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February 5th, 2008	Event	A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
February 5th, 2008	Death	Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (born in ca. 1917)
February 5th, 2007	Death	Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (born in 1945)
February 5th, 2007	Death	Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983-1995) (born in 1930)
February 5th, 2006	Death	Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (born in 1930)
February 5th, 2006	Death	Franklin Cover, American actor (born in 1928)
February 5th, 2005	Death	Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (born in 1937)
February 5th, 2004	Event	Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, Englandied in Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
February 5th, 2004	Event	Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaives, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
February 5th, 2004	Death	John Hench, American animator (born in 1908)

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