th, 1971	Event	Apollo program: Apollo 14 MissionAlan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.

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