02-05-2005, 08:05 AM
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February 5th
1878 ~ Birthday of André Citroën, automobile pioneer.
1885 ~ King Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo as a personal possession.
1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launched United Artists.
1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete.
1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb known as Tybee Bomb was lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
1968 ~ The Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War began.
1982 ~ Pioneering budget airliner Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors.
1988 ~ Comic Relief held the first "Red Nose Day", which raised a £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.
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