February 5

What happened that day?

• 2017: The New England Patriots win [Superbowl](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbowl) LI after coming back down 25 to win 34-28 in overtime. It is the first such overtime game in Superbowl history. Tom Brady wins 4th Super Bowl MVP award.
• 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: Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
• 1994: Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 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 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.
• 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: 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.
• 1958: Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• 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: SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
• 1918: Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
• 1917: The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
• 1917: The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• 1913: Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1909: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1852: The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
• 1849: University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
• 1818: Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1810: Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
• 1807: HMS Blenheim (1761)) and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
• 1783: In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
• 1782: Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
• 1778: South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• 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.
• 756: An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
• AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.