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Thursday, 05 February 2026

2009

The United States Navy guided missile cruiser {{USS|Port Royal|CG-73|6}} runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

2008

A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

2004

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

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

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.

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.

1988

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

1976

The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.

1972

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

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