Operation Soap: The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force raids four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, arresting just under 300, triggering mass protest and rallies. Date: February 5, 1981 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1981 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: February 5, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in…
Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. Date: February 5, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This Day (Today)
Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. Date: February 5, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On This Day (Today)
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Date: February 5, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On This Day (Today)
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. Date: February 5, 1997 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1997 📅 On This Day (Today)
Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. Date: February 5, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. Date: February 5, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)
A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57. Date: February 5, 2008 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 2008 📅 On This Day (Today)
New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest. Date: February 5, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 2016 📅 On This Day (Today)