What happend on 5th February

04.02
06.02
1988

Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.

1978

The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters ever to hit New England, forms.

1974

John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.

1972

Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

1971

Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.

1968

The Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War began.

1962

French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.

1961

The Sunday Telegraph publishes its first issue.

1958

A hydrogen bomb known as Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

1958

Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.