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HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 5th

• 1846: The first U.S. newspaper is published on the Pacific Coast (The Oregon Spectator)
• 1870: The first motion picture is shown to a theater audience (Philadelphia)
• 1881: The city of Phoenix Arizona first incorporates
• 1969: According to The Census Bureau, the U.S. population reaches 200 million
• 1983: Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie is brought to trial
• 1987: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,200 for first time
• 1988: A pair of indictments by Federal Grand Juries in Miami and Tampa Florida, are unsealed accusing Panama’s military leader, General Manuel Noriega, of bribery and drug trafficking
• 1993: Federal judge Kimba Wood, President Clinton’s expected choice for Attorney General, withdraws from consideration, because she had hired a baby sitter who was an illegal alien for seven years
• 1994: White separatist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in Jackson Mississippi of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 (he is sentenced to life in prison)
• 2002: A federal grand jury indicts John Walker Lindh, known in the media as the “American Taliban,”
• 2003: Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists – claims that later turned out to be false.
• 2006: Iran ends all voluntary cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• 2007: Astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested after driving 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando, Fla., to mount a bizarre attack on a romantic rival.

BORN ON THIS DAY — February 5th

• 1723: John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
• 1848: Belle Starr, outlaw
• 1900: Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill, US Ambassador)
• 1906: John Carradine,  actor
• 1907: Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)
• 1914: William S Burroughs, novelist
• 1917: Zsa Zsa Gabor,  actress
• 1919: Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician PM
• 1919: Melina Mercuri, actress
• 1919: Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt),  comedian/actor
• 1934: Hank Aaron, baseball player
• 1939: Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer
• 1941: Stephen J Cannell, TV producer
• 1942: Cory Wells, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night)
• 1942: Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback
• 1943: Charles Winfield, rock musician (Blood Sweat & Tears)
• 1944: Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
• 1948: Barbara Hershey,  actress
• 1948: Christopher Guest, actor
• 1948: David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
• 1962: Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• 1964:  Duff McKagan, rock musician (Guns N’ Roses)
• 1969: Bobby Brown, singer

DIED ON THIS DAY — February 5th

• 1881: Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
• 1941: Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of “Walzing Matilda” (b. 1864)
• 1972: Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1981: Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1991: Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
• 2007: Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (b. 1915)
• 2008: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)