What happend on 5th February

04.02
06.02
2004

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

2004

23 Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. 21 bodies are recovered.

2003

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

2001

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announce that they have separated.

1999

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

1997

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

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

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

1991

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

1988

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