February 5
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1975
Riots break out 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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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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Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
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Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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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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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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A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
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New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.
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Cybercriminals initiate the Bangladesh Bank robbery, using the SWIFT network to fraudulently transfer $101 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account of Bangladesh Bank.
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Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
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United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
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Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.
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2016Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Bhutanese prince
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2002Jisung, South Korean rapper
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2002Taehyun, South Korean singer-songwriter
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2001Kim Min-ju, South Korean actress
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1997Patrick Roberts, English footballer
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1996Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer
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1995Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
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1993Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player
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1993Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player
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1992Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
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1992Neymar, Brazilian footballer
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1991Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
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